Explosion barbells (attempt at volumetric explosions in Blender)

Artwork Blender Tests
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http://gallery.mudpuddle.co.nz/view_photo.php?full=1&set_albumName=kansas15&id=0320_G
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After chugging at this for a week, I finally managed to make a decent volumetric explosion that can be raytraced and can cast shadows.

Used a build with soft ray shadows for this as SSS didn’t cut it. Main thing was textured planes and textured lamps

Only postpro I did was ugly noise removal in the Blender compositor and sharpening in a paint program (which could’ve also been done in the compositor). Lighting, texturing, and all that was done in BI. I say noise removal because the ray shadows would need a good amount of samples to avoid making parts of it very noisy, and that would increase render times.

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Nice job! Animation? :wink:

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Unfortunately rendertimes are too long for an animation, this is mainly for stills with the rendertime, that is unless someone had a big renderfarm to render on.

Believe me, a good explosion that can be raytraced and cast shadows makes clouds look easy.