Want to know how to do this?

Want to be able to create realistic smoke and/or fire? Here’s how:

1. In Blender, there are many ways of doing things….usually. Not in this case. To create realistic smoke, one must (see below image) start from a blank cube. Yes, that’s right – a cube.

1. Subdivide the cube. (Subdivide is found in “Mesh Tools.”)
2. Next, distort the vertices by clicking on “Fractal,” below Subdivide. This tool is a nifty little thing used to randomly subdivide an object.
3. Bring the amount to 10% for now, just for starters. Repeat twice.
4. Exit the editing toolbar and go to the “Shading” area. It’s the little button with the sphere on it.
5. Now add a material to the object, and depending on the version of Blender that you have, click on “halo,” and if that doesn’t do anything or if you can’t find it, then…..
6. Click on the “Object” button next to the “Shading” button. It has a little gray three-point arrow image on it. (If you couldn’t find a “halo” button in the Shading area, be glad, because that is one less step you have to take!)
7. Click on the “Physics” button to the right. (It’s the orange fire-like image.)

1. If you were able to find the halo button, then you have to take a few more actions before everything works, or else I suggest updating your version of Blender!
2. From there, I will take a close. I think that by now it’s all just common sense. We’ve gotten through the tough part, but now it’s pretty simple. You can texture your fire, or make more vertices. (Right now there are only 1000, you can increase or reduce the amount.)
3. Then once you have mastered the art of creating smoke in Blender, you can do cool stuff like below!

If you wish to learn more on how I made the 9/11 image, or the spaceship image above, I will be posting some more tutorials soon!!!!

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