Tutorial: Mix Smoke of Different Colors

Bart · January 29, 2011

BlenderDiplom writes:

If you ever wanted to know how to mix smoke of different colors in Blender 2.5, here’s a simple howto. This is the first part of my series of tutorials for Nion’s excellent Blender effects. Preview video and tutorial after the jump!
The effect is based around a voxel data texture whith the heat values of the the smoke as source. This tutorial assumes that you are already familiar with the smoke simulation in Blender 2.5. You can also download the finished blendfile.

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Tutorial: Mix Smoke of Two Different Colors

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.

14 responses

Nathaniel

29 January 2011 at 07:20

Good to see some quality smoke sim tutorials popping up!

I used the same technique a few months ago to get this result: http://vimeo.com/17022333

Chaos

29 January 2011 at 08:30

I can’t see nothing! what’s happening?

Brian Lockett

29 January 2011 at 09:10

Short but sweet! Now I’ve gotta try!

SaphireS

29 January 2011 at 13:31

Very nice! But it’s not a videotutorial, which is good since I like the good old html tutorials. ;)

Charon

29 January 2011 at 13:50

Very beautiful!

Scott

29 January 2011 at 13:59

Thanks for the plug, Bart! I never thought I would get Blendernation fame with the very first tutorial on my new site :)

Moolah

29 January 2011 at 16:34

Scott, this is really neat tutorial… without an hour of mumbling on a microphone! :)
I like this type of tuts because the hardest part for the Smoke Sim is experiment things. It’s hard to find necessary values and clues because we don’t have wiki on the Smoke Simulator yet.