Quick Tip – Working Procedurally with Particle Flow

on Feb 28th 2010 with 9 comments
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This entry is part 10 of 14 in the Evan Schaible Session
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A procedural workflow is essential in today’s huge pipelines, and can drastically speed up personal projects as well. In this Quick Tip we will look at the basics of working procedurally with particle systems inside 3ds Max, as well as how to set up a particle flow to be easily re-created with the push of a button.

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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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  • Dave

    Is there a way to send the preset to another machine if they are working remotely?

  • GhostCamera

    Evan your not working on a Sunday again are you?

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

      I know I am:)

  • http://www.shadesofadream.com/blog/ Heather

    Thank you Evan, that was Really useful; wish I’d known you could do that a while ago! I’ll be using that from now on ;)

  • LuiSerrano

    oHH!! Thanks, i need this

  • GhostCamera

    If anyones interested Allan Mckay did a more comprehensive review of the same topic on his site.

  • DNS

    nice! great work

  • Philippe

    cool, but enough hard to execute, for me,particule view is complexe,very complexe
    it’s very good to create our presets ourself!
    it’s a long way!ok thanks

  • moh11raf

    thanks man ; great work …