Dust Fireball shelf tool

Creates a large scale dust explosion that develops into a fireball as the simulation develops.

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Important Nodes
Learning from this example

This shelf tool sets up a sparse pyro simulation of a fireball-type explosion that expands out from the inside of a large dust explosion.

Pyro simulation in the viewport. Color space: ACES, Voxels Size: 0.04.

Pyro simulation rendered with Karma. Color space: ACES, Voxels Size: 0.04.

Important Nodes ¶

pyroburstsource

Sourcing for the main explosion is split into four sections, which all create specific shapes in the simulation. These sources all use Pyro Burst Source nodes.

Learning from this example ¶

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Change the location of fireball	Adjust the Translate parameters in the transform1 node.
Change the size of the explosion	Adjust Outward Expansion and Directional Expansion parameters in the Pyro Burst Source nodes.
Change the shape of the explosion and shockwave	Adjust the Shape Offset parameter in any of the Pyro Burst Source nodes to easily modify the shape of the explosion.
Adjust the expansion from flame	Adjust the Expansion Rate, Flame Range, and Flame Ramp parameters in the Flame Expansion section of the Shape tab on the pyrosolver1 node.

Dust Fireball shelf tool

Important Nodes ¶

Learning from this example ¶

Shelf tools

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