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Blender physics 101: Fireballs

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Blender physics 101: Fireballs

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- [Instructor] Hello and welcome to another exciting week of Blenders Tips Tricks and Techniques. This week we going to look at doing one of my favorite things. We're going to make a fireball. Now I know what you're thinking, how do you make a fireball inside a Blender? Well the first thing you need to do is hit X and Delete this cube. Shift + A and add a UV Sphere and then hit either Spacebar or F3 to go to Operator Search and hit Quick Smoke. Open up the Quick Smoke Options and pick Smoke and Fire. Now close this off. You can scale up this domain a little bit hit Ctrl + A to apply the scale. Click on our little sphere and let's go to our Physics Tab and open this up a lot. And in here, you'll see a lot of options. The sphere has Density and Temperature Difference, Sampling Rate Et cetera. This allows you to control a lot of the spheres own generation of smoke and fire. So let's just go ahead and Play it and…

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