Blender Tutorial - Realistic Fire for Still Renders

Hello everyone! In this Blender tutorial we will be covering how to create realistic fire for still renders. A lot of the time when you try to render out an image of fire it just won't look that great. So today I will show you how to add detail and make it look good for a still render.

If you want to learn more about the Fire Simulation check out my course on it! Mantaflow Fire & Smoke Simulation Guide in Blender!

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Blender Tutorial Fire Simulation Render Material Cycles Realistic 3D B3D 2.9 2.8 Animation Beginner

[sczottb]

Had to do this twice to get the blocky noise out, in case anyone else has this problem, I set the RGB mode from the Noise texture ColorRamp from Linear to Ease, as Stephen suggested. i missed it the first time and it drove me bonkers. Finally the fire is looking perfect. Thanks for this amazing tutorial and all your hard work.

[reactedboss]

I might have found a fix if you can't see it in the viewport. What worked for me is when I typed in the word "Heat" in the attribute node I was capitalizing the H and it didn't work but making it lowercase fixed it. I was having the same problem and just changing that helped for some reason.

[AMIN-hkvg]

For those who are working with version 3.1, try this method: connect the volume info of the density part to the color ramp and connect the color ramp to the math and set the math to multiply mode.
By increasing the multiplier, your fire will be brighter, for example, 40 is suitable. And finally, connect the multiply (math) to density or blackbody intensity. Make the right and left collars black and the center white
Bring the two sides of the black closer to the white.

[krypto]

I one noticed that going into Material properties of the domain or the emitter object (I cant instead of Linear increases the quality of the fire a little bit more

[LeonardoAguiarD]

0:00 - 1:10 Intro & basic setup
1:10 - 1:25 Turbulance Force Field Setup
1:25 - 1:45 Change "emitter's" params
1:45 - 2:00 Apply texture to fire sim
2:00 - 4:00 Fire domain settings
4:00 - 4:30 Channel's Personal Ad
4:30 - 6:30 Renderer & shader setup
6:30 - 7:30 flame color settings
7:30 - 9:00 Render; world; flame refines
9:00 - 10:30 Compositing

[SlickFX_Trader]

I just purchased this course. I have been able to achieve something that I haven't been able to in 3 weeks of youtube tutorials and Im only 1st modular. LOL. What a gr8 course and well priced too. Looking forward to completing this!

[abiyyupanggalih]

Saves to watch later, see you in the morning

[aniruddhbambhaniya]

Just one word : " Amazing Work " " Awesome " ( One word is not enough for you 🔥 )

[SHIVAM.M.S]

Please Next tutorial on Fire for Animations🔥

[nicholascrawford]

The first tutorial I've seen on this that actually worked for me. Thank you!

[Rocklaz]

Wonderful thank you. Its great to see how you show images and outcomes with different settings.

[darriuss]

thank you so much, i try many times and finally got it the fire like your render, thanks again!!

[CoreyKeith]

You videos are great --straight forward addressing critical aspects but not dragging out trivial details.

[goutam]

One of the best tutorial on yt for fire in cycles

[alanthomasgramont]

You win the internet today. This tutorial made my weekend. Thanks!

[jinbum]

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for the tutorial boss!

[BlenderFan]

Thanks for showing this very helpful tutorial and happy blending with blender.

[headlessonion]

For anyone pulling hair because of non-working turbulence force field bug with pure fire simulation:
You have to add at least a tiny amount "Flame Smoke" (like 0.00001) under Fire tab in Fluid settings for your domain.
You can later remove that smoke by setting Density to 0 for Principled Volume in Shading tab.

[Cpl.Cadaver]

It took me a couple of tries to duplicate but I got it. Thanks for the tutorial.

[SupaKoopaTroopa]

If only I saw this BEFORE I started working on a massive project involving fire!