smoke from a chimney

[Tudor “ted” jelescu]

Use puppet tool- I remember a tutorial that described how to make a wind tunnel using particles and puppet tool, try searching the cow for that and use the same technique.

Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
Senior Compositor/VFX Artist

[Ellen Osborne]

Thanks. I’ll see what I can find. I did try a couple of other warp things like DE Freeform, but it didn’t really work the way I wanted.

[John Cuevas]

Try using particle playground and some layer maps, they can affect position.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[Eddy Rose]

I’ve been where you’ve been and if you want realistic, manipulable, silky smoke (not puffy smoke) you’re going to have to bite the bullet and dl particular. There’s no way around it, at least in my searching. If you decide to download it just do this and add some wind.

https://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/put-out-realistic-candle-smoke/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aetuts+(AETUTS)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Yup, wind is actually an option in the particular settings. Awesome right?

[John Cuevas]

Played with this some more using particle playground(comes with AE) with these results(I can’t get it to play in this post, but if you click the chimney smoke link it plays):

Chimmney Smoke

Here are the settings, can’t see it, but I used wiggle on the particles per second “wiggle(4,40)—Main Comp:
particles.jpg

Wind Controller: windcontroller.jpg

Johnny Cuevas, Editor

[Walter Soyka]

Another vote for Particular. Like Eddy said, it makes the physics easy, and the new self-shadowing feature is perfect for smoke.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Ellen Osborne]

Well I can’t afford particular right now, so I’m going to give John’s idea a try. Thanks John. I prefer the smoke to go a little slower, but I’ve already got that part figured out. I’ve never used layer maps, but I’m sure I can find a tutorial somewhere.