How to Create a Realistic Candle Scene with 3ds Max and FumeFX
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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One of the things humans can look forever at… Beautiful
ohh i can download.
But video does not work….
i cant download video
would somebody fix this video!!
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…….
Not sure whats wrong with the video…
Maybe just download it in the meantime.
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 ?
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.
I’v downloaded it and its not working either.
Ill check up again later…
This video obviously does not work, not here and not after i’v downloaded to my HD.
Looking into it
I’v managed to get it to work by manualy changing suffix to .wmv
Thats odd. I am pretty sure I sent a flash video. Interesting.
The preview looks good but I can’t view or download the video.
Hi,
will this tutorial be fixed? It´s obvious that it doesn´t play nor can it be downloaded. Any comments Evan?
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.
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
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.
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
Ok, both the Flash player, and the download should be working now! Thanks for your patience everyone:)
nice work mate!
Thanks for the work
not wrking….:(
Working fine on my comp. Not sure what to say…
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!!!!
A bit boring.
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
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
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
thanks man