Accept Parameters

Select the Type Properties dialog and press Accept. Press u until you are at the topmost level. Take a look at the rocket_assets Controls page. You now have an array of specific top-level parameters that can be used to control the animation of the rocket or affect its appearance.

Animate particles

Scrub the playbar to frame 4. Open the Particles tab of the Rocket asset and set the Smoke Start parameters to 0. ALT+LMB-click on the words Smoke Start to keyframe both fields. Set the playbar to frame 5 and set the Smoke Start parameter to 1 and keyframe again. Press Refresh Particles as you have just changed the particle system.

Test render

In the Viewer paner press tab > Render. This starts an operation that allows you to box select a region inside the Viewer pane and only this specific region will render. Scrub to frame 65 and test render.

Final render

When you are ready to make a final rendering, change the network to Outputs. Press tab > Mantra. Type into the Output Picture field $HIP/rocket.$F3.pic. This tells mantra to render to the render to the same directory that your .hip file is saved in ($HIP), and to name every image file rocket. $F3 will add the frame number to the image name with a padidng value of 3, so frame 1 will be called rocket.001.pic.

Click Frame Range to ensure that you render the enire sequence, not just the current frame. Also, you should click Override Default Resolution and set a specific resolution. It is recommended to render 320 x 243 on slower machines to lower render time, while faster ones could render out to 640 x 480.