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3D Studio Max
Looping fire
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20 Jul 2005is there an accurate way to loop particle systems in 3ds max? it sounds odd but i need to make a 2-4 second animation that loops, of fire obviously. i'm pretty sure that i could fake it by overlapping animations in premiere and changing opacities but that gets technical and annoying >.< wondering if there was any ofther way.
PS: aura is a great fire engine, but is not good for what i am doing, most unloopable thing ever,
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20 Jul 2005No...not that I'm aware of there isn't. Your best bet would be to probably render out a sequence about double the length that you need, take it into Adobe Premiere, cut it in half (ie...an "offset" cut) and "loop it" using a cross fade. Might be a little blurry, but if you tweak your settings enough in max you might be able to pump something out that would look good when looped.
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20 Jul 2005that was my alternative plan, thanks for the reply tyson. always appreciated
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25 Jul 2005here is a suggestions purely out of my imagination.
You could use pflow.
Create an invisible mesh copy of the frame at the initial birthing when you want the loop to start, and then use the copy as a move-to kind of target when you want the loop to end? perhapses? -
26 Jul 2005i've never used pflow before, i guess i should look at some tutorials
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