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Light it on fire!

Light it on fire! - Blender Tutorial

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Light it on fire!

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- [Instructor] Sometimes you just want to light something on fire. In this week's Blender: Tips, Tricks, & Techniques, we're going to take this monkey and let smoke up in flames. Okay, now it's really really really easy to do fire in Blender. First, you're going to hit T for tools, just open this up a little bit and I've already got a monkey here from before, he looks metal. So I'm going to go back to solid mode, I'm going to duplicate it with Shift + D, I'm going to scale him up a little bit and them I'm going to hit Space bar, Quick Smoke. Look at that, quick smoke. And on the left here you'll see, quick smoke or quick smoke and fire. Now you're going to notice that there is a bounding box. This box is going to tell you where the fire will reach to. So if I just play it. (fumes) Look at that, isn't that awesome? But you can see here how it stops on top of this little box here right? So if I stop everything, I go all the way back to the beginning and then make this box bigger, yeah…

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