How could I control shape of fire to achieve a matches flame?

[Masoud]

Hi;

I tried to achieve a smooth shape and calm fire as a matches flame, but as you can see in image bellow my fire is in a crazy shape..!

How could I control shape of fire to make it smooth?

 

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Edited July 1, 2019 by Masoud

[3dome]

as a start turn off any disturbance, turbulence, shredding, sharpening, confinement, play with Temperature diffusion, maybe add a gasblur if you are still unhappy

use that as a base and shape the sim from there

Edited July 1, 2019 by 3dome

[DaJuice]

This is a great tutorial for candle flame. It's not in English, but easy enough to follow along. If I remember correctly the "Timescale" setting of your pyro sim is one of the most important parameters for getting away from that campfire look.

 

[toadstorm]

Honestly, it doesn't make much sense to use pyro for a simple candle flame. Just make the shape procedurally out of polygons or whatever, use procedural noise / bending / etc to wobble the shape, then render it as a volume. You can always do a secondary pyro sim for smoke if you need smoke. It'll be a bazillion times faster to iterate on this way.

[Atom]

You can also check out this thread on the topic.

 

[Masoud]

Thanks everyone, very good tips.