Introduction

In this tutorial for 3ds max we’ll talk about a simple workflow to manage particles between different tools playing with fluids in PFlow, FumeFX and Frost.

What we’ll do

Our main purpose in this video is to understand how we can use different tools in 3ds max to manage particles, fluid simulation and particle caching. We’ll prepare a basic smoke simulation using an animated mesh as emitter in FumeFX. Then we’ll use this data to drive a Particle Flow system, useful to have a particle system to play with. To speed up particle data management, we’ll use Krakatoa to save cache in PRT format, then using the PRT Loader will move this data to Frost to simulate a fluid mesh to be rendered with VRay.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll finalize the Water and Firestorm series, working mainly on look development, some simulation tweaks and compositing.

What we’ll do

In final part of Water and Firestorm, we’ll tweak a little bit both FumeFX rendering parameters to have better look in rendering, and nice result on passes, so we’ll setup some Render elements to tweak it in compositing as specular, reflections, zdepth etc etc. Then we’ll move in Fusion to prepare the final comp.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll continue working at the Controlling fire and flames tutorial series. This time we’ll focus on particle tweaks and flame setup.

What we’ll do

In Part 2 of Controlling fire and flames we’ll start tweaking particle setup to have a better control over FumeFX flames later. Then we’ll start preparing 1st fire simulation tweaking FumeFX parameters to find good looking flame shape and look, we’ll check how it works with hi-res simulation too. Then we’ll create a new PFlow setup to control fire coming inside the room, using a FumeFX copy of previous simulation we’ll tweak some dynamic parameters to have a lower flame level and we’ll start adding smoke.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll continue working at the Water and Firestorm series, and this time we’ll focus on particle layers, camera animation and final tweaks.

What we’ll do

In part 4 of Water and Firestorm series, we’ll tune the lower FumeFX layer, then we’ll work at the camera animation to have a little movement, and we’ll check it using viewport preview. Then we’ll tweak the particles layers working mainly to have two ash layers one for glowing particles and one for black ashes. At then end we’ll start tuning rendering stuff and State Sets passes.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll continue the Water and Firestorm series, focusing on the wall of fire and adding more particle layers.

What we’ll do

In Part 3 of Water and Firestorm, we’ll work at the wall of fire FumeFX setup, we’ll fix all the fire parameters to have the rotating storm, with smoke simulation. We’ll tweak rendering colors, density, illumination and wavelet turbulence cache to have more details. Then we’ll start preparing some additional particle debris layer with Particle Flow.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max, we’ll continue working at the Water and Firestorm series, and we’ll focus on some water tweaks to have a more complex dynamic and fire tuning.

What we’ll do

In Part 2 of Water and Firestorm, we’ll tweak the sea level using two different HOT modifiers to have a more complex waves simulation, then we’ll tweak the FumeFX parameters to have a more detailed simulation for the basic fire level. Then we’ll be back on PFlow setup fixing it to have a good particle layer that can drive the fire/smoke simulation, and we’ll use it in a new FumeFX layer trying to have a good starting point to work at the firestorm wall. In Part 3 we’ll focus on this part of the simulation.

Introduction

In this series for 3ds max we’ll talk about water and fire, preparing an interesting tutorials to work on ocean simulation and a firestorm all around.

What we’ll do

In Water and Firestorm video we’ll try to create a night scene over the sea level with a firestorm all around. We’ll prepare the ocean level using the HOT, (Houdini Ocean Toolkit), plug-in, then we’ll start preparing the basic fire setup, it will be based on two layers, one done using an object emitter and FumeFX, the second one will be done using Particle Flow.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll work at the final part of Shooting plasma energy series. We’ll talk about finalizing Part 4 layers, rendering other passes and preparing final composition in Fusion.

What we’ll do in Part 5

In final part of Shooting plasma energy, we’ll check all rendered layers to be sure we have enough data to prepare final composition in Eyeon Fusion, then we’ll start importing these layers in the comp software trying to figure how a comp project can be done and managed in it. We’ll work mainly on merging nodes, masks, secondary effects as blurring an glowing. Then we’ll finalize last gaseous layer done using FumeFX instead of Krakatoa to have more details but faster. At the end we’ll obtain our final result with some minor tweakings in 2D.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll talk again about particles and fluid simulation about fire and smoke. We’ll use Particle Flow and FumeFX with different techniques to control fire behaviour.

What we’ll do

In Controlling fire and flames tutorial we’ll talk about fire and smoke, but this time we’ll see how to manage it and controlling it using different way, particles and textures. We’ll prepare a really simple room environment, and we’ll try to have fire coming from a wall hole, moving thru the floor and then creating a big fire area. We’ll prepare a PFlow setup moving over a mesh to create particles that we’ll control the FumeFX fluid emission, and we’ll add an animated gradient ramp over the ground to create a bigger flame area.

Introduction

In this video for 3ds max we’ll work to understand how to obtain a hires simulation and how to optimize it using post processing.

What we’ll do

In FumeFX Hires Simulation Optimization we’ll talk about hi details smoke simulation and optimization. We’ll prepare a setup to simulate a smoke “explosion” using a simple animated sphere with noise over as smoke emitter. Then we’ll tweak parameters to have speed up and slow down and then how to add a lot of details. Then we’ll see how to use post processing to optimize cache files.