Im trying to re-create a candle flame , just right now I am looking at the animation / construction. So far I have gone along the lines of a revolved nurbs curve creating a simple flame. As there is no softbody deadicated solver I was going to head along the lines of making the flame a cloth object and then adding a force like noise to the object. is this the sort of direction I want to be heading or is there a better path I should take ..

R

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=3271&hl= [forums.odforce.net]

Here's a cool thread on odforce where some neat POPs are used. Hope it helps.

cheers agentex an interesting link. out of interest though the POP shape match node used in DOPs is extremly interesting. As you can define a emitter using a POP Object and then using a SOP GEO you can define a particle goal , then merge both those nodes into a POP ShapeMatch in DOPS, I was thinking that if I could somehow refence this in POP's I could have forces effect a tongue of flame

much like a tutorial I found here

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/candle.html [thegnomonworkshop.com]

Ive had a dig around and the sofbody POP looks just the ticket

R