Creating smoke effect with Adobe Dimension
03/06/2021
Since Dimension doesn't support any sort of simulations such as VDB, I tried to create smoke/cloud effect with other ways. In Dimension, I used image of a cloud as Opacity map on a Plane. The results were surprisingly good even though you have some limitations since it's basically a 2D image in a 3D environment! Other objects such Spheres helps a bit if you want to have some curvature in your smoke effect.
You can read the full tutorial from here!
Plane's properties
Setting | Value |
---|---|
Opacity | Your opacity map image. (White with a black background.) |
Roughness | ~20% |
Glow | ~20% |
Translucence | 1 |

Setting the opacity map and other properties on a Plane.

Playing around with the opacity Plane.

Close-up of the smoke effect.
Check out my Behance to see full project.