Attn Don Corleone

[Dimeola]

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.have a couple ideas I want to do...this is the first...
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[Don Corleone]

Very, very impressive. :bow:

[Papewaio]

Add steam rising from the water... particularly from were the flames have already swept.

Also the flames look like they are comming from the water not the dragon... check out bunsens, candles and afterburners... the center is clear while the outside has the wavy flames.

BTW Very Impressive as is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dimeola]

...thank you...
...flames...well as I understood it many years ago...a dragon has an organ or gland inside that makes a substance kinda like greek fire or some such......it is this which the beast blows out its mouth and ignites whatever it hits. Thus what I tried to portray is such a substance being sprayed from the mouth as it flies.....and the impact area erupts in flames.
....yes small flames are indeed as you have described...but not a large conflagration. It is not (imho) a matter of taking a small single flame and enlarging it...but of a construction of many flame parts overlaping and eating at each other. They also tend...since the substance is still emitting from the dragon`s mouth to travel back up the line so to speak. The dragon will shut off the flow soonest so there is no backwash, which would be a waste.
...steam, indeed would be good detail....I thought that at the point of impact the water would flash and then steam after passing...not real sure. Tried it on the other area that is ruins but did not like the visual. lack of skill on my part I guess.
Dragon`s aim.....well as with any weapon from the air that is not pinpoint....there is a leadin.......we are seeing the hit just before the docks get theirs....he is walking it in so to speak. thank you for noticing.
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