Smoke gets in your eyes, but not your gpu?

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2 quick smoke questions.

  1. I was watching soem great youtube blender tuts and the guy who was doing them (A really great guy, btw) said you can’t render smoke with a gpu. Can ahyone fill me in on this a bit and is it on the 'to be worked on" slate for blender upgrades?

  2. I saw an actual large, smokey explosion on tv and noticed that the top oif the black cloud was illuminated by the sunlight forming a nice contrast with the lower parts all by itself. having never done smoke in blender yet i was wondering if blender sunlight will do this by itself or does it need some sort of setting to make it happen?

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Here are the 2015 goals, don’t see gpu smoke on it, so it’s probably cpu for a while. :no:

Sure a sun lamp can illuminate the top of a smoke cloud and make it contrast, why not? You may have better luck with smaller mesh lights whose falloff is more pronounced though.