How to Create a Realistic Candle Scene with 3ds Max and FumeFX

on Dec 28th 2009 with 32 comments
This entry is part 3 of 14 in the Evan Schaible Session
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When dealing with FumeFX, and other effects generating tools, it can be said that knowing how to convincingly merge your effects into your 3d scene is just as important as knowing how to create the effects themselves. In this tutorial we will take a look at a little explored area of FumeFX, at least when it comes to tutorials, multi-pass compositing.

We will study this subject inside of Toxic, Autodesk’s HD compositing package, and create render passes specific to FumeFX. We will also take another look at how to make an elegant candle flame and add it to a scene inside of 3DS Max.

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Evan Schaible is a fluids/particle artist and technical director from Los Angeles. Being currently unemployed, he is looking for full time staff work, as well as honing his own skills by doing freelance technical direction, visual effects, and occasionally even motion graphics and visualization. He runs a training website that can be found at: www.ParticleFlow.net, and his blog can be found at: www.evanschaible.com.  

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  • Goldberg

    One of the things humans can look forever at… Beautiful

    • http://aehelping.co.cc Alex

      ohh i can download.
      But video does not work….

  • http://aehelping.co.cc Alex

    i cant download video :(

  • Daniel Grid

    would somebody fix this video!!

  • RZX

    hey daniel grid and others just play the video and later if u have realplayer sd an icon pops up in the topright corner of the vid saying DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO…..click that and the download starts and it will be saved in my documents-my videos-real player downloads-enjoy…….

  • http://www.ParticleFlow.net Evan Schaible

    Not sure whats wrong with the video…

    Maybe just download it in the meantime.

  • nour el-islam

    thanks a lot evan this is amazing tut the video work well , i have a question please .how can i find fx fume to work with it in 3ds max 9 ?

  • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

    I am pretty sure that the newest versions are backwards compatible. 1.5 should work with 9, but if not you may want to send an email to sitni sati as im sure that they can dig into legacy versions for you.

  • Cube01

    I’v downloaded it and its not working either.
    Ill check up again later…

  • Cube01

    This video obviously does not work, not here and not after i’v downloaded to my HD.

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Looking into it

  • Box01

    I’v managed to get it to work by manualy changing suffix to .wmv

    • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

      Thats odd. I am pretty sure I sent a flash video. Interesting.

  • Moritz

    The preview looks good but I can’t view or download the video.

  • Marcus

    Hi,
    will this tutorial be fixed? It´s obvious that it doesn´t play nor can it be downloaded. Any comments Evan?

  • Florin

    I cannot play or download this video. Can anyone fix this, i would really like to use fumefx to create some candles in a project of mine.

  • http://www.evanschaible.com Evan Schaible

    I sent over the re-exported video. Im not too sure whats going on. Sorry.

    In the meantime go ahead and check out my FumeFX training course at:
    www (dot) ParticleFlow (dot) net

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      I actually re-uploaded the newest version of the video early in the week but there still seems to be a problem. I don’t believe it is an issue with the video however, and am currently waiting for Bliptv to reply to my tech support ticket. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully we will have this resolved soon.

      • Marcus

        Thank you for your attempts to make this work. And thanks for your tutorials Evan, they help me a lot. I am currently searching for your Training DVDs. Keep up the good work!
        Greetings from Germany,
        Marcus

  • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

    Ok, both the Flash player, and the download should be working now! Thanks for your patience everyone:)

  • Shatron

    nice work mate!

  • israel

    Thanks for the work

  • malinda

    not wrking….:(

    • http://kaleb-3d.com Kaleb Aylsworth

      Working fine on my comp. Not sure what to say…

  • Angel

    Hey!!! really nice tutorial!… thank you… just have a question… whats the adress of the page you said you download your model?????? I dont really undestand it when you say it! :S

    Please!!!!

  • Ant

    A bit boring.

  • Blue Rose

    Hi,

    I am sure this must be a very nice tutorial but it would be great if we could get more step-by-step tutorials as it is so much easy to go back and forth while making these things for easy reference.

    Thank you so much!

    Kind regards,
    Blue Rose

  • Silver Wolf

    I’d be grateful if this had some written instructions as the school computers don’t allow video downloads. And this is one of the better looking flames I’ve come across in a tutorial

  • Reaver Daniel

    Hi there!

    This tutorial is very interresting, but i cannot find where to get the files you use from. If you haven’t posted them yet, can you please share them? It is very hard to pickup the scene if one doesn’t have those files and it`d make things much more easier for the rest!

    Kind regards,
    Daniel

  • Sauluus

    thanks man

  • tom

    Too much waffle, got bored after 5 minutes of nothing happening…

  • http://twitter.com/NiV_Studio Jun Aguelo

    This tutorial is good as USELESS! Next time you will make a tutorial be direct to the point. Look at the tutorials on Digital Tutors, Lynda dot com and Videocopilot so you will get an idea.