So you want to know how to make a smooth fire animation then you need to make the pattern repeat? Well mahjqa will now show you how. This is mentioned in the main fire mini-tutorial but is a point worth mentioning again due to its importance:
quote:use a tileable background for the flames. if you set the canvas to multiples of 128 (as noted before) the filters [filter>render>clouds] and [filter>render>difference clouds] give repeating patterns. you should test your animation with the layer set to normal, and you'll get something like this: