Spaceship Thrusters effect

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I am wondering if anyone has any suggestion on how I could go about achieving a good spaceship thrusters effect for my shot?

I was thinking about doing a pyro sim but maybe that's overkill. I'm looking to achieve mostly a bright glow with some movement that conveys the massive energy being output.

The Prometheus engines are a good visual reference for what I'm going for, they're not overly bright but still present with a good amount of definition. I don't want anything that looks too cartoony or simply like a just put a point light in place and turned the brightness to 1000.

I would love any insight, especially from anyone who has tackled this already with good results.

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paint area
scatter
particles scatter on geometry
pyrooo
particles scale and coverage scale should be too low
voxel size should be high
more fuel
also turn thrusters as static object so pyro wont go out

u can make better than this
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rough, but should give you some ideas.

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rough, but should give you some ideas.

Thank you Matt, looks cool. So what exactly is the Attribute Wrangle's function?

P.S.

Been toying with the Pyro sim also getting some decent results after some tweaking. I'm sure there's a more efficient way to achieve this result than what I have on my node tree, but if anyone wants to take a look here it is:

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Thank you Matt, looks cool. So what exactly is the Attribute Wrangle's function?

Ramping the position noise and density noise vertically from no effect to full effect.
Edited by mestela - June 6, 2021 22:17:49
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