Flame particles

[Springheel]

One thing I notice with the new flame particles is that the smoke doesn't always face up. When you drop a torch, the flame properly orients itself upwards, but the smoke goes sideways.

 

This is the part that controls the smoke....I can't see anything obviously different that would affect that, but I don't know much about particles:

 

{

count 50

material textures/particles/barrelpoof

time 1.000

cycles 0.000

bunching 1.000

distribution rect 10.000 10.000 5.000

direction cone "0.000"

orientation view

speed "17.000" to "4.000"

size "5.500" to "13.000"

aspect "1.000"

randomDistribution 1

boundsExpansion 0.000

fadeIn 0.600

fadeOut 0.850

fadeIndex 0.000

color 0.500 0.500 0.500 0.400

fadeColor 0.270 0.270 0.270 0.000

offset 0.000 0.000 8.000

gravity world -3.000

}

[AluminumHaste]

Hmmm I haven't noticed this myself.

[Tels]

gravity is the paramter that controls this. (the sparks in my replacement particles had the same problem).

[AluminumHaste]

That's because in this case gravity is relative to particle emitter not world. Another possibility is that the gravity value is so high that the particles dissipate before local gravity can take over? I know for the snow particles that if you turn the emitter the particles come out relative to the emitter but then fall to the ground still.

 

EDIT: I take that back, I see the value is for Gravity world.... very strange.

[Arcturus]

I updated torchflame_new01 and torchflame_new01_small. I increased the gravity and set speed to zero. Also I had to lower the offset and change size of the smoke. It looks a bit different now.

[AluminumHaste]

I'm loving the new torch flames, very nice.

[Springheel]

It looks a bit different now.

 

Hmm, thanks for fixing the smoke so that it raises up. I have to be honest though, I'm really not a fan of the new look. It seems like a LOT of smoke for a relatively small flame; far more than the previous version. It also seems to be coming from too low on the flame, originating almost right from the torch base itself. Is it not possible to keep the old look but just have it oriented up all the time?

[Arcturus]

Smoke has to start low (offset needs needs to be small), otherwise it will look like this:

 

 

I increased the fade in number. See how it looks now. Check how it looks on different backgrounds.