Chapter 6. Fire in the “Vulcan” Demo
Hubert Nguyen NVIDIA
This chapter talks about the “Vulcan” demo that the NVIDIA demo team created for the launch of the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra. Inspired by the Balrog creature in The Lord of the Rings movies, our goal was to display a monster that would be the source of raging flames, as shown in Figure 6-1. The flames and smoke had to be massive and sometimes overwhelming. Our goal in writing this chapter is to share our experience of how we created the effect and to discuss possible enhancements. In the end, we hope that this exploration will help you to create more sophisticated fire effects in your own applications.
Figure 6-1. A Screen Capture from the “Vulcan” Demo
Creating Realistic Flames
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