Yeah, I’m still a bigger fan of my own fire than the water -I feel like better reflections on translucency would allow me to push it a bit further, but that’s up to Epic to sort out.
To a certain degree I actually want some repetition on the fire honestly. I watched a lot of Youtube videos on fireplace fires and campfires for reference and learned a lot :). Sometimes our expectations of nature are more interesting than nature itself - sometimes more boring! See if you can spot the repeating flame elements in this “unrealistic” fire. 3 solid hours and the flame shapes really don’t vary much over the course of a minute. After about 5 minutes they add in a second log and that changes things.
With a large bonfire repetition isn’t so common, but with smaller camp fires and fireplace fires there tends to be certain flame “spikes” that repeatedly flicker over and over due to the unchanging shape of the fuel source and low intensity of the burn.