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Anyone know of a good way to do pic related on the back of the tires? Like the vapor trail of water that's behind the wheels/car when driving on a rainy road?

Ideally I'd just use an alpha mapped plane with an animated texture of it, but I wouldn't begin to know how to search for something like that. I'm sure textures like that exist somewhere.
Not to mention a smoke sim seems like overkill, and the sim is confusing to say the least. It's not something I want to spend 3 hours tweaking 1 setting and baking over and over and then something breaks even though nothing is different.