Trying out spriteless smoke using old cloud trick and cloth sim

[johnl3d]

newclouds.mov

 

 

 

will tweak a little and post project file if interested

[robcat2075]

That works well!

 

I bet if you added an edge gradient to soften the sides that could be very convincing.

[johnl3d]

Its just animated material applied to a cloth tube with a fan force to keep it up ..trying to find a way to get maybe some displacement on tube to give it rough edges

[johnl3d]

here is a version with some displacement

 

newsmoke.mov