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Ignite a fiery tornado

Ignite a fiery tornado

- [Instructor] This week on Blender Tips, Tricks, and Techniques, we're going to make a fire tornado. Now it's actually really easy to make one. First, you're going to want to take this cube and delete it. And you're going to add a plane. Type space bar, quick smoke. Smoke and fire over here on the left, and let's just scale this up. Let's gives us something to work with. Pretty big here, okay. And just play it. Now, when you start to play it you'll see how the fire and smoke are generated. And it looks kind of nice. Okay, so let's stop that. And go up to the beginning. And I'm going to go here, and I'm going to add a force. Now to add a force, you're going to hit shift A, go down to force field, and I'm going to go to vortex. And I'm just going to play this really quick. Now, if this happens that means that you have to wait for the cache to restart. So let's just go to the end, and hey, there you go. But this vortex isn't doing anything. What gives? We'll go to the physics tab, and…

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