Playing with Krakatoa and PFlow – part 2
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In this tutorial for 3ds max we’ll finalize the Playing with Krakatoa series. We’ll continue to work a little bit on PFlow setup, trying to find the best compromise in rendering using Krakatoa. Then we set the shading properties in Krakatoa finding a good look with not so much particles in rendering to be fast, and we’ll add some different colored light sources. Final step will be to move the frames in Combustion to play a little bit with different tools to find our final look.
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Wow, another super tutorial, Thank you very much, very informative and super results!
Hi Johan, thanks. As you know we are working a lot on Krakatoa/particles tutorials, ans soon we’ll release more complex example.
I’m waiting your Krakatoa tut, very impressive and easy to learn PF & Krakatoa. Thank you for your tutorials Alessandro=))
Thanks a lot…
Thanks to you to be there ! You know, it is a pleasure for us to release videos for you
[Referring to the video sample] It’s a very pretty abstract piece of art Alessandro
reminds me of a solution dissolving in water.
Thanks, in the future we’ll prepare more complex abstract art done with Krakatoa and PFlow, that’s just an introduction !
NOW this is what i am talking about!! Cool tuts!! keep it coming!! I saw the other one on vimeo with the warner logo…part 2 is coming soon i guess right?
Hi Daniel, thanks for the comment. Sure, Part 2 will be finished next week and will be published just after Part 1
If you have suggestions for more tutorials you like to see, please do it
Thanks
a very good tutorial….a question…any chance to include the source files for old versions such as Max 2010..thank you in adv
Hi, thanks for the comment. Starting from next tutorial we’ll deliver the scene for 2010, 2011 and 2012. Actually if you need this tutorial for 3ds max 2010, please send me a mail at [email protected]
thanks
Great and very useful tutorial. Keep it up!
Thanks to you for the support !
Alessandro, thanks for the tutorial. Krakatoa is a very complex plugin and with your tuts is more easy to start with it. When a tutorial combining PFlow Krakaoa and Real Flow?
Hi Marc,
thanks to you for the comment. Hope you like our tutorial series and hope you’ll continue to support us in the future ! We are planning a series of tutorials about RealFlow, and some of it with Krakatoa too. Hope to release it soon.
I currently work full-time in a small animation/vfx company. But I’d like to do a tut or two for cgcookie. Just love this place. vimeo.com/serdaryerdelen/videos. Here’s a link. I’m planning to make one-or-two tuts about Realflow/Thinking Particles 4/Krakatoa.
Sorry if this comment is misplaced. Kind of a fast post at work.
Hey Serdar! Sure thing send me an e-mail at [email protected] and look forward to talking more on it.
hi, i’m currently following your tutorial, and something weird happens. I waqs going to use the exact same values as you, the problem is that when i add the first spawning, i get an amazing amount of particles, much much more than you did. I had to lower the values or i wouldn’t have been able to work properly. Did i do something wrong?
Hi, thanks for posting. The problem can be due to scene scaling, but to be more precise, can you send me your scene at [email protected] so I can check it ?
Thanks
nevermind, i thought the huge amount of particles was the main problem, but it seems that pflow is not designed to work on AMD processors and ATI GPUs. Also the fact that this plugin is singlethreaded doesn’t help. I guess i’ll have to use fumefx or thinking particles, pflow is not for my machine.
understood. PFlow can be really really slow due to single thread, some tricks to use it with millions particles :
1) use a really low amount of particles visible in viewport ;
2) never try to render a single frame to see how it look, because it will be really slow, it needs to simulate all the frames before your frame ;
3) if you need to check how it look to a frame like 50 and more, it is better to render it from frame 0 it will be a faster way, because it will simulate frame by frame and you have not to wait the entire amount of time for just 1 frame….
more to come…
In lasst part we prepair the setup fo partical flow/ You remembers thats the result/ Pls tell we where we prepair the setup) Thx
Hi Alex, can you explain me better what you need ? I’d like to help you, but please write me a more precise message, you can contact me using mail too at [email protected]
Thanks
the second part is totally different from the first one..Am a newbie,,i dont know how u set it up..the values u used,,,stuff like that..please need some help.
I can’t download the video and source file =/
I get this message:
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The resource could not be found.
Could you please reupload it?
Thanks in advanced!
Thanks, we are solving the problem.
I’ve get the same problem, can’t download the video and the source file for better understand the exercice.
Hi Mathias, thanks for your post, we are trying to understand why it is not downloadable, stay tuned for a solution