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Set up your Maya options for animation
Move the time slider over to frame 1 at the bottom of the screen.
Change 24 fps to 30 fps over to the right on the time slider.
Lights
Add Lights to the scene. These will illuminate the smoke.
Render Test Settings
Press Render Settings icon upper right or middle 
Under the Arnold Renderer tab:
Under the Sampling arrow:
Set Camera (AA) to 2 (a little grainy, default 3)
Set Diffuse to 0 (default 2)
Set Specular to 0 (default 2)
Set Transmission to 0 (default 2)
Set SSS to 0 (default 2)
Set Volume Indirect to 0 (default 2)
Under Filter arrow
Set Width to 1
Under the Ray Depth arrow
Set Total to 0 (default 10)
Set Diffuse to 0 (default 1)
Set Specular to 0 (default 1)
Set Transmisssion to 0 (default 8)
Set Volume to 0 (default 0)
Set Transparency Depth to 0 (default 10)
Basic Fire Tutorial
Use the FX Module
Fluids->3D Container->
Uncheck Add Emitter:
Select the fluid object
Attribute Editor
Container Properties
Base Resolution 40 (default 10, higher for more detail and slower render)
Size 5 15 5
Add an object or more to the scene to emit fluids, place within the container.
Select the fluid, shift select emitter object(s)
Fluids->Add/Edit Contents->Emit from Object
Fluid Container Settings
Select the fluid
Contents Method
Temperature Dynamic Grid (default Off(zero))
Dynamic Simulation
Viscosity 0 (.05, default 0)
High Detail Solve All Grids (off, default Off)
Substeps 1 (default 1)
Solver Quality 20 (default 20)
Auto Resize
Select Auto Resize (default off)
Content Details
Density
Density Scale .5 (1, more dense, default .5)
Buoyancy 9 (1.2, default 1) rise faster
Dissipation .2 (.1, default 0) dies off faster
Noise 0 (2, default 0)
Velocity
Swirl 10 (1.5, default 0)
Noise 0 (1, can be higher, default 0)
Turbulence
Strength .01 (.1, default 0)
Temperature
Temperature Scale 1 (default 1)
Buoyancy 9 (1, default 3)
Dissipation .1 (default .1)
Turbulence .1 (2, default .1)
Noise 0 (1, default 0)
Fluid Shader Settings
You do not need to re-run the simulation for color changes.
Select the fluid
Shading
Transparency .2 (.4, color, default .25)
Dropoff Shape Cube (default Cube)
Edge Drop Off .1 (0, This effects the height, default .05)
Color
Selected Color .2 (default 1, white)
Incandescence
Make the value of orange 15 (push the color selector over limit, default .7)
Incandescence Input Temperature (default Temperature)
Input Bias .1 (-.088, try various numbers, default 0)
Opacity
Make the ramp spiky, try different patterns.
Play with the Input Bias try .3 (this can make a huge difference)
Shading Quality
Quality 5 (1, default 1)
Render Interpolator smooth (default linear)
Emitter Settings
Select the emitter, tab in the fluid or grouped under emitter object
Basic Emitter Attributes
Emitter rate 100 (default 100)
Select Use Distance (default not checked)
Max Distance 3
Fluid Attributes
Density/Voxel/Sec 1 (play with this, default 1)
Heat/Voxel/Sec 2 (1, default 1)
Fuel/Voxel/Sec 4 (1, default 1)
Fluid Dropoff 2 (0, default 2)
Keep Jitter checked (maybe no difference)
Fluid Emission Turbulence
Turbulence 1.2 (1, default 0)
 Play the animation simulation to see changes you have made.
Cache the Simulation
This can create some huge files,caching allows you to look at any frame in the sequence or batch render on multiple computers.
Select the fluid
nCache->Create New Cache->Maya Fluid
Create a folder for cache
2022.3 BUG
Batch Render bug, the first frame of any sequence has no fluid.
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