Create a Marching Army Animation using Particles in 3ds Max
As you may already know, particles can be used to do just about anything you could possibly imagine. In this tutorial, we’ll be taking a look at just one of the very cool ways particles can be used to make your life much much easier. Of course we won’t be able to take a look at all the things that can be done with particles, but we are going to create something very exciting….a marching 3d army where we have full control over the position and animation of the soldiers!
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That looks cool! I dont use 3Ds Max but that looks awesome!
Cool Dude . Nice work u done
Great one! Exactly what I’m looking for :)
Thanks mate :)
hey Stefan I like your work. we should link up.
You spelt exciting as “exiting”.
Good job on pointing out that he “spelt” that wrong. That wuz an importent comment.
Haha… sorry. Did you spelled “spelt” ironically? ;)
Great tutorial, thanks
hah… you wondered why there are only 5 soldiers in the viewport and 9 in the rendering…. check out the percentage of particles in the modify bar when your pflow is selected
looking great !! thanx a million.
Heey,
Thanks for the great comments. I was wasn’t sure how to spell exiting so thanks for the comment. I’ll remember it forever :)
looks awsome , :)
Buddy, thats a very nice tutorial. I needed something like that for a very long time. Thanks a lot..
Oh yeah stupid. The viewport shows only something like 50% of the particles. Thanks! :)
This… is.. so… COOL!!!!! I HAVE been looking FOREVER for a tutorial on this!!!!!!!!! THANKS A BILLION MAN!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! :D
on the image two heads O.O? (third on the middle)
I can see that too! xD double head , perhaps a failed clone :P
looks very good. I’m willing to try this tutorial. thanks
yeah uhm…… it looks cool, but i dont think i will be able to do all that shit. but that doesn’t matter.
Great tutorials
3Ds Max is the only reason i’d have to keep a windows pc around. Well that and Modern Warfare 2 haha. I need to get back into this, been a long time. And there certainly seems to be better learning material around these days
wow that so cool thanks…so much
awesome tutorial ! Just great!
thanks man…..
I don’t want to spam but I think this will be a useful spam… lol !
Every army needs a characters sooo I have this little blog
with lots of free rigged 3d models for 3ds max ,
check it out if you want (for link click on name)
Really thanks for this tutrial. it was so usfull for me thanks so much:)
Thanks
In first video its wrong that LoR scene exist millions particles.
I watch portfolio from one guy who work with this. They made a sprite base flow and combine it with real time footages.
nice tutorial….. but why are the others characters can not walk in biped mode mixer…!!!!
pls halp
I want to work in 3d studio max house elevation & interior pleas call me