Volumetric Explosions by Morgantao

Great!! and very well done. Thanks for adding this to the explosion filter collection and so we have more destructive power (graphically speaking ) and combine them in different ways.

http://filterforge.com/filters/4965.html

http://filterforge.com/filters/2654.html

http://filterforge.com/filters/4638.html

ALSO this could be like a water explosion if you change the hues to blue

Nice filter Morgantao

Running this through the batchrunner, must try that

nice

Hey Morgantao, nice filter! Really love all the detail in the flames, especially as the decay starts approaching 100.

I'm going to have to jump in and see what's under the hood!

Again I want to congratulate you for this great and explosively amazing filter!!

You can ALSO make many of this round explosions and JOIN them together to make bigger explosions of other sizes, and other shapes, as mixing 4 you could have a square and with 6 a rectangular style.

Also you could mix this with many other resources you may have and have even better explosions.

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Morgantao wrote: So if you need, let's say 10 different explosions, all with the same settings, just make a new image, 1000x10000 pixels (or 10000x1000) for example, and get 10 explosions in a row.

WOW!! Cool and I did not think that this could be possible. GREAT!

It works very well and the best thing is that all are different

and applying an overlay blend mode to all the layers you get the same but with some shades of red

And ALSO this could be used to make textures as you make this huge 40 into 1 explosion and then crop it in a square size and use is it as a background texture for other possible things

It should read "WARNING: Downloading this filter may explode your computer..."

Shouldn't make any difference for the presets.

cool

Are you making a new filter based on this one, or using it as is to cerate an animations?

In any case, why don't you post what you have so far, I'd love to see it

Cool.
Right now the only way to animate it is to manualy set image size and decay+smoke amount sliders.
Would love to see your work on it, sounds like a great time saver.

dactilardesign, I had a look at how you did the first 12 frames, and while it's a cool idea, I don't like how there's no consistency in the explosion between frames.
The thing is, for each frame, you clculate a new set of noises, and they don't match the previous frame.

Instead, here's my solution for the same. I have taken the same noise patterns on all frames, and just resized the result. Now you get a more consistent explosion.

Notice how I also attached the frame control to the decay of the explosion, so each frame also has some evolution to the flames.

Now comes the part where frames 13-24 come in. I think there should be some shrinkage, but not much, and also upward motion (also, not much). The decay should keep on going to total black smoke. I suppose the last few frames (4 or 5) should also include transparency.

I wish I knew how to make a simple logic machine using the math components, so you could have all 24 frames in one filter. I'll work on that, but don't hold your breath...

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I have freezed the shrapnel effect for now

I'm not happy with the way I did the shrapnel at all. If you can come up with better shrapnel, I'd love to see it.

Volumetric Explosions animation WIP.ffxml

Ups, I can't load your filter, it's 3.0

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I suppose the last few frames (4 or 5) should also include transparency.

From my experience, should be longer.

update!

Explosion Frame Generator_WIP.ffxml

*use the "animation 1/2" checker on my filter.

oh... looking forward to it.

Here's an animation I made with default preset. All I had to do, from start to finish, was to move the slider each frame and save it.

The horrible magenta background is for showing off the transparency

The animation looks a little crappy online... Frame rate is all wrong.

2:02 heere, going to bed, checking tomorrow.
I will download before you delete it to fix something!

There is something I miss from your approach, and it's the smoke and fire ball movement. And it's mainly what you need for a game, because the particle system makes the size change and if needed rotation, so you want an evolving particle.

Obviously your approach is far more smart. I will try to tweak it.

Preview.
btw, the filter renders much faster now thank you.