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> I am trying to create realistic steam on a cup of coffee. I am using a cone
> with fractal noise transparency and transparent edges. This works fine,
> except the top of my steam cone comes to an abrupt end.

When you setup your transparency map, make sure your surface has 100% transparency
and your texture value is something less than that (perhaps 30%). Then place
the texture center near the lower end of the steam cone. And finally, set the
texture fall-off such that the texture is completely diminished by the top
of the cone.
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