Smoke from a fire

[JCPalmer]

I have put fire in a scene in a plane.  The fire cannot initially be seen until some camera animation takes place.  Was wondering if a smoke plane could be made above the fire plane, which would be seen?

The dark clouds in the mansion was the only thing I have seen which is close.  Anyone know they are done?

[GameMonetize]

In the Mansion scene, the dark clouds are done with a texture on a semi transparent sphere 

[JCPalmer]

Thanks, do not think sphere in the middle of a scene will work, but gave me an idea.  Clue: "Where there is smoke there's fire.  It's all just in the textures & speed"

[Wingnut]

Hi guys.  Here's a pretty nice particles version... done by someone.  I like it.  http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#1DZUBR#24

Be well, everyone.

[JCPalmer]

Glad I waited / asked way before I got to that level of polish.  My scene is pretty large, camera.maxZ is 500.  Not sure what is going to work both far away & once closer (within vertex budget).  I did a test of a very tall flame, & it is visible from far.  Nice to have options.

[aWeirdo]

1 hour ago, JCPalmer said:

Glad I waited / asked way before I got to that level of polish.  My scene is pretty large, camera.maxZ is 500.  Not sure what is going to work both far away & once closer (within vertex budget).  I did a test of a very tall flame, & it is visible from far.  Nice to have options.

You could do a simple plane with texture and billboard mode (the one that only rotates around y). Together with a LOD to change transparency.

[JCPalmer]

@aWeirdo, except for the LOD part, that is what Fire is as I have copied it. Thanks.  Changing the textures to the Fire Material to make smoke is what I was giving clue to, if not obvious for any non-english people.  If this works, I would have only 4 verts, and no cpu load.

Particles are going to be backup.