I’m making the rocket project from: http://en.9jcg.com/comm_pages/blog_content-art-105.htm
but I’m having trouble doing the color for the particles.

If you scroll down a bit passed midway through the page(you can Ctrl+F “Then click on the checker on the right side of Life Incandescence attribute. This will open create texture window. Create ramp texture.").

I already know my terrain doesn’t look correct, but that’s not my main problem right now. It says the particles are supposed to expand(which they do), then go from bright orange to orange to black. as time passes(they DON’T). Also, the particles are supposed to slowly fade away(they DON’T, mine only dissappears).

I attached my rocket file as zipped(since it didn’t allow me to attach .mb). I would really appreciate it if someone can help me learn what I’m doing wrong.  I’m doing this to gain more experience in Maya and so I can use this in my spanish film. All help is appreciated.

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