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28-06-2004
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Candle flame.
OK I am looking at making a candle flame to put on the table in that Graveyard scene I did (It's in the WIP Forum)
So it's not a close up and does not need to be animated (Animated flames are all I can find on net)
I was wondering if I just made the shape of a flame in Nurbs say from a streched sphere, and applied a "ramp shader" [Somehow??] to make it look like the different shades on a flame? is this how it's done?
BTW - I looked for a shader someone may have already done on another 3D site, but only found 'fire' shaders. not really a candle - so that's why I thought the 'ramp' may work if set right...?
Any Ideas ?
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Very simple approach
I know you have posted it long ago, and I imagine you have already figured out some way to do this candle.
I only wanted to show an idea i had long ago too when I was dealing with Maya for the first months and I wanted to model a flame of a candle. I didn't know nothing about dynamics effects or particles, so I did what came to my mind at that time.
For the flame, I used 3 polygon spheres with lambert materials each one setted with different colours: Blue, orange and yellow. The yellow one was streched (its geometry) to look like the shape of a candle flame. Then I applied a glow effect with hidden source on every material and positioned the spheres in an appropriate manner.
I think it was very simple, since it was not convincing as a real flame, and since it wasn't animated with dynamics. But I think just looked nice.
Well, hope this simple idea can be useful someway...
See ya.
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Thanks Scraggy
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Dunno about you guy's in the rest of the world but it's July the 7th here
Just noticed......
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Sounds good, but have no idea how to do it .
Thanks Scraggy
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