How to make a fire flipbook texture?

deohboeh

I am learning Cascade in UDK and really want to make a flipbook fire texture but I dont know where to begin... As in I cant understand how to generate such textures... If there could be a tutorial for it it would be great! All the tutorials I have found thus far only describe how to import and implement. Any help is much appreciated!

leleuxart

You have to create an image and break it up into equal parts, like 3x3, 4x4, etc. Fill each quadrant with a picture of the flames. When you import into UDK, I think you select the texture type and it should have an option where you select how it's ordered? I can't remember entirely, but it's pretty simple once you import. The hardest part is creating a flipbook that looks right when it's moving- I couldn't get it. A regular material works better for me.

Edit: Also, if you're looking for fire textures, CGTextures has a lot from the same fire. And I've seen a lot of people use Maya particles for base textures.

imbueFX

I talk about this pretty extensively in my Cascade Beginner's Guide on 3dmotive. It's in volume 2, chapters 13 & 14.

https://www.3dmotive.com/f104301

There are lots of different approaches, but in the video I talk about how to use After Effects to layout a flipbook from some stock fire footage.

Hope this helps!

deohboeh

Hey guys!! Thanks a lot!!! All of your advice was lots of help!