Quick Tip – Working Procedurally with Particle Flow

on Feb 28th 2010 with 9 comments
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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  1. Dave says:
    February 28, 2010 at 1:05 pm

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

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  2. GhostCamera says:
    February 28, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    Evan your not working on a Sunday again are you?

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  3. Heather says:
    February 28, 2010 at 4:20 pm

    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 ;)

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  4. LuiSerrano says:
    March 1, 2010 at 10:17 am

    oHH!! Thanks, i need this

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  5. GhostCamera says:
    March 1, 2010 at 2:45 pm

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

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  6. DNS says:
    March 2, 2010 at 10:56 am

    nice! great work

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  7. Philippe says:
    March 16, 2010 at 2:33 pm

    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

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  8. moh11raf says:
    May 5, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    thanks man ; great work …

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