Procedural Pixel Art Fire

Date of Recording: 2020-11-23
This week, I worked on a procedural fire effect. It is a typical game-engine procedural particle-based fire (no Navier-Stokes fluid sim) rendered to a buffer and then post-processed onto the viewport with a color quantization shader.
This method of rendering gives a pretty good balance between flame detail complexity and particle-system simplicity, allowing for this torch flame effect to run on only 100 active particles. Different parts of the fire (core, flames, embers) run at different frame rates to emulate a hand-animation look.
I think there are still improvements to be made in the look of the flames, but this seems ok for a first-pass attempt.

[@Yanthir]

The lighting is absolutely stunning. The fire itself could use some tweaks though - natural fire isn't as red as shown here, more orange with brownish-red edges. The colors also stand out a lot because they are much more saturated than everything around them, making the fire look glued on like a sticker. If it was toned down a bit, it would fit into the scene much better.

[@t3ssel8r]

thanks for the suggestions, you're right, the colors need some more work

[@FundamSrijan]

It's the most beautiful technique ised by artists - "*Hue Shifting*"

[@shadamethyst1258]

I'd try having multiple light sources, to make the shadows below the fire less "jumpy"

[@CyberVirtual]

Absolutely breathtaking...
the lighting is so professional I wish I had money to to fund this for the intro of an indiegame.

[@shahriarshatil9486]

Man, your game is gonna be so coool

[@Desaturated_Will]

That's actually really cool

[@largeshadow7017]

Beautiful, fine art to say the least.

[@uwufemboy5683]

It’s wild how much you can do just by scrolling perlin noise :D

[@iamsamson]

Id lower the framerate of the fire to settle it better to the overall look

[@SquidLight]

Looks great

[@jakecomay9138]

so pretty :D

[@BeingFriends]

This deserves more views holy heck!

[@zarakikenpachi1773]

Hey how to create this effect? I mean to say, how to achieve the interactiong of the light with the surfaces? The way the light flickers and the shadows change along with the fire

[@RTWrename]

dude plz make some tutorials when you finish your studies

[@inventorel1232]

Amazing fire and light interaction!! new sub