I’ve tried extremely hard to replicated results I achieved using turbulancefd in blender. I never even come close.
I really wanted to create a tutorial showing folks how you can make photoreal explosions with the blender smoke simulation, as I’d achieved a few half realistic renders, but after much effort and little results, I’m callin’ it quits.
I’m curious if anyone else believes that the blender smoke sim should be turned into a fire sim.
If you’re doing something unbelievable, you need as much believability in every aspect of your production as possible. The blender smoke sim is great for smoke, but I’d love fire.
It would save me and my neighbors a good deal of danger =)
That said, here’s a big image I’m usin’ to break down fire sims I’ve used.
Yea Paul and Gottfried (didn’t you work on the smoke sim BTW?), I totally agree that realism is not possible at the moment. I tried so so hard to do an explosion, but I ran into two huge limitations:
Although the smoke looked good, the fire transition part had the terrible jagged edges you mentioned:
Second, the color could not be defined by time, only by density. This is super important because in explosions the inside is what is on fire, while the outside is more smoke. This is impossible to replicate using density.
