Planet death

by a.cangelosi

Introduction

In this tutorial for 3ds max we’ll start working on a new series related to VFX, particles and fluids. We’ll create a space scene simulating a planet death, something similar to Volcano death in Star Trek movie, but with differences based on our ideas.

What we’ll do in Part 1

In this video we’ll start creating the scene set, so we’ll create two planets, one similar to the Earth, and the second one, like an alien planet really near to the other. Earth-like planet shader will be simple and similar to the one we created in a past tutorial on MaxCookie, the alien planet material will be a little bit more complex and we’ll use a standard material with some procedural maps and NASA planet images to create it. We’ll use displacement too, to add more details. We’ll add a camera animation just to have a movement going near the death fx over the alien planet surface. We’ll prepare a basic illumination and setup for rendering out beauty pass and an object ID pass. At the end we’ll see a fast way to comp it and find a good look to continue on next part adding dynamic and FX using Krakatoa, FumeFX, PFlow and Thinking Particles.

 

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Discussion

30 Responses to “Planet death”
  1. hawkeye134
    Posts: 209

    This one looks interesting :) I Imagine if you don’t have those plugins (which I don’t) -that the effect- (in the video) can be achieved more or less in after effects etc.

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     Apr 26, 2012 at 12:57 pm
  2. Dominik Abart
    Posts: 6

    Great tutorial ;)

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     Apr 27, 2012 at 1:02 am
  3. Eric Elskamp
    Posts: 2

    Thanks that you start this great series

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     Apr 29, 2012 at 1:58 am
  4. colezero
    Posts: 6

    It looks gorgeous! I was listening to the Song “Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space” from spiritualized while the preview played and it fits perfectly. :D

    Great Tutorial Alessandro!
    After the Star-Explosion Series, how about a Desert-Series? Like how to create an ocean of sand with dunes and maybe a little oasis.
    Or how about an Antarctic-scene with big icebergs floating in the ocean?

    Have a nice weekend!

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     Apr 29, 2012 at 1:34 pm
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Thanks, these are really good suggestions ;) I’ll plan something related ;)

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       May 3, 2012 at 7:31 am
  5. lchronox
    Posts: 1

    Vulcan, not Volcano…

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     May 2, 2012 at 9:19 pm
  6. Chris Dennis
    Posts: 8

    How do you open combustion? I can’t figure it out.

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     May 9, 2012 at 10:29 pm
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi, I’ve it installed, so I just launched it before start recording ;)

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       May 10, 2012 at 2:45 am
      • Chris Dennis
        Posts: 8

        Thanks sorry another noob question but where can I get the plugin?

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         May 10, 2012 at 9:13 pm
      • Chris Dennis
        Posts: 8

        or output it too combustion

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         May 10, 2012 at 9:35 pm
      • Chris Dennis
        Posts: 8

        wow errr any chance I can delete my comments. I know what I am doing now.

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         May 10, 2012 at 10:31 pm
      • Wes Burke
        Posts: 52

        It is okay – we like to keep them so we can help others. What did you find out you were doing wrong? Thanks for hanging with us on the site!

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         May 14, 2012 at 3:17 pm
  7. Chris Dennis
    Posts: 8

    I didn’t have the software. I was able to find it but only a trial since Autodesk no longer has it for download on their site. The awful bit though is that because of that reason of having to use the trial I now have a hideous watermark on my final project. My only question now is if there is a chance to do an Autodesk Composite tutorial for it since that is that is the software that came with my download of 3DS Max. (You can see the watermark on the user submitted images since I am the only one that has posted atm)

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     May 14, 2012 at 8:12 pm
  8. M yamond
    Posts: 1

    It so Great tutorial..I like it..thank u

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     Jun 1, 2012 at 3:26 am
  9. Thyago
    Posts: 2

    Hey, I was wondering, why the 3ds max tutorials stopped coming out? It’s been almost all blender tutorials since a while.
    Miss them.

    Regards!

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     Jun 16, 2012 at 9:53 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi Thyago, we released tutorials with a lower speed during past weeks, but we continued ;) so please follow us directly on MaxCookie page too, in case you see no new tutorials on CGCookie main pages…

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       Jun 18, 2012 at 2:28 am
  10. Luke
    Posts: 5

    What scale are you using?

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     Jun 19, 2012 at 5:46 am
    • Luke
      Posts: 5

      I think I got it. I set it to Unit Scale “Meters” scale 0,254! (I looked at your Grid size!

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       Jun 19, 2012 at 6:14 am
      • Luke
        Posts: 5

        No..I keep getting 10 times of what you get. Like if you get 2 meters, I’d get 20 meters.

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         Jun 19, 2012 at 6:49 am
  11. Luke
    Posts: 5

    Still haven’t figured it out! :( Please help. :D

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     Jun 26, 2012 at 10:39 am
    • Luke
      Posts: 5

      I FINALLY GOT IT! :D

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       Jul 3, 2012 at 6:50 am
  12. imecus
    Posts: 4

    Thank you for the tutorial!

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     Aug 7, 2012 at 10:36 am
  13. l Vegas
    Posts: 10

    How i download Autodesk Combustion ????????????? pls help 1:13:00 1:14:00 ??? i dont understand please help video tutoral i want folowing u

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     Sep 26, 2012 at 9:18 am
    • a.cangelosi
      Posts: 918

      Hi, in the past Combustion was available as demo on the Autodesk website, now it is no more available, so I think you can’t find it. You can be sure that we’ll start to use other compositing software in coming videos, something like Composite and/or Fusion.

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       Sep 27, 2012 at 3:57 am
      • l Vegas
        Posts: 10

        Thank you wait for u :D

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         Sep 27, 2012 at 6:58 am
  14. alex simpson
    Posts: 8

    Very well, thank you

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     Jan 25, 2013 at 3:18 pm

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