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NOTE The Fire effect does not cast any light or shadows in the scene. To simulate
illumination, you must also create lights. To cast shadows, you need to go to the
Shadows Parameters rollout on page 5046 of your lights, and turn on Atmosphere
Shadows.
Procedures
To create fire effects:
1 Create one or more atmospheric apparatus objects to locate the fire effect
in your scene.
2 Define one or more fire atmospheric effects on the Environment panel.
3 Assign atmospheric apparatus objects to the fire effects.
Sample fire effects
Example: To create a campfire:
1 Click Helpers on the Create panel and choose Atmospheric Apparatus
on page 6560 from the subcategory list.
2 Click Sphere Gizmo. Drag the cursor in the Top viewport to define an
apparatus radius of about 20 units. Turn on the Hemisphere check box
in Sphere Gizmo Parameters.
3 Click Non-Uniform Scale. Click Yes in the Warning dialog (this warning
doesn't apply to atmospheric gizmos), and scale the apparatus 250 percent
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