April 2014 Tips and Tricks - Playing With Fire (In a Fun, Harmless way) with Xara

[handrawn]

excellent candle Rik, but I would expect nothing less

thanks for the tutorial Bob

just in case Larry releases the beast maybe I had better make myself scarce....

[wizard509]

No don't do that handrawn, you are too helpful. I'ii try to be good, promise.

[nobbyy]

Hi all

I would like to create a flickering fire effect for a log burner site - Csehz, I was wondering if you would mind explaining how you created the 'wave' effect you produced please?

[csehz]

Hi,

As I recall this attached was the final .xar file so you can analyse in details, basically after creating Bob's fire color pattern, entered the text and substracted it from two a black and white rectangle to creating a 'text hole', and behind of that the fire wave is moving

Fire_animation4.xar



Sure could be also named that wave pattern and make it fluid, playing with the display times to have some irregular rhythm, however in this case I just left the frames jumping without that