Think you need a fluid dynamics system for fire and smoke effects? Think again, you can use X-Particles FLIP. You can actually use any system that has a FLIP, or Fluid-implicit particle. A FLIP solver, uses a hybrid between a particle based and volume based fluid simulations. X-Particles has a FLIP Solver, so technically, you can create smoke and fire effects with it.
[pullquote]all of the components of the X-Particles FLIP Solver as it pertains to making fire and smoke simulations[/pullquote]To show us this is, Motion Graphics Artist, Noah Witchell, as he walks through all of the components that make up the FLIP Solver in X-Particles, detailed in relation to creating fire and smoke effects. Noah shows how you can animate the pertinent values of the X-Particles FLIP solver to get some really nice looking explosions. No Turbulence FD required.
