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From: Adrian Onsen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Radial Fire Effect...
To: Brenden Mecleary <[e-mail]>
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On Sat, 26 Aug 1995, Brenden Mecleary wrote:
>     Here's my idea...create a sphere with the diameter you want.  Make it
> perfectly round.  Move the sphere so that the top of it is at y=0.  Cut off the
> bottom of the sphere using either points or polygons selection method, and name
> the surfaces for all the polygons ("Fire", "Burning", whatever pleases you).
>     Go into layout and load up that object.  Set the color that you desire for
> the fire at the outside ring (the bottom of an upright flame) to something like
> bright yellow (assuming you have normal colored fire, that is).  Then go into
> the texture menu for color.  Set a darker orangey color there for the tops of
> the flames.  Next, go to the texture menu for transparency.  Set the
> transparency value to 100% and give it a falloff so that it goes about halfway
> down the sphere.  Assign it a small velocity (.1 on the Y axis maybe), so it
> will look better if you animate it.  Go back into the color texture menu and
> assign a falloff that is twice that of the transparency, and a texture center
> that is halfway down the hemisphere.  Give that a bit of velocity, too.  Save
> that and test render it.  If you need it to be perfectly flat, just stretch it
> to .000001 on the Y axis.  Whew!  Hope that helps!  If you don't understand (I

    That's something I never thought of (but I understand what you mean)
I'll give that a try, and let you know how it turns out...

        Thanx a lot!

                          Adrian Onsen
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