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?

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Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com

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