We'll build up the necessary scene assemblies, and then set up the necessary render passes to be sent to compositing.CmiVFX Presents 3DS Max Thinking Particles For FX Artists High Definition Training Videos for the Visual Effects Industry Princeton, NJ (July 22nd, 2014) cmiVFX heaves up a giant stepping stone of knowledge for all of the Newbies out there trying to get their head around Autodesk 3DS Max and Cebas Thinking Particles. The last lesson brings all the elements we've produced together for inspection and rendering. After that, some special attention is directed towards the options offered by post cache operations. Again, we produce several elements, starting with splashes, and we're composing them so they play nicely with the rigid bodies and the volumetrics.Ī second type of debris element - a trail - is added.

The strategic questions of arranging volumetrics are taken care of.Īugmenting the rigid body simulation with simple particle debris. We'll use the prepared rigid body sim at the appropriate level and generate particle sources to feed into a FumeFX simulation of dust clouds rising up.Ĭontinuing with dust, this class shows how to add two types of dust trails on the falling rigid bodies. With the base simulation done, we'll cover replacing the big pieces with separate sims - cutting and simulating each independently, to increase the detail and get a sense of scale.Īt this point we shift from rigid bodies to volumetrics, starting up with dust clouds. We set up some useful rules on fragmentation and activation, introducing one more level of detail. Working on the third level simulation, where fragments are small enough so we can use procedural fragmentation with VolumeBreaker. Then we look at implementing the second level simulation on top of the first level one, retaining the underlying motions and adding detail.

We use the main animation we have prepared and cut the pieces once more, to get detail on the edges. Good fragmentation practices, setting up useful animation controls and versioning the animation get covered. Then we get to planning it - analyzing the project, laying out all the steps towards the end result and the thought process behind them.ĭealing with with the primary cut of the big earth pieces and building a system to animate them in Thinking Particles. We start with an overview of the project, the goals of the course and the ideas behind it.

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