Excellent trick! Works like a charm. In this case at least.
Mind if I borrow it?
:)

Remco


Tek wrote:
> 
> I've been meaning to post this here for ages. This is an early test-render for
> the smoke I used in my Meteor entry to the Force Of Nature round. In many ways I
> think it looks even better than the smoke in the final animation.
> 
> The cool thing is, this only took 7 minutes 25 seconds to render!
> 
> The reason it's so "cheap" is that I've cheated! :) The smoke consists of lots
> of discs turned to face the camera. Each disc fades to transparent at the edge,
> and has a normal to make it look spherical. There's only 300 particles in the
> animation. There's also a couple of bugs that I fixed in the final animation,
> but I still like it.
> 
> Anyone want source?
> 
> --
> Tek
> http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> 
>                            Name: cheapsmoke(7-25).avi
>    cheapsmoke(7-25).avi    Type: WMPLAYER File (video/avi)
>                        Encoding: x-uuencode

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