Using Mesh as an emitter for animal-shaped clouds?

[Skeletalsabaki]

New user here. I need to create clouds in the shapes of various animals, like this:

I started with the cloud generator ember scene.

I imported a simple horse mesh as a .OBJ from Maya. I can get it to act as the emitter but the sim loses too much detail. The shape of the cloud is too billowy, I can’t really see the silhouette of the horse:

I’m hunting and pecking at different settings in each node, but can any one make some recommendations to set this up? I am attaching the .ember file and the horse mesh in this link.

Thanks in advance

[jasonkey]

That cloud generator setup uses some combustion techniques that you wouldn’t want if you’re trying to maintain a specific model shape. It’s just a rough start but I made a setup that would work better (link below)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b69cEOSbnwE425ojFIaW6OXXPNkdc6jD/view?usp=sharing

[Skeletalsabaki]

Thank you so much!
How did you make the mesh invisible?

[itsbeenfun]

Hi @jasonkey is this setup still available? Would love to know how you achieved this. Thank you!

[notwillclarke]

hi there, here is a similar setup! Discord