Candle render Challenge (all render engines)

brodie

Andre, very nice. I tried out that same flame material w/ about equal results. It seems like the sample image that was there with the mxm looked better somehow. I couldn't quite figure out what the difference was...

love that wallpaper!

-Brodie

solo

Another Vue render, with line image of SU model.

boofredlay

Wow, that is great.

troyhome

@andre51 said:

This one was also rendered in Maxwell. The flame is from the online materials library.

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how do you do the flame? do you make a surface and apply the material to it and it just comes out like that, or do you model an actual flame and apply the material to that?

brodie

You can just apply the texture to a rectangle. The material does the rest. It's basically a clip mapped emitter if I recall.

-Brodie

andre51

Hi Troyhome

Unfortunately this material works only 2d, ie I had to have 2 faces to cast the light in 2 directions.

Would like to try and map to a flame model some time.

cheers

Andre

solo

How about this? Done in Vue.

No post processing flame is rendered.

brodie

I'm so-so on the candle but nice flame!

-Brodie

solo

Another animation render (last one I promise) to see how the flame works at different angles.

EarthMover

Really nice Pete! Is that an animated .gif used on an alpha plane?

solo

I used a cropped .avi on an alpha plane.

EarthMover

Could you supplement the .avi with a small omni light as it doesn't appear to have any light casting quality?

solo

I have a small omni present, I could bump up the multiplier for more glow.

nomeradona

i love the animated flame pete...

Eulgrand

This dancing flame is really cool

EscapeArtist

I'd love to enter this challenge; but darnit, my windows PC took a dump yesterday(watch out for the latest nVidia system drivers, at least on the 780i) due to corrupted USB drivers and I can't get into the comp at all thanks to only having USB mouse and keyboard.

Not to mention my monitor picked today to die.

Complaints, I has them! Don't close the challenge yet ! That is, unless there's a way to get Sketchup working on my Linux laptop!

MrPlanet

My Indigo gave me a great day to stop working
Anyone know the solution?

majid

hi all
this is my entry: SU+ KT (flame blure PS)

Frederik

Really nice one, Majid...!!

MrPlanet

Here is mine. I finally got my Indigo working, I think the flame could be better. My 3rd render.