Cigarette smoke material with cycles

Question

I'm doing a blender project with a cigarette smoke. I don't use smoke simulation, the smoke is just a mesh simulated with soft body. Here is the mesh:

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I've made a cool texture with blender internal : enter image description here

But now I want to recreate the same, or the closer possible, material in cycles. Can somebody help my I'm really new to cycle material.

possible duplicate of How to mix shaders depending on the direction normals are facing? — gandalf3, Jun 21 '14 at 00:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '14 at 15:29

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This will do what you want: enter image description here

The Color Ramp will allow you to control/fine-tune the amount of transparency.

answered Jun 20 '14 at 15:29

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Cigarette smoke material with cycles

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