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3D Studio Max
i am new here and i am glad i found that website
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16 Dec 2005
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16 Dec 2005well then let me be the first one to welcome you here
btw i love the animation the only comment i have is that you could have done more with the hat with some nice squash and stretch. as for:
-walkcycles
-rigging (bonnes or boxes, whats the best?)
-fire
-explosions
-lip sink
that pretty much encompasses it all lol. i sugest you read over some of thse things in our tutorial section and search the forums for the rest it might be small but im sure we have atleast one or 2 threads on each of these subjects ...well except the explosions . in 3d explosions are done in one of 2 ways ...you can do it with particles (cam knows a lot about that) or if its a small scene not much happening and your not turning the camera around much you can use an animation on a plane ..tyson knows this awesome site that has videos of explosions. -
16 Dec 2005dude, thx a lot, i felt lownly for a sek (kidding) thx for the idea for the video, i'll work on it a soon as i am on my own pc again!
for the help, don't bother just now... i'll ask for tus or advices as a go along... does anybody the link Franklyn is talking about? and Cam, do you use afterburn or just standard particles in general?
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16 Dec 2005Welcome to the forums. I think your best bet is, as you say, to ask advice as you go along. There is so much to learn and if you are at the beginning it can seem overwhelming - like there is a very big mountain to climb!
I've now been doing 3D seriously for about 2 years now - the mountain is still there but it's fun to climb!
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16 Dec 2005thx for the replie, i dunno about your mountain but mine is like.... That big ! i have been playing around (< i just know the very basic stuff now) with max for tree years, i just started seriously less that a month ago.
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06 Apr 2006i know this is an older thread, but thought i'd throw this out there. i too have been very interested in explosions, especially realistic ones. i don't have afterburn, which looks sweet! maybe now that autodesk owns maya, they'll configure us up something like maya fluids!
you've probably seen this tutorial.
http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.php?op ... le&sid=658
it's pretty cool, but when i was doing it a while back, something about it made me think it wasn't for animation, it was only for stills. (can't remember what made me think that, but it's in there somewhere...)
so i tweaked it a bit for animation, and also had to change how the particles fade out, cuz what he demonstrates looks kinda bad.
but i ended up getting a really cool little animation test out of it, and with a little sound fx, really made a BANG! (bad pun, i know... i'm a bad person
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the coolest thing about this tutorial was linking omni lights to the flying debris, and how it illuminates the particles. -
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