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Craig
63 posts

08 Jul 2007
Hi, ive been working on getting a nice smoke/fire effect right with particles for a few days now, and ive finally got it how i want. The particles are almost completely transparent and have a particle age map on them. The problem i have is, ive put this in my main scene, and i needed to add some lights. The problem is when i add the lights you can see spheres alot better and the particles no longer look like smoke, ive been looking through tutorials for hours but i cant find anything to solve the problem. Any ideas?

thanks

Craig
d4rk3lf
109 posts

09 Jul 2007
Why don't you just exlude particles from the lights?
ivanisavich
4,196 posts

09 Jul 2007
Hey craig,

Do the particles' material have specular turned on by any chance? If so, make sure you apply the opacity map to the specular channel as well, otherwise the sphere shape itself will have a highlight, and you'll lose the illusion of smoke particles