Creating Twirling Smoke

Here's a short tutorial that'll explain how to create some rather realistic twirling smoke.

Meltingman writes:

Hello, you can find my last tutorial "twirl of smoke" made with Blender and Soft-bodys. The blenderclan.org made the translate in English and there it is at your disposal.

Here's a sample of the final result:

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35 Responses to “Creating Twirling Smoke”  

  1. 1 Pavel Siska Edit Link

    Great effect!!!

  2. 2 AniCator Edit Link

    The twirl is realistic in the beginning but later on it looks like it's just moving around a bit, which twirling smoke should not unless something plays with the air.

  3. 3 Durden Edit Link

    Whoaaa… this is really cool!

  4. 4 Hannu Edit Link

    Nice tutorial, but I think there is one error in the material settings:

    "decrease the Gloss to 0 in order to skip some useless computation"

    I'm using 245.15 and the smaller the gloss the slower it gets.

  5. 5 Zecc Edit Link

    Took me a while until I realized that was a cigarette butt and not some sort of snail. :)

  6. 6 Johan Edit Link

    I thought the smoke was rising out of an elf hat.

    BTW- Does Blender particles have self-shadowing yet?

  7. 7 Rakunko Edit Link

    softbodies for smoke cool~
    i hope some devoplorers are watching this and thinking of some python code for some wizards lol

  8. 8 Dekker3D Edit Link

    blender particles can self-shadow if you use a mesh as the visualization, with trashadow on.

  9. 9 Agent A.L Edit Link

    Suspended by moderators?
    I don't speak French but guess it says there that the file was removed. I cannot download that tutorial.

  10. 10 Seb Pelan Edit Link

    Same here. Mirror please? :)

  11. 11 Zxayant Edit Link

    Link is dead! Did anyone download before the link went dead and can mirror please?

  12. 12 ByronK Edit Link

    I really like the video and recognized the cigarette butt right away. It could work in lots of situations like a hot beverage as well. Unfortunately, I am too late and it is off line for the tutorial. I hope it returns, as it seems like a great technique. Thanks for the post.

  13. 13 ZZ Edit Link

    "This website is suspended by the moderator team of personnal website

    If you are the "owner", you have received a mail who explain to you the reasons of this suspension. If you want to restart your website, please contact us."

    (Sorry I'm french and pretty bad in translation french > english)

  14. 14 claas Edit Link

    that is too bad that the site is down …

  15. 15 claas Edit Link

    anybody could send me the pdf?

    info@ckbrd.de

    thx

    claas

  16. 16 ebrain Edit Link

    HERE IS THE MIRRORED FILE : http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/perso/twirlsmoktuto.pdf

    Please apologize :)

  17. 17 Zxayant Edit Link

    Merci! ;)

  18. 18 Dam60 Edit Link

    lien vers le tuto/link for tutorial:
    http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/perso/twirlsmoktuto.pdf

  19. 19 meltingman Edit Link

    thank you for comments and to thank you for the Mirrored link Ebrain :-).

  20. 20 ebrain Edit Link

    Here is the FRENCH mirrored link : http://blenderclan.tuxfamily.org/perso/tutfumee-fr.pdf

  21. 21 Bart Edit Link

    Links updated. Thanks guys!

  22. 22 ebrain Edit Link

    Thanks Bart ;)

  23. 23 MARTS Edit Link

    Great melti ;)

  24. 24 Elam Edit Link

    The video is still there. You just need to go to the URL directly.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csKRETgZIGI

  25. 25 Jun8 Edit Link

    its wonderful & great
    thanks

  26. 26 James Edit Link

    Wow. Not bad at all. That would be perfectly convincing withing a more complex scene (which I think is a definition of 'correct' in CG).

  27. 27 CrazyJack Edit Link

    realy awesome

  28. 28 kit89 Edit Link

    Hmm…. Interesting.

  29. 29 ArtIsLight Edit Link

    pretty nice. that may be useful. thanks. God bless

  30. 30 Zxayant Edit Link

    btw. there's a LOT of interesting stuff on that site. Too bad it's all in French, which is a language i don't master. :(

  31. 31 NathanKP Edit Link

    Not the best swirling smoke that I've ever seen, but pretty good.

    NathanKP - Inkweaver Review

  32. 32 TonyB Edit Link

    Could you post a blend please ? For some reason I can't reproduce the effect from the tutorial.

  33. 33 Cristo Edit Link

    TonyB: I'm with you on this one. I followed this tutorial step-by-step and I am still getting this problem:

    - The pink colour of the material is still showing in the renders and so are the shadows.

    I am trying different options to not show the colour, etc. but have had no luck yet.

    If anyone has an idea on this solution, could you please post it?

    Thank you.

  34. 34 meltingman Edit Link

    ah yes, sorry
    for rendering ray of the shadow requires:

    Enable material in the florl> trace shadow.
    and of course> activate Ray panel render.

    I post a blend within 2 days ahead (I'm busy with my music).

    + +

  35. 35 meltingman Edit Link

    hello

    juste the blend :

    [url=http://hostit.warrenberberd.org/dl.php?file=775f07f5dfa5d5a7eb4ae9b37d85ee9d][img]http://imghost.warrenberberd.org/2008/05/24/Thumbs/775f07f5dfa5d5a7eb4ae9b37d85ee9d-M.blend[/img][/url]

    [url=http://hostit.warrenberberd.org/dl.php?file=775f07f5dfa5d5a7eb4ae9b37d85ee9d]twirleofsmok.blend[/url]

    the tutorial is just the method. the blend is a little more complete.

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