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Offline Grey Wolf

Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
And anyone know how to make beams w/o photoshop?
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Offline Nico

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
yes: either use two volumetric directional lights, either make a cylinder and apply a glow to it  
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Offline Fineus

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
And theres probably loads of tutorials around on Google.com and so on...

 

Offline Ryx

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
Create a super spray Particle System.
   Set the speed way up (150+).
   The particle type i use is facing.
   Make sure the particles doesn't grow or anything.
*Edit: you may want to play around with some of these settings too.*  

Assign a Raytrace map to it.
   Give it a material effects ID (say 1).
   You may want to change Diffuse colour, luminosity and transparency.

Open Video-Post.
   Add a scene event.
   Add an image filter event -> choose lens effects glow.

Tweak.  

Here's a quick one i made
     
Note: I use MAX 4

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Offline wEvil

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
use the combustion environment effect with a sphere gizmo.

make sure the detail isnt too high

create an omni light and add a volume effect and set the attenuation parameters to the desired range.

create 6 spray particle systems and apply glow.

finally, use the particle array system to frag your object and use the visiblity track in trackview to make the origional geometry invisible.

voila.

a nice explosion with chunks.


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Offline Kazan

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
man this shizat sounds easy in max
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Offline Nico

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
 
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Originally posted by wEvil:
use the combustion environment effect with a sphere gizmo.

make sure the detail isnt too high

create an omni light and add a volume effect and set the attenuation parameters to the desired range.

create 6 spray particle systems and apply glow.

finally, use the particle array system to frag your object and use the visiblity track in trackview to make the origional geometry invisible.

voila.

a nice explosion with chunks.



why 6 spray particles? why no just a single cloud one?
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Offline CougEr

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
ermmm...
looks around,
There is a copy of that Illusion proggy floating about. Easy to make explosion with that particle ani proggy.
 It saves alpha channels as well so easy to import as a background or foreground.


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Offline wEvil

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
6 Spray systems will give you more control than the cloud system, which sucks  

If you're after real volumic explosions, look at afterburn of pyrocluster but be prepared to spend alot of time away from your computer because they are very slow.

Almost all volumic renders are slow  

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have you ANY idea of how much trouble you're in?
assault on a police officer.
Theft of police property.
Illegal possesion of a firearm.
FIVE counts of attempted murder.
That comes to...

twenty-nine dollars and 14 cents.
cash, cheque or credit card?

 

Offline Vertigo1

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
 
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Originally posted by Kazan:
man this shizat sounds easy in max

Ohh it is.    Even in old versions like R2.5.



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Offline Setekh

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
 
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Originally posted by wEvil:
Almost all volumic renders are slow  

Yeah, volumetrics can be nasty   But damn they look good if you do them right.  
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Offline Shrike

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
Yeh.... shudder at raytraced pictures with lots of volumetrics.
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Offline Nico

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
actually, i think volumetric lights are set to ray tracing by default, you have no choice, that's why it's that slow (put a grid sphere around one, it looks sweet  
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Offline wEvil

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Anyone have explosion plugins for MAX 3.1?
They are set to whatever shadow algorythm the light uses.

Shadow maps work, but they're not much faster since by definition a volume effect is a voxel/raytrace entity.  

Shadow maps are ugly.
Shadow maps give you cancer.
Shadow maps make your teeth fall out.


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have you ANY idea of how much trouble you're in?
assault on a police officer.
Theft of police property.
Illegal possesion of a firearm.
FIVE counts of attempted murder.
That comes to...

twenty-nine dollars and 14 cents.
cash, cheque or credit card?