2D Fire with Smoke

So I wanted to do a video tutorial on tips and tricks about maya fluid fire. It was going to be awesome, but I couldn't get the video capture software working. I was going to show you how to make this:

But alas it is not so.

If you are learning fluids I would suggest starting out in 2D. 2D boxes are much faster to sim and it's much easier to see what the parameters are doing. Once you understand the 2D fluids then taking it to 3D is just adding another dimension.Well at least, that's the simple way of saying it.