Simulate and Render Smoke and Fire in Blender Cycles

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1. Rantanen Petri

   15 June 2018 at 18:35

   Thanks!

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2. Fritz1956

   23 June 2018 at 23:28

   Very cool Steve. Great looking fire! Thanks for that tutorial.

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3. Stephen Norrington

   3 September 2018 at 16:58

   hi Steve, great tutorial, thanks, an excellent result, I’m using your node setup to create flames for a movie – I don’t think you mentioned anything about your values for properties > geometry > volume sampling > step size and max steps – these have a huge impact on the final result – defaults are step size 0.1 and max steps 1024 – are those the values you used? – best, Stephen Norrington

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   1. Steve Lund

      3 September 2018 at 17:09

      I believe I left those settings on default, I did some experimenting, and when using de-noisier the results where so close that it didn’t warrant the extra rendering time you get changing those settings.

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      1. Stephen Norrington

         4 September 2018 at 17:50

         thanks, good to know – another question: do the overall dimensions of the domain and/or its scale (applied or unapplied) affect the resolution of the sim or are domain divisions a standalone grid that gets subdivided the same amount irrespective of the size of the domain – in other words, are domain division sizes determined by domain size or are they independent and “outside” the sim with the domain “overlaid” on them – I’m having a hard time getting blockiness out of my sims even though I’m working at 128 domain divisions, no matter whether I use a tiny domain or a huge one, not sure why – SN

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