I can get a very nice smoke effect but nothing flame wise.
How can I make the cloud particles change color,glow intensity and so on with age ?
That should make my attempt at a realistic missile in flight possible
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How to color a rocket trails cloud?
I can get a very nice smoke effect but nothing flame wise.
How can I make the cloud particles change color,glow intensity and so on with age ?
That should make my attempt at a realistic missile in flight possible
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A rocket, or meteor will have flames before the smoke, so is that what you are trying to do?
If you look at the pic below, I made this trail using a basic particle cloud renderType, and just tweaked the colors/intensity in layers in post.
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Basically it's just cloud particles from a omini emitter at the appropriate emission rate. It's shaded with a
Here is a render of what I'm trying to do(no missile yet I'm just using a sphere for now)
It needs more tweaking(smoke color,lifespan,opacity etc) but overall if I could just get a small amount of flame then smoke I'd be happy. I thought about a second emmiter but my computer doesn't support hardware rendering so I can't render anything but blobby particles,spheres and clouds.
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I think it will get you exactly what you want
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