Flaming Ball
Film/TV

This project is the third of a series on improving the look of smaller scale fire simulations, that is based on the 2022 Siggraph Presentation, Sexy Fires Will Not Burn Your Hands.

The file demonstrates the usage of the Flame with Smoke applied on a static torch (represented by a ball). The aim of this setup however is rather experimental since it tries to achieve developing flames on the wind side of the torch which are able to swirl around the object; something that is not widely considered for touch fire simulations.

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Asset Type
Scene File | HIP
Published
Jan. 11, 2023
Terms of Use
Standard License
Created in
Houdini 19.5
Categories
Pyro FX
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CREATED BY

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ATTILA TOROK

Attila Torok is a London based FX TD working for SideFX. He has started out as a SideFX internship student after which he worked for Double Negative on projects like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Godzilla. Before coming back to SideFX he spent 4 years at ILM, where next to a list of movies like Doctor Strange, Avengers: Infinity War, Ready Player One, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, he was building and maintaining tools for particle simulations, deformable and tearable rigid body simulations and for pyro used throughout the company.

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COMMENTS

  • Khikmatillo 2 years, 6 months ago  | 

    Hi, Thank you for sharing files, but I have a question, in default pyrosolver, there is no "Fuel" in Fields tab, how can i reach this ?

  • magbhitu 5 months, 3 weeks ago  | 

    these files should just be taken down if they're not going to be updated for newer versions of Houdini - because they just don't work.

  • baszermaszer 1 month, 2 weeks ago  | 

    You will NOT see amazing super-optimized flames burning on your viewport in a couple seconds!
    Forget this: nodes are optimized for large datacenter Hollywood render jobs. Won't even budge on poor little people's measly computers. Tried to set voxel sizes to 0.2, then started file caching, but wouldn't even progress to second frame without screaming ventilators. :D :D Needs an industry professional to simplify these into something usable for game development (you wish), which would be is demoable on PCs. (In your dreams!) :D
    Its faint smoke connected to otherwise super-fast AXIOM even heavily LAGS on Urban Bradesko's PC sporting a 3090. :D He can't even play this realtime in AXIOM the framerate is so bad, he shows it on Mplay. But this is NOT your super simple candle flame at all. This is ridiculous. There are much better flame generating tutorials on YT for game development. Avoid this EYECANDY at all cost if you are just learning and expect to use this in your game. :D

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