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Man!!! this place is full of dragons.  A lot of activity after a long gap.

I better find a protected place to watch the imminent dragon war.

Good luck bravehearts.

Good one johnar.  If it is not too much to ask, can I have the zip for the tutorial.  For some reason, I will not be able to download the youtube video.

How big is the file size?

However, if you cannot, thats perfectly fine.

Neirao:  Good workaround and nice result for the fire.  As far as the rocket trail goes, a better result can be obtained if you apply 2 different materials i.e. fire and smoke.

Rellik420:  I think the graphics are pretty self explanatory.  However, I will try to explain it like this.

When we export the terranim8or fire project to an anim8or file, you get an object, which replicates itself into a number of copies in scene mode and all these objects move in a scripted manner in predefined paths to give us a flame effect.  However, if you look at the orientation and paths of these objects they move in one single plane only.  So, the trick is to alter the plane and orientation of these objects in scene mode by rotating them so that they do not move only in one plane, but rather scatter and overlap each other.

For interested viewers, here is my attempt at realistic fire some months back.

Hooorah!!!  Thanks all for your encouragement.  Congratulations to simon, floyd, and Kubazz.

It feels great to win, especially if you have spent hours getting the desired result, almost gave up, gathered steam again, and made it just in the nick of time.

I feel more people should participate in the challenges.

Headwax nice to see you back.

Thanks Jdez.

It was  a relatively lengthy project.  The models are not rigged, so posing was tricky.

The rendering was the lengthiest part and made me eventually to tone down everything.

I did not want to miss this challenge anyhow.

Nice render andy-rich.

My suggestion will be some older version of 3ds max.  You can get it second hand.

It is an incredible software and comes packaged with mental ray.

Most impressive thing about 3ds max is the availability of huge resources and toturials on the net.  The tutorials that come with the package or available on its official web site for free download are enough to learn the program fairly quickly.

I was stunned to see how quickly it rendered a sphere of fur.

Here is my final entry