Node problem while trying to make a fireball

I am trying to make this fireball and I need to change the nodes’ colors in order to give it the fire trail and smoke effect. This is what I have set up as nodes, but it doesn’t work for some reason. Can anybody help?


I forgot to mention that the life span of a particle is 15 frames.

Works for me but its cycles only.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/input/particle_info.html?highlight=particle%20info

Yeah, I’m with evee

Not gonna work in Eevee unfortunately.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/shader_nodes/input/particle_info.html

Discussion on alternatives:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/k357kg/is_there_any_alternative_for_particle_info_node/

The forum has some good suggestions, but the person that has the problem said that they still haven’t solved the problem. The conversation started like a year ago and he said it 15 days ago.

You can change the color based on the location of an empty.
…For some reason file upload is not working but I am trying this site.

Particle_Burn.blend

I’d go with such an approach, try to find a parameter that Eevee supports that fakes/approximate the particle age.

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Yeah, I was thinking about it, and thought I could drive it with frame number, but then settled on that.

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