Hi, I’ve just made these 3 fire balls :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx83fMWJb_U
It wasn’t really hard to make, but it really looks good.
What do you think of it.
Looks sweet! But not much like fire. It almost looks as if a softbody or a liquid of some sort. But it really does look good!
Protoplasm, more like.
Yes, you’re right not really like fire after all;
I used a sphere and I applied fractal to it several times, then for the material I used halo with a little bit of tweaking, I saw that in a tutorial a long time ago.
For the animation I used a wave modifier.
it may not look like fire, but it looks really REALLY cool. Can you post some more specific info on how to make them?
Step 1
Make a UV sphere “space bar -> add -> mesh -> uvsphere”
Step 2
Duplicate the uvsphere “shift + D-key”, and make the duplicated sphere a bit bigger than the first.
Step 3
give it a material, then go to Texture buttons(F6) and give it a “clouds” texture.
Step 4
Tab into edit mode with the big sphere we just created and gave a clouds texture to, and find in the Editing(F9) panel the “noise” button, press it several times, you will notice the sphere being deformed acording to the clouds texture.
Step 5
Go back to object mode and remove the clouds texture (just select “none”)
Step 6
Still with the big sphere, here are the material settings:
R = 1.000
G = 0.800
B = 0.000
sort of orange;
click on “Halo” and go to “shaders” panel, set “HaloSize” to 0.050 instead of 0.500
ste the alpha value to 0.350
Step 7
Still in object mode, add a wave modifier to the big sphere and tweak the “speed” and “height” attributes to get what you want.
I tried it too, but I just get (halo) dots on the places of the vertecis… What did I do wrong?
In fact halo dots are what you are supposed to get, but try add a subsurf modifier, it will increase the amount of vertices and it will look better i guess.
[EDIT]
I just tried to make something that looks more like fire, a ring that’s burning, the only problem is when the rotation is over it looks less like fire. Click on my signature to see the video