Realistic fire

[Remco]

Stuh, It's not really nice to say that i didn't listened to al the comments because i have read al the comments 2 or 3 times and i am now the whole day busy with this fire.

Could you tell me how did you made this? (maybe you have msn?)

[stuh505]

Remco,

I do not mean that you did not read or understand the comments.  Everyone seemed to comment on blurring etc and you didn't chose to do that, hence the comment about you choosing not to listen to their advice (which is, of course, your perogative).

Anyway, this is how I made the fire:

1) found a picture of a real fire
2) drew with pure white the very brightest parts
3) made a new layer underneath and drew the next brightest in yellow
4) made another layer underneath with some dark reds
5) used the smudge tool to blur the flames together as realistically as i could
6) made a new layer, and using mask mode I drew blobs of smoke and then filled them in with maroon
7) adjusted opacity of smoke layer
8) made billows of hot fire the same way
9) made a very small barely noticeable gaussian blur to remove the sharpness

[Remco]

There's the problem, my paint program does not support that functions.

[Andail]

I don't really think you have managed to catch the very essence of fire, even while bearing in mind you haven't access to advanced functions in your paint program.
Fire is much more chaotic, and each flame is individual, and it dances and swirls while stretching upwards. Your fire is much too stiff and generic, too dead.

Start by emulating cartoon fire; it's often very simple forms with just yellow and orange, but you can see how they make it seem alive and full of motion.

[Evil]

An example I did a while back. Very few colors, all done in paint. Hopefully that might spark something.

[stuh505]

the key is to use a lot of white for brightness rather  than yellow

[Kweepa]

You could try the new fire plugin (AGS_Fire).
Here's an example:

(Left: seed image, right: animated result)

See the Technical Forum for details and downloads.