How to get a lavalight effect?

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Hey guys,

i want to have a lava light in my scene but i dont know how to get the effect inside the lava light like you see on the picture below:

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i hope you can help me. it also shall move up and down and change the shapes very smooth.

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If you don’t need to get too close to it you might try rendering it out beforehand and using a bilboard, so it would be an animated texture that would turn to face the player. Wouldn’t be super accurate, but might be fine for your purposes.