Addon idea/request

Do you know the old 3dsMax addon Afterburn? It could do this with NO simulation: youtube.com/watch

As you may know its VERY hard and time consuming to get this effect with smoke sims.

I think Blender should be able to do something similar with volume rendered particles. Maybe using GeoNodes.

The controls it needs are:

• Control colour with particle age
• Control size with particle age
• Control noise scale with particle age
• There needs to be two noise patterns with variable detail
• Each noise pattern needs to have a ‘Drag’ parameter which varies its inheritance of the particle movement vector. This would produce the rolling effect around each particle.

I’m sure this addon would be a commercial success if it can be replicated.

Let me know if you have any questions.