# Smoke trail **URL:** \ **Category:** Rendering\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, UE4, question\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109 "2014-11-04T11:29:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neo0eve](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@neo0eve](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/neo0eve)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/1 "2014-11-04T11:29:15Z")
Hi all, I need your help I need an animation in which a character is smoking so I need a trail of smoke. It is like making a trail and link it the bone, but what I have isn´t as a realistic smoke, I dont know how achieve it… I don´t know if the trails particles support materials with textures. I followed the tutorials from epic and get the trail, but that doesn´t seems Smoke, the most I´ve got is what you see in the picture, on the other hand, I tried to mix for a test smoke test scene of epic, but I failed to display properly, so in the picture aren´t conected to the main node. If you have any resources, assistance, book, video or anything that will help me I will be very grateful, thank you very much guys! The picture of my test: [http://puu.sh/cChzc/e6306de82d.jpg](http://puu.sh/cChzc/e6306de82d.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Luos](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/luos/32/918700_2.png) [@Luos](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Luos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/2 "2014-11-04T17:18:32Z")
You dont need the trail effect, you can just have a regular smoke particle effect for something like cig smoke. Gpu particles with vector field come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![neo0eve](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@neo0eve](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/neo0eve)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/3 "2014-11-05T00:42:26Z")
Do you know where I can find more information about smoke, particle / material ? thank you! :3 ---
**Author:** ![Luos](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/luos/32/918700_2.png) [@Luos](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Luos)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/4 "2014-11-05T02:08:09Z")
Uhm, vector fields depend on the 3d app you are using, here is a video (with plugin) for 3dsmax: [3dsMax to UE4 Vector Fields - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1brvWy3SYY) but if you google for maya, blender etc im sure you can find something cool. In the example showcase map for particles you can find a few fire and smoke particle , these would be able to show you what you need. random fire tutorial: [UE4 - Making Fire - Screen Space GPU Particles - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZLbGvtyS6g) (I am sure you can find more if you google “Ue4 smoke particles”. Most of these tutorials also learn you how to set the materials 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neo0eve](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@neo0eve](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/neo0eve)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/5 "2014-11-08T12:31:31Z")
Ohhh! thank you :3 ---
**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_642ca581](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_642ca581](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_642ca581)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/6 "2014-11-08T12:52:50Z")
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_0df12f74](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_0df12f74](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_0df12f74)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/7 "2014-11-09T23:24:32Z")
I also highly recommend you check out the video series created by Epic on how to make particles, best practices, and more. It’s a really fun tutorial created by Zak at Epic, see here: Hope that helps! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![neo0eve](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@neo0eve](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/neo0eve)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/smoke-trail/298109/8 "2014-11-10T22:02:22Z")
Thank you so much guys! you´re amazing! :3