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Rendering Smoke without Volumetric Shaders in Blender 2.75

Community Reporter · August 15, 2015

Wayward Art Company writes:

This video shows a quick setup for rendering a smoke effect in Cycles without using volumetric shaders in Blender 2.75. Enjoy!

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7 responses

  1. Aclariel
    15 August 2015 at 14:57

    Very clever!
    I see a lot of projects were this could come in handy.
    If I would of known this a month ago, it would of save me do much time :)
    Thank you very much for this tutorial.
    Very well appreciated.

    Best regards, Aclariel.

    Reply
  2. name
    15 August 2015 at 15:08

    Sorry that i use this space to ask, but i don’t know where else i could do it. So is this official Blender nation facebook group?

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/880490151989030/

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    1. Bart
      15 August 2015 at 17:33

      No that’s not mine. This is the official BlenderNation page, there’s no group:

      https://www.facebook.com/pages/BlenderNation/141077829285198?ref=hl

      Reply
  3. Mine Name
    15 August 2015 at 18:35

    You can use a proper extapolation in the Graph Editor (insted Dope Sheet). You must select the proper node tile to animate it’s values.

    Reply
  4. kubo
    15 August 2015 at 20:57

    Brutal, that’s a totally neat trick.
    I love to try to make things phisically correct, but when you need something done you must know how to make things look right the faster the better.
    Thanks, I’m adding that trick to my hat.

    Reply
  5. bahtiyar
    15 August 2015 at 20:59

    Great one :) I really loved the way you prepared this.

    I can recommend you
    1 -to use geometry nodes position property and take x position of that instead of the picture you prepared in gimp for transparent sides.
    And same technique for upper and lower if you need too.

    2 – to use drivers for movement. so you can set the speed easily and animation length does not change or stop the movement.

    Thnx for perfect share.

    Reply
  6. PGTART
    16 August 2015 at 00:08

    Wow clever trick !

    Reply

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