Tips for Curling, Swirling, Twisting and Twirling Smoke?

[joescarr]

Hi,

Am looking for help creating continuous loop-de-loop twirling & swirling of smoke.... want it to keep its momentum.... like the Vortex spacewarp.... but traveling along with the smoke as it moves.... e.g. inertia....

Thanks,
Joe

[amelnychuk]

Hey man,

The way I do this kind of stuff is use geometry and particles to control the velocites...its tricky

also you can make the custom forces....soon as I have time I want to be able to set the velocities based on a spline...sort of like path follow. In that fume maxscript thing.

Hope this helps man.....

[joescarr]

thanks, Andrew

yeah, tried geo and particles, and was thinking of trying to work out something with a Fume script... but sadly no dev time - last minute shot. Am going to try a few things and then give a go in RF 5 just for comparison sake...

if any other input or suggestions, please feel free!

thanks!

[Intrinsia]

I don't know if this is the kind of thing you are after but I was playing with some swirl effects earlier this year. I'd be happy to share the files if needed.

http://vimeo.com/9156666

[amelnychuk]

Dude adding an emitter that dumps cold temperature in to the grid. Have your smoke hot, then just cold "air", really stirs shit up mad styles. Ill post apreview soon