Quick Tip – Nodal Workflow with Particle Flow in 3ds Max

Quick Tip – Nodal Workflow with Particle Flow in 3ds Max

on Apr 1st 2010 with 5 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Autodesk 3ds Max
  • Difficulty Level: Intermediate
  • Completion Time: 15 - 30 min
  • Additional Files/ Plugins: None

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 12 of 14 in the Evan Schaible Session
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In this Quick Tip tutorial, we will look into the fundamentals of working efficiently inside of Particle Flow’s event based workflow. We will build a simple flow from the ground up, in order to gain an understanding of how the system works, and therefore enhance our future work with that knowledge.

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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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Discussion 5 Comments

  1. Bruno Américo says:
    April 1, 2010 at 7:25 am

    nice one :b

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  2. Stefan Frank says:
    April 1, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Nice beginner tutorial. The only thing to complain is your hasty mouse movement the whole time :) Give the little gnawer a break ;)

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    • Evan Schaible says:
      April 1, 2010 at 3:52 pm

      HA! Sorry about that. I was trying to pack all the info into a short amount of time. I will be the first to admit this was not one of my best videos, but thanks guys for the compliments. =)

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  3. Bobo says:
    April 1, 2010 at 11:30 pm

    Hi Evan, thanks for the plug ;)

    Just a note that the correct Boboland address is http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/ (boboland.com is a Chinese porn site ;) )

    Also, Krakatoa has always been a volumetric particle renderer (even when it was only point based). Now it adds a voxel mode which is kind of “even more volumetric” because the volumes don’t dissipate into points when you fly through them.

    Reply

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