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   * Subject: Candle
   * Date: Thu, 09 Feb 95 01:17:00 +0100 [59]
   * From: torgeir.holm@tbc.bbs.no (TORGEIR HOLM)

I made an animation of a candle a while back, which came out pretty nice.

Take your basic candle-flame ellipsoid shape and add the following attributes:

        Fog Length: 0.10


    Texture: Ghost


        Fog length at T: 400
        T: 0.8


    Texture: FogTop


        Fog length at T: 200
        T: 0.5
        Noise Magnitude: 0


        Place the axis so that the origin is in the tip of the flame,
        and the bottom of the bounding box is 2/3 towards the bottom of
        the flame. With the Z axis pointing up.


    Texture: Fireball


        Color1: 255,255,100
        Color2: 200,030,000
        Noise: 0
        Reflect&Filter 1&2: 0


        Place the axis so that the origin is in the bottom of the flame,
        and the end of the Y axis is in the tip.

You can now add a child axis in the middle of your flame, and make it a lightsource.

To animate this, make sure the Y axis points upward (Do this before adding textures, as their placement is relative to the axis), and move the the object up along a wavy path with conform to path. Then move the path back dovn a mirror copy of itself, so that the flame stays in the same position. Makes a really nice and realistic candle- flame

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