Comments on: Realistic Smoke Coming to Blender?

By: Pedro

Pedro — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:51:26 +0000

i m trying to compile the open source in my mac but i cant… can anyone help me?

By: Charon

Charon — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:45:48 +0000

Can't stop watching it. Amazing!

By: Lars

Lars — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:26:38 +0000

It looks very nice… BUT!

- The wavelet turbulence makes all the turbulence look the same.. no variation, just the same uniform turbulence look all over the simulation. I hope its very tweakable when/if implemented

- It won't look good anyway without a decent volumetric rendering engine that handles shading and shadowing properly. (When is such a thing coming to blender?)

By: Sergeant Oreo

Sergeant Oreo — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:36:05 +0000

I really am quite amazed at the intellect of programmers,
especially the ones that work on Blender. They give us virtual
tools with which to attempt to simulate and re-create the real world
with more creativity.

Thank you all Blender developers, especially Nils Thürey and Daniel Genrich!

By: redbyte

redbyte — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:34:43 +0000

I've got mixed feeling about those videos.

At first my jaw dropped, my eyes were peeled to the screen and I started drooling.

But then I got kinda sad, because I know sometimes new features like this never gets implented. Kinda like how a new cancer remedy hits news pages and then we never hear of it again.

I guess you could argue that I should get off my arse and join the developing team to help out. And you'd be right there. So I'll shut up :P

By: DramaKing

DramaKing — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:33:25 +0000

I never thought that fluid sims could be used for smoke. This is something that I could really use!

By: ysvry

ysvry — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:50:50 +0000

smoke is nice but i rather have caustics, I also see they still havent learned that ".MOV IS BAD " ;P

By: free_ality

free_ality — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:18:45 +0000

I watched these vids just a couple weeks ago! Wow, it would be pretty amazing to see this in Blender, really smart stuff(haha, can you tell I'm not very algorithm savvy?).

By: Djfuego

Djfuego — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:17:35 +0000

Holy Smoke Batman!

That is an incredible simulation algorithum.. It looks so real.

By: Eggyolk

Eggyolk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:59:11 +0000

Looks long way from finished, but hey. it's Nils. It'll improve. btw, can you make it light the evniroment to, >.> we really need that. I can continue my vertex copy based area lights, but it's not as good. or is lightcuts bringing that to us? nyway, it'd also make it a strong tool competing with FUMEFX and Afterburn. nice work on farthsays to. it's great for when you don't need a massive long calc fire effect, just a good candle or something.