candle light
 

hi there guys and girls!

i need help with my scene. i would like to create candle. ive already created the model but now... how to create the light/fire? hope u understand my suck english.

ive tried with different materials... but nothing... maybe i should use particles?

please HELP... i will really appreciate it...
maybe u could point me to some tutorial?

thx

v.

Newtek has one here that may help you - http://www.lightwave3d.com/contests/...app/index.html

Here is a great tut for a flame if you adjust it a little you can get a great candle out of it.

http://hometown.aol.com/mebek19/flame.html

What I did when I made a candle flame (it was a long time ago so I may miss something) was make an object that has a flame shape, meta formed it a lot so it has many segments, applied gradiants and procedurals to the color and transparancy, and as for animating, I used procedurals as a displacement map.

Here is the way it looked, I know it's not a very good picture (remember, it was some time ago) but it's just to show the resaults of the candle. (I also added a volumetric point light.)

thanks a lot for the answers to my question!

thank you all for the urls and ideas.

this forum rocks! just hope we will get even more users here...

v.