Desert Explosion with FumeFX Part 1

by a.cangelosi

In this video tutorial for 3ds max, we’ll start working on a new tutorial series. We’ll create a desert like environment using simple primitives as planes, then we’ll create a desert shader using the Arch&Design material with some procedural maps and we’ll prepare it to be rendered with Mental Ray. We’ll prepare the lighting setup using MR Sun and MR Sky, with some adjustment to give it
a desert look. We’ll start to create a basic explosion setup with the 1st shock wave layer. We’ll use Particle Flow to give it the basic smoke/dust movement and prepare our 1st simulation.

FumeFX is required for this tutorial

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22 Responses to “Desert Explosion with FumeFX Part 1”
  1. Adrien Peze
    Posts: 1

    Thank you very much! Great job! :)

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     Jun 23, 2011 at 6:02 pm
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Thanks to you ! We are preparing more FX related tutorials !

      Stay tuned

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       Jun 24, 2011 at 1:13 am
  2. Danny Hart
    Posts: 1

    brilliant lesson, thank you! :D
    looking forward to the rest or the series

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     Jun 27, 2011 at 1:40 am
    • a.cangelosi
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      Thanks Danny !

      Part 2 will come soon, and in the meantime we are preparing a lot of new FX related tutorials !

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       Jun 27, 2011 at 4:57 am
  3. John
    Posts: 1

    Intanto ti ringrazio per il tutorial (scrivo in italiano perche ho visto che lo sei anche tu), comunque non riesco a capire una cosa, quando fai le montagne e le renderizzi per la prima volta (mi sembra piu o meno quando il video sta sui 20:00 min) nel render le montagne ti si vedono sopra tutti gli oggetti, poi non so cosa premi XD e qunado renderizzi per la seconda volta non appaiono sopra gli oggetti (poi le modifichi per farle vedere in lontananza) io non capisco come hai fatto (sono un principiante) e ti sarei veramente grato se me lo spiegheresti, grazie mille in anticipo

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     Jul 5, 2011 at 9:26 am
    • Michael
      Posts: 1

      I have same problem like U. While rendering (20:27) I see all 3 pots inside the mountain I’ve just created, and I cant change it. As far all was clear and very helpful but I cant manage this part. Looking forward for help

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       Sep 4, 2011 at 3:24 pm
  4. vijay s
    Posts: 2

    hai Cangelosi thank you so much for your tutorials i love them, and i learn lots of things with your help.
    btw i have a problem with this one when i simulate the fumefx 3ds max crashes after simulating few frames i don’t know. why it says
    “an error has occurred and the application will now close”
    i use
    win 7 32 bit
    ram 4 gb
    Total available graphics memory 2301 MB

    do u have any idea for this one??

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     Oct 19, 2011 at 7:44 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi, thanks for the comment. It could be due to you ram amount, have you tried to have a really low resolution for FumeFX grid ? How much free space do you have in your HD where you are saving FumeFX cache ?

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       Oct 19, 2011 at 8:44 am
      • vijay s
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        thanks for your response. i had 14 gb free space, and i saved it in c drive. but just now i installed max in my brother’s system which mostly has same configuration, except it is 64 bit and it did the job. it is working fine now. thanks

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         Oct 19, 2011 at 11:14 pm
      • a.cangelosi
        Posts: 918

        Understood, it is due to 64bit memory management maybe. But glad that now it is solved.

        Thanks

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         Oct 20, 2011 at 2:57 am
  5. Gregory Hooker
    Posts: 6

    When I render out the preview for the smoke, I do not see anything. I never get smoke/dust cloud.

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     Nov 1, 2011 at 11:48 am
  6. Konstantinos Zarafonitis
    Posts: 5

    Hi! i have a problem.No matter how close i bring the mountains to the camera,i cant see them.even if i put them on the teapod(the one closer to the camera).Anyone knows what to do?

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     Jan 22, 2012 at 7:43 pm
  7. stelvio
    Posts: 4

    Hello, I am stelvio, I’m Italian and I find very interesting your video tutorials, I wanted to ask a clarification on Desert Explosion with FumeFX Part 1, I come to a point where I do the render of the scene and when I go to run after applying fume fx and dayliht I get an error MSG 0.0 error: Atmospheric “FusionWorks Renderer” is not supported I read already an answer to this problem is similar to mine but I can not solve. Use fume fx 2.2 I repeated this several times during the tutorial but nothing I have a workstation with 24GB of RAM card quadro 2000 i7 cpu and I used 3ds max 2012, if I would like to thank allegari the stage where I get the error so you can see the screens thank you.
    ps I also thank you oper the way you work and the possibility that the users of your writings to assimilate tutorial clear and especially non-binding short time and download not granted, I follow other sites where they are registered, but I must confess that what you Submit, and I also say on a personal basis is really what I was looking for.

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     Aug 29, 2012 at 10:50 am
  8. stelvio
    Posts: 4

    ok I sent you pictures at your email a.cangelosi @ cgcookie.com, I send the attached 3ds scene, thank you for your kind attention

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     Aug 31, 2012 at 2:46 am
    • stelvio
      Posts: 4

      hello I wanted to ask without being misunderstood if there were any news on my question and confirm that I had received attachments hello and as always thanks

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       Sep 9, 2012 at 7:58 am
      • a.cangelosi
        Posts: 918

        Hi, sorry, but I was really busy to check it. I’ll try to check it this week. Cheers

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         Sep 10, 2012 at 1:14 pm

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