Hello,
I have tried to fake a volumetric smoke particle effect.
The smooth fade in and fade out were done by adding Alpha keys.
There has been applied a simple Clouds procedural texture and the smoke is Shaded Halo. The fire is not perfect but it also has the same Clouds texture applied. The Clouds textures OfsZ is slightly going up, it’s not very noticable.
Here is the file(320x240):
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/114/smoketest.avi
hey, that’s pretty good. I like it. Like you said, the flame doesn’t look as good as it could, but i really like the smoke. how did you animate it if its not particles?
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If possible can you post the blend for this because Iv been looking for something like this.
Its really good!
That’s a heck of smoke! It is one of the best I ever have seen in Blender! Like others, I would love to take a look at this .blend file!
yeah…that smoke is amazing…
I have nothing to add. Really nice effect. Hope to see the blend.
It isn’t volumetric, though. I saw one done with spheres as particles, faded off with normal mapped alpha. It was pretty sweet, and it was shaded, too.
Well yes, I can’t help that part.
Blender doesn’t actually support Volumetric stuff.
And this is still a fake.
But let’s not argue about that.
No, I meant done in blender. 
EDIT: I mean, you could probably do it, too. Cause your materials are pretty good and stuff as well.
I’ll try the spheres tecnique too.
Here was a second test, it was more like a failure cause Blender crashed and I had to set everything up in a bit shorter time, The smoke needs to be more dense.
(the image is from the .blend before the crash)
Download(640x480):
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/114/smoketest_2.avi
Very cool, I hope to see real volumetric in Blender sometime soon!