Creating Twirling Smoke

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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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    • Pavel Siska

      Great effect!!!

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      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.

    • Durden

      Whoaaa… this is really cool!

    • Hannu

      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.

    • Zecc

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

    • Johan

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

      BTW- Does Blender particles have self-shadowing yet?

    • Rakunko

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

    • http://dekker3d.awardspace.com/blog/ Dekker3D

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

    • Agent A.L

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

    • http://www.3dgestudio.com Seb Pelan

      Same here. Mirror please? :)

    • Zxayant

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

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      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.

    • ZZ

      “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)

    • claas

      that is too bad that the site is down …

    • claas
    • http://www.blenderclan.org ebrain

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

      Please apologize :)

    • Zxayant

      Merci! ;)

    • Dam60

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

    • meltingman

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

    • http://www.blenderclan.org ebrain

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

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Links updated. Thanks guys!

    • http://www.blenderclan.org ebrain

      Thanks Bart ;)

    • MARTS

      Great melti ;)

    • Elam

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

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

    • Jun8

      its wonderful & great
      thanks

    • James

      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).

    • CrazyJack

      realy awesome

    • kit89

      Hmm…. Interesting.

    • ArtIsLight

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

    • Zxayant

      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. :(

    • http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com NathanKP

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

      NathanKP – Inkweaver Review

    • TonyB

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

    • Cristo

      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.

    • meltingman

      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).

      + +

    • http://melting.perso.orange.fr meltingman

      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.

    • http://wickes.webs.com Papasmurf

      Merci monsieur. tres bon technique. (at least I hope that’s French!).