[caryjames]

Any tips for someone who does not have a CAD package with a particulate generator?

[Bubbaloo]

Photoshop.

[iker]

Particle Illusion ---> http://www.wondertouch.com/

[caryjames]

I knew a smart arsed answer would come from one of you ... photoshop....

Thanks Iker- I will check it out

Thanks for nothing Brian

[zdeno]

Brian is well known of his sophisticated sense of humor

once I modeled dust for volume light test .
It started to look very promicing but rendertimes was tragic.

simple 3dmax scatter option

[Fernando Tella]

I tried something with some low poly spheres scattered over another sphere. The trick is very low opacity. It's fairly fast.






Edit: I'm sorry, this images won't be available today, I'm changing the host.

[zdeno]

nice ... Fernando

[Maximus3D]

Can't you do something like this with the help of the new Realflow integration now ? and perhaps the use of thinSSS. Or maybe just model planar surfaces which you map with gradients and thinSSS to simulate slowmoving greywhite smoke.

/ Magnus

[Asmithey]

Blender has a smoke generator....

[sandykoufax]

Run~~~. Sorry, Learn~ Blender.

[caryjames]

Cool test Fernando!

Thanks for the tips on learning Blender- I will download it and see if I can't get something working.

[itsallgoode9]

with your question, can you let us know how you are planning on using the smoke in the render? My opinion is that unless the entire render is of smoke used in a creative way, then using stock photos and photoshop would be your best bet. it will likely give you the most realistic results and the least amount of time put into it. setting up a smoke solution and rendering it and getting it to look good can/will take more time than the object/environment you are adding it in to. if your project is still going on, show some renders of what you need it added in to so we can better advise you.

[Bubbaloo]

using stock photos and photoshop would be your best bet. it will likely give you the most realistic results and the least amount of time put into it.

That's what I meant to say with my one word answer.

[djflod]

Photoshop.

i think the same

[caryjames]

Thanks guys, I was planning on using some light emitting smoke/vapour in a jewellery render. I wanted the vapour to wrap around the object and for the colour of the smoke to have some influence over the lighting of the scene (which is why I wanted to avoid photoshop). Maybe I can get a similar effect with a translucent ribbon and some falloff to make it disappear around the edges. The reason I wanted a random vapour generator was that I did not want to model the vapour and lose any randomness. I wish I had an image to share with you the look I am trying to achieve but for now the image is strictly in my head ... got to get it out