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Smoke Appendix

Troubleshooting

• Q. The smoke cache is greyed out!
• A. Save your .blend file.

• Q. Blender Crashes when I push the Domain Button of a smoke simulation!
• A. This is caused by outdated drivers. Update your Drivers.

• Q. Blender Crashes when Smoke Simulations bake!
• A. You ran out of RAM to compute it. Try Baking at a lower resolution.

• Q. The smoke isn't rendering!
• A. Go back and read the documentation.

• Q. When I try to make fire, it gives me strange results, or doesn't show up.
• A. Make sure you have a high emmision Value for the Material, and that you have a Smoke Density texture, and that you set the fire texture to Multiply.

External links

• In-Depth introduction to smoke and fire in Blender 2.5 covering most of the pitfalls
• Guide to realistic fire in Blender by MiikaH