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Has anyone been able to get a decent looking candle flame with light emission and flame texture working yet... so many nodes, so many nodes...

IMO the flame geometry would be a poor emitter - so use a flame geometry and setup a non-emitter material (think there is a flame material in the livedb). Then add a small sphere or cube around the flame, set it up as an emitter, and set it's opacity to 0.

Paul

Sounds like it actually might work.... see lateral thinking... and knowing the software. Thanks Paul

This is something I did earlier base on what Paul and wim posted. Is this close to what you're looking for Deane?

Yup exactly... now send me the nodes...

RGUS wrote:Yup exactly... now send me the nodes...

Here's what my "flame" looks like:


...and the invisible "ball" that's the real light source:


Flame:


Ball:

Thanks for that... couldn't see the wood for the trees for a while there.

RGUS wrote:Thanks for that... couldn't see the wood for the trees for a while there.

Just be sure to set neither on virtual fire.

Am I seeing that correctly?
The flame AND the ball are both light emitters?, isn't that a bit of overkill? Although the result is pretty lifelike.

I achieved a pretty decent fire effect while setting a 2D-sprite (essentially just a one sided pane with a transparency map and a texture on top of it) to Diffuse and added a orange-reddish RGB color emission to it.

You can see the result here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bw-1651cf0d2f7 ... 495590.jpg

Might be a bit less render intensive due to there being only light source. Hope this helps!

TRRazor wrote:Am I seeing that correctly?
The flame AND the ball are both light emitters?, isn't that a bit of overkill? Although the result is pretty lifelike.

I achieved a pretty decent fire effect while setting a 2D-sprite (essentially just a one sided pane with a transparency map and a texture on top of it) to Diffuse and added a orange-reddish RGB color emission to it.

You can see the result here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/bw-1651cf0d2f7 ... 495590.jpg

Might be a bit less render intensive due to there being only light source. Hope this helps!

Very nice render! But...IMO the fire looks unrealistic. It's too bright and that's the problem with using only the 'flame-fire' as the only emitter. What I do is set the intensity of the flame to look right and control how 'bright' I want the light to cast with the ball emitter. Again, thats just my opinion.