Investigation blog post

This week I spent time integrating and finishing my fire and animation my lightning striking 

the first thing I did was create a final texture for my fire which this time was much more distinct from the video and I thought exactly what I was looking for. I applied it and created animated the flame as a preview

after this I attempted to create a different form of the fire that would be good for my fire pits rather than the torches that the original had been intended for and I could change this by changing the size fo the domain. I had some problems because trying to duplicate a mantaflow simulation is impossible and although I did eventually just create a new fire simulation it took me a while to get it perfectly as I wanted it

And Finally I decided to position and animate my lightning strikes just to make sure they would look good in my final animation. I think I need to make them emit more light but other than that I think they work well and although it is lagging I screen recorded what I animated

weekly work log:

monday:

Tuesday:fire sim

Wednesday: fire sim

thursday: fire sim/lightning 

friday: lightning