Candle Flame

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Back in around the beginning of 2023 I started a project but ended up on the “back burner” then kind of forgot about it. D’oh :laughing:

Any way its was my attempt at making a flame or flickering candle flame anyway. I would guess its been done before, and perhaps better but its my attempt at doing it.

Its a work in progress and not sure what I’m going to do with it, not sure it has a lot of usages, but it looks cool though.

The flame is generate in pure Xojo code.

Thought I would share a short video clip of it.
Flame

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the minimum random color should have a value maybe above 64 or the flames appear black sometimes.

you could use different images for the flames or try to embed this flames effekt with a mask.

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https://fabiensanglard.net/doom_fire_psx/

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Ah, yes, good point on the colors. I pulled the coloring code from another project where it used the "fire colors " but for something different.

For the flames I’m just using FIllOval, seems to do a decent job. As for that Drawing Fire example, maybe. Not sure if it will look right or not. Have to see.

Anyway thanks.

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If you changed the rotation of the flame ever so slightly, randomly left and right it will make the fire look more alive I think. Great job with animating though!

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Good point, I’ll have to look into that.

Thanks. :sunglasses:

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Very impressive. Well done!

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Thank you!

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Updated it a bit. Have a new video of it, replaced the old video of it so same link as above.

Its a bit more “alive” now, so to speak. Pretty cool effect.

:sunglasses:

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looks better, need bit more gaseous look and maybe a background scene.
and less color step or fade between new color?

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Very cool. You might also want to check out the “Drawing Fire” example, which uses a cellular automata model to simulate a fire effect. I believe this was created by Joe Strout many, many years ago.

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Drawing Fire Example

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Yeah a background can be done, though right now this is for testing things out.

When I get more time I’ll have to look into the color step/fading. :sunglasses:

Thanks!

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Yeah the “Drawing Fire” is pretty cool. :sunglasses:

When I get some time I’ll have to see if what of if can use any of it.

Thanks!

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404 not found on the flame link :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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I was cleaning up my website probably got deleted during clean up.