Gas filling room

[Justin Vaillancourt]

Trapcode Particular would be your best route, but if you don’t have it, you can get realistic results with CC Particle World.

Change the particle type to ‘faded sphere’ change the colors to white, crank up the size and turn down the opacity to around 10-15%. Make sure the opacity map is fade in/fade out and lower the gravity and velocity.

Play around with the settings enough and you should get something you’re happy with.

Justin

[Grayson Earle]

THANK YOU 😀

[Todd Kopriva]

I am not a fan of using particle effects to simulate fog/smoke/vapor when you can just composite some real footage of fog/smoke/vapor into you scene. It’s hard to make vapor simulated with a particle effect look realistic. Stock footage of smoke is pretty easy to get.

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[Simon Twine]

The benefit of using particular would be the ability to make the smoke react to wind, the environment, get stuck to the roof etc…

in all honesty, using BOTH real smoke elements and particle effects would be the best IMHO 😉

[David Bogie]

Particular is expensive.

I’m with Todd, shoot it. Much more fun to pull out the pyrotechnics. We shot water-filled cloud tanks with white latex paint and aquariums filled with carbon dioxide and various evaporative or oxidizer side effects for many years before simulators came along. It wasn’t too difficult to place the aquarium and camera in roughly the same relationship as a the room into which the effect would be blended.

Gave us a chance to visit the magician’s supply shop in downtown San Diego to get squibs, accelerants, smoke powders, sparkle powders, powdered brass, powdered aluminum, flash paper—all kinds of cool toys!

bogiesan