VolumetricFire is a JS lib ported from Alfred Fuller's Real-time Procedural Volumetric Fire Demo to Mesh class for three.js.

VolumetricFire does not use particle system. Because maximum pointSize of particles( a.k.a. VTF ) is limited and uncontrollable. Therefore, VolumetricFire is not limited by maximum size.

You can use fire meshes of VolumetricFire provides with position.set(), rotate.set(), scale.set() and other THREE.Mesh features.

Usage

Include both three.js and VolumetricFire.js

<script src="../lib/three.min.js"></script>
<script src="../VolumetricFire.js"></script>

Then, write JS code with three.js as usual. VolumetricFire class provides a fire mesh. you can add it to THREE.Scene instance.

<script>

// set path to texture images
// either relative or absolute path
VolumetricFire.texturePath = '../textures/';

var width = window.innerWidth;
var height = window.innerHeight;
var clock = new THREE.Clock();
var scene = new THREE.Scene();
var camera = new THREE.PerspectiveCamera( 60, width / height, .1, 1000 );
camera.position.set( 0, 0, 3 );
var renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
renderer.setSize( width, height );
document.body.appendChild( renderer.domElement );


var axisHelper = new THREE.AxisHelper( 5 );
scene.add( axisHelper );


var fireWidth  = 2;
var fireHeight = 4;
var fireDepth  = 2;
var sliceSpacing = 0.5;

var fire = new VolumetricFire(
  fireWidth,
  fireHeight,
  fireDepth,
  sliceSpacing,
  camera
);
scene.add( fire.mesh );
// you can set position, rotation and scale
// fire.mesh accepts THREE.mesh features
fire.mesh.position.set( 0, fireHeight / 2, 0 );


( function animate () {

  requestAnimationFrame( animate );

  var elapsed = clock.getElapsedTime();

  camera.position.set(
    Math.sin( elapsed * 0.1 ) * 8,
    Math.sin( elapsed * 0.5 ) * 10,
    Math.cos( elapsed * 0.1 ) * 8
  );
  camera.lookAt( scene.position );

  fire.update( elapsed );

  renderer.render( scene, camera );

} )();

</script>

• example1: basic usage
• example2