Hey guys, can anyone help in in figuring out why Maya keeps crashing on m when ever i try adding a smoke effect to a BBQ grill animation. I have a fire effect on the charcoal to simulate the cooking of the steak on the grill. Since i tried adding a smoke effect and run the sequence Maya will slow to a crawl if not freeze on me unless i wait like 10 or 20 minutes for it to stop. Any ideas as to what i am doing wrong? I’ve tried reducing some attribute setting for the smoke particle but still no luck.

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Did you use [Dynamics] Effects->Create Smoke to create the effect? Which settings did you use? What is the resolution of the sprite images?