When creating rubble i used rigid bodies to drop stuff, then "froze" a good resul by baking the frame and moved that resul...

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When creating rubble i used rigid bodies to drop stuff, then "froze" a good resul by baking the frame and moved that result to my main scene - can i do that w/ a fire? i can't work it out on the bit of fumbling i've tried, but basically i want to create fire then freeze it at a certain point at which it looks good, then bake that as an object to drop into my scene. TIA

Answer 1 · 2016-09-14T20:20:36Z

Jonathan Lampel replied September 14, 2016 8:20pm

Not quite, but you can use the same caching technique as with particles to use a previously baked simulation in another scene: https://cgcookie.com/lesson/cache/

Answer 2 · 2016-09-15T11:11:31Z

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replied September 15, 2016 11:11am

thanks for the quick reply. my scene will have two fires in it - if i create them separately and cache them, and assign them in my main scene, will i not hit timeline issues using the cache? if, eg, one has great-looking flames at frame 30 and the other has great flames at 75, am i able to step through each cache timeline separately? this is why i was hoping i could just bake the fire as a single-frame object and import/append it. cheers

Answer 3 · 2016-12-08T15:07:01Z

Jonathan Lampel replied December 8, 2016 3:07pm

Ah sorry I missed your reply on this one. You can set the cache to start at whatever frame you choose, so that you can pick the best frames for your animation.