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Why don't I see the fire of a smoke simulation I instanced in another scene?

I've made a fire sim in one scene. When I instance the collection containing that sim in another scene, I don't see the fire show up. Is there something special I need to do to make that show up? Is ...
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Fire collision object

I am working in EEVEE and I set up a fire simulation. I am trying to figure out though, is there a way to have my fire wrap around an object? I need it to collide with what is above it and wrap around ...
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Can't seem to bake fire animation?

I am new to baking and animation in general, but I was in the process of trying to add a basic fire/smoke animation in Blender 2.82. In the process, I create my smoke domain (using quick smoke) and ...
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Blender 2.8 - Weird experience with smoke domain

I hope someone can help me with this weird issue. I'm trying to create a sphere that emits fire, like the sun. I've followed this tutorial. This is what it should look like: However, as soon as I ...
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Explosions and fireflies / dots in Blender 2.8 (already followed all tutorial without results)

Good morning everyone, I'm literally ready to pay who will be able to solve my problem. here is the original file of the explosion. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBb2ctIG_OQ5qh7bpMSTUFcNI_E1LTCq/...
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EXR color difference to PNG

To avoid the problems that PNG has with fire Transparency, I exported the images in EXR format, but when I compare them to the PNG counterpart, the colours in the EXR image are way to blown out. Why ...
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Too much smoke compared to the source mesh size

so I'm doing a scene with an F14 shooting two rockets. For a better result and for realism purposes I decided to also add a smoke simulation, but when I added it the results are this: I tried to ...
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Problems with Transparency when rendering with Volumetric shaders

When I render it in viewport then it looks normal: For the fire, I just youse a normal Principled Volum shader that is plugged into Volume of the material Output. I render with two layers one for the ...
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why i cant see smoke effect?

I am beginner to the blender, have just 1-month experience I never tried any simulation but now I tried smoke effect but I can't get any smoke I have seen youtube tutorials, I followed the same but ...
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Fire vfx (by route of Quick Smoke) won't work: not matter what I do nothing appears

Following along with BlenderGuru's tutorials. I got smoke to work using QuickSmoke and making sure domain was selected, not flow, and baked it. Works perfectly! Only roadbump was oddly bake material ...
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Rendering Flame annimation on transparent background

I am trying to render a burning object in fron of transparent background with blender 2.82. When I render with a transparent background the flames are not visible beyond the borders of the object, ...
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Explosion/fire not showing up after bake in viewport or rendered

I was following an explosion tutorial for 2.82 on youtube and he did a bake and after that, the explosion showed up, but when I do it the domain changes sizes but the explosion does not show up, I ...
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Render Transparent Background Fire Simulation

After many hours of research, I have yet to find a full tutorial explaining this. How can I go about rendering a fire simulation with a transparent background? I would prefer to use PNG as the file ...
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How to create fire with mantaflow, I can only generate smoke not fire

Could somebody please explain the new mantaflow fire simulation setting. I was unable to generate fire both in Cycles and Eevee. I play with all the setting.
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Fire is bleeding/rendered in front of all objects in Eevee

I'm playing with fire simulation (added it to an object via object-quick effects menu). I use couple of faces on my torch model as an emitter. I encountered a problem when the fire is rendered in ...
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Blender 2.81a: No Smoke or Fire With Quick / Solid Render

I think this is a bug. Can anyone help with a workaround or confirm that it does not work at the moment? In the default scene, if I select the cube, then add via menu "Object | Quick Effects | Quick ...
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Quick smoke + fire not rendering properly in 2.81a

Having just ventured into the physics of Blender, I tried to set fire to a cylinder in a previous animation. The results looked nice especially using Cycles. In the 3D viewer with Viewport Shading: ...
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Issues in fire simulation

I'm using blender 2.81a on ubuntu 18.04.3 I'm try to setup a scene to make a house on fire soo I tried it very basic approach it didn't work, then I just wanted to test if the fire simulation is ...
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Unable to view fire simulation in rendered view

I tried to create a smoke simulation in blender 2.8. I baked the data after I added the domain and flow object I can only see the fire in solid view and wireframe view but unable to see the fire ...
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Making flaming particles?

I have an animation I am trying to make of a flaming object emitting particles. I need the particles to be on fire though, and emit smoke. I have already tried faking it by placing the object that the ...
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Quick smoke in blender 2.8 goes the wrong direction

I tried looking for it everywhere, but I can't seem to find a fix for it. Maybe I'm making just some really du b mistake but I can't seem to figure out what that would be. I looked everywhere and ...
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Is it possible to animate a fire emitter/domain combo using armature and weightpaint - and if it is, how do I do that?

I'm working on a school project, and one of the features of the project is a haunted armor with arms of fire. In this iteration I decided to use a smoke physics object set to fire. However, now I've ...
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Creating realistic small flames artifacts

I would like to reproduce this kind of artifacts on a flame simulation (see picture) I am able to come up with some nice flame simulations but I haven't found a way to reproduce the little waves of ...
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How can I Import Houdini Pyro VDB Cache data to Blender

I wan't to Import Pyro simulation from houdini to Blender I tried to import VDB cache from houdini to blender but it was not compatible with blender and blender could not read it Is there any way to ...
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How do I make more complex LEGO simulations in Blender?

In the lego movie, the fire, water, and smoke is made of lego bricks. It's not just a simple method of having one type of brick, several different bricks and brick slopes are used to get a really ...
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Blender doesnt render my fire and smoke

I wanted to make a VFX in Eeve where an fire is in my kitchen, but the fire and Smoke simulation doesnt work. In the solid mode everything seems ok but in the render view there is only smoke .When I ...
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Strugging to render my fire animation with Alpha/Transparency correctly [duplicate]

i've made a little fire animation using the particle system that i'm happy with, but i'm really struggling to output it correctly as a 4second .Mov with alpha/transparency enabled so i can import it ...
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How to achieve fire effect like this?

I'm in eevee 2.8 and trying to emulate this: Fire Gif He explains how he does this with billboards, but I'm wondering this is the best approach in blender. Is this (the fire and smoke) possible ...
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What is Mantaflow?

I have heard of this feature involving smoke and fire called mantaflow. What is this feature, is it free? How will it help me with smoke and fire simulations?
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light-Saber / Dr Strange VFX

fellas! Does anybody know how to recreate in Blender Light-Saber effect, similarly to popular plugin for after effects Saber by video-copilot, but in 3D? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSXGxkyr0k) ...
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Fire Simulation completely disappears from scene (2.8)

Im making an Iron Man flying over city sort of clip, and i had perfectly good fire sim yesterday. I woke up today and came back to the project and there is no sim in my renders, viewport, nothing. I ...
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Fire Not Showing In Rendered view or LookDev but in other views Eevee [closed]

I've been losing my mind about this. Looked all over the place tried what others have. Nothing works. I've designed a throne room and the braziers I have next to the throne must have fire. I add the ...
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Smoke in evee final render is missing

I have a smoke set up and when I render in evee all I have is the plane. I have read I need to turn volumetrics on but the volumetrics check box is missing, what am I doing wrong?
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Why is the fire not rendering when sphere (domain) in viewport is hidden?

The actual question is basically what I'm asking. The Sphere is the domain so the fire and other animations will be contained within it. I would like to hide this sphere for a much more realistic ...
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How to create Heat Distortion Shockwave for explosion?

I have seen a number of tutorials on Shockwaves and they all look cartoonish to me. I have seen a tutorial by Andrew Price and another one using a plane and a refraction texture animated with noise to ...
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fire and smoke in same domain

i like to create a fire and smoke simulation in one domain with different emitters. But I can only change the colors from both the smoke and the fire. I like to set different colors for the flames and ...
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Fire simulation looks blurry

EDIT V2: Added new photos with camera settings and render settings. Hi there this is my first ever post in this forum. I'm new to blender and proabably doing something stupid but I'm struggling to ...
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Can’t change fire color to black?

I am trying to make an image with black fire against a white background but whenever I change the color ramp to black the fire just disappears, any help is appreciated.! This is the node set up I have ...
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Fire that turns to smoke

I want to make a stream of fire where drips of it fall off, and then it turns into thick smoke. How can I do that? .
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Volumetric fire looks cuboid

I do not know why. The tutorial I followed was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ybn4tYxs4. I am not able to get the result of a nicely shaped flame. Below is my set up for the domain:
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Fire & smoke not showing in render, but only in viewport

I have spent some time playing with fire & blender nodes, once I render a scene nothing shows up sadly. Any suggestions?
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Trying to make fire in a glass cube

I'm trying to make a transparent cube or glass cube with fire in the middle of it so you can see it in the cube. I've tried different ways to make the cube transparent but I don't see the flames but ...
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Fire overlaying smoke bug

i’m having a really bad time trying to follow one of Blender Guru’s tutorials. in his fire and smoke cycles tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-zK7Bu8cAI) his smoke particles appear ...
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Smoke and fire not showing up in my eevee render

In my render the fire with smoke physics are not rendering for some reason, I've been breaking my head about this. I use blender 2.8 and the Eevee renderer. I'll have a download link to my file. ...
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How to add circular flame restricted within an object?

I need a flame inside the following structure: The flame needs to be realistic like a bonfire, conical and pointy. Something like this(for shape of flame only not textures and color): I tried a ...
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How to simulate in blender, smoke coming out from a bottle or a flask?

I want to create in blender an animation. It is possible to simulate the smoke that coming out from a bottle? I attached here my blend file. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rL1v4v-...
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Fire appears in preview, only renders emission

Recently while trying to render fire I run into a problem where the fire shows up in preview but it does not render, only the light that comes from it. All the settings are at default, I can't ...
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Blender explosion animation not rendering

I am trying to create an explosion in Blender. However, when I try to render the explosion, this white box gets bigger in my particle domain but I can see the explosion in the viewport. What am I ...
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can't see fire in render [duplicate]

I made a fire+smoke simulation as shown: then when I render, it shows only the block of domain but I want to see fire in rendered view please help me how to fix it the screenshot of rendered view is:
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my fire simulation is not reflecting the right way

so i'm trying to make a fire simulation reflect off my desk but im having a problem. it looks like there's a box there but the only things that are being rendered are the smoke simulation, the plane ...
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