$1500 PC Build

My first PC build ! 

here are the specs:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qjhZzy

FlameThrower v15

Here I'm using multiple programs to help me capture this effect. There is still a little tweaking needed but I feel like the over all effect has a realism effect.

Fuel - Nparticles and dynamic fluids in Maya 14
Fire - FumeFX
Comp - Nuke

FumeFx Flamming Tours

Here a quick render with some wavelet turned on. I still need to get use to the scale and attributes.

FumeFX R&D Playblast

Some interesting effect will be create with FumeFX. The more time I spent learning the more I start to enjoy its intelligent codding. 

Here is a little render of what I have so far. 

Test 2

FumeFX Plug-in

Having so much fun learning FumeFX. Afterworks - Sitni Sati are the provide for this beautiful plugin on Maya and 3ds Max. Its only be an hours or so and my render are coming out better and better. Here is a quick one for you guys:

1st Render

As the night goes on, we will see my progression. Hopefully by the morning I can get a good flame thrower going !

Render FlameThrower_V13 with SUoP

Here is a short render showing the light emission off of the fluid dynamics.

SOuP Plug-in in use

Made a few changes on the lighting side as well as the fluid dynamics.

I am going to up res this 90 base resolution using the SOuP script. 

The plug in adds about 30 seconds to my render time, but I do think the small amount of detail that it adds is quite help full.

flamethrower_v12

composites in Nuke

Here are a couple of render.

I'm in the process of rendering the fuel. I will then go back and fix up the fire.

Start of Ignition

Flame Thrower with main combustion

FlameThrower_v11

Now it comes down to small tweaks. This is why I am using Nuke to comp everything in.

I really want to get better detail on the fire and make it look more spiky instead of its rounded look it has.

FlameThrower_v9

I have been looking around the internet for better fluid plugin and I came across one called Fume FX. But for now here is a short video of shot 1.

SOup Plug-in

http://www.soup-dev.com/examples2_1.htm

upresFluid

I found this plug in because it was free and compered to Phoenix FD to looks simple to use. When doing a few test with the plug in, I found that the nodes dont really help that much. I feel like its a good plug in for low to high rez, but if you already have a nice high rez and want to make it even better then SOup is not the best plug in. For the reasons of it takes a lot of memory and time to recalculate each voxel.

But with a little experimenting, I found that I may use the plugin in my project.  

Right: Original.      Left: SOup Plug-in.

 The render time didnt increase but I still need to play around with the caching and batch rendering. I would like to get a short video of the experiment.

FlameThrower V7

Here is a 15 min render with everything on it: final gather, lights, multi-streaks, and fluids.

Here is a quick render, about 100 frames but it lower quality and doesn't have final gather or multi-streaks.

Flame Thrower v2

I didn't get enough time to render out my version 2. But here is a single frame render.

A few changes where made;
-> The back wall was removed.
-> The fire shoots out further.


I will add a video shortly

FlameThrower Render Test _ V1

I did a quick render of about 100 frames, which took 4 hours. A single frame took a min and few seconds but in the end I think its worth the wait.

My dynamic fluid setting are are high and the fluid contain is quite small. I need to change up a few thing after watching the video. For instancing, a flame thrower can shoot out from 5 feet to 80 feet. So In my second version I'm going to have a bigger fluid container but also attach a  volume axis field to the fluid. This should hopefully contain the flame and prevent the flame form dissipating to quickly.

Flame Thrower. (Reference)

Here are some video reference that will help capture the fluid effect I am trying to achieve in Maya.

Video Reference:


-> Slow Motion Fire Extinction
1.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQOVhjQ31DY

->Mythbuster Flame Thrower
2.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHB3JuID-rs
min 1:30

->FlameThrower Massacre
3.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DkciMTsLI
min 0:30

->Max test a new flame thrower nozzle
6.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ2LsyGuzJU 

->Dancing Pigeons - Ritalin
5.) http://vimeo.com/13639493