Need help with some lava

[Randy Johnson]

There are many kinds of lava.
If you want a flowing lava run an emitter in a metaball…but this will take forever to render. A less detailed version of that could be an emitter with lots of particles and a motion blur.
I think a noise with displacement should handle the texture aspect.

/randy

[Brian Smith]

Man, you weren’t joking, it does take forever to render. But that is what I’m going for. Thank you very much! I do have one last question. Is there a way, (with pyrocluster or environment, or something) to get some sort of displacement, as if it was hot. I can’t remember what it’s called, but essentially I’m looking for the same effect that you get if you look right above the surface of a freshly paved asphalt road in the summer time. It’s not critical, but it would make a nice touch. Or is this better try and fake in AE?

[Randy Johnson]

Yea metaball gets a nice flow but rarely worth the time.

for steam you could use a light with visability and noise turned on.
Or you can try pyrocluster on with steam setting…but personally i would make it in AE or combustion or any other compositing.

/randy

[Randy Johnson]

I recently bought the cinema 4d es magazine (in english) and they have included an amazing lava texture that looks great and then you can just animate it onto a plane or model.
/randy