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| Afterburn 4.0 – Utilizing Explosion Daemon |
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| Still covering more basic subjects just to add some more introductory content. Here we go through one of many methods for creating explosions in 3D Studio Max. This one is designed to really show how to use the Explode Daemon in Afterburn 4 as well as create an explosion without any key frames or lights necessary, purely all based off the particle age. |
| Afterburn 4.0 – Triggering Canned FX |
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| Following on from the previous tutorial, we then take our explosion and link it up to another system. In this case, its killer teapots! (Yes I was too lazy to make any actual planes flying around). The concept is very similar to the airstrike CG Academy DVD I created some years ago, however updated for Afterburn 4.0. This is a demonstration of creating canned FX and then being able to hook them up to other effects to control the entire thing through some basic controls you set up, rather than manually having to do all of this by hand. |
| That’s it for now, there are a few announcements happening over the coming weeks, as well as a lot of advanced content coming. As I’ve previously mentioned I’m trying to put a bit of my spare time into producing some beginner to intermediate subjects for real flow, max, maya, scripting etc. for people who are wanting to get into FX and don’t know where to start. However I have a lot of more advanced content that will be coming soon. As always, if you have any cool ideas or requests, feel free to shoot me an email (go to the contact page) and I’ll keep them in mind!
Allan McKay San Francisco, USA |
Posted on November 15th, 2009
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5:19 am
Very nice tutorial.But when i’m import *.ma file, *.mov and add text tool movie is not matching. Text position equal a null.But text or nulls rockin’ , not fixed.Help for it.
5:28 am
Bueno en primer lugar quiero felicitarlo señor mc kay pues es usted un excelente profesional sobre todo en esto de las particulas que me estan fascinando, y en segundo lugar agradecerle por los tutoriales que para aquellos que no podemos pagar por entrenamiento en dvd esto es muy util.
Espero que pronto pueda realizar nuevos tutoriales sobre afterburn 4 ya que desde que salió no es lo mismo para mi como la version anterior.
Le dejo un gran saludo desde Tucuman argentina.
10:33 pm
Thanks guys, Arnaldo that’s good to know – I wasn’t sure if people find them annoying or useful. I will definitely keep that in mind
CG Tutorials, sorry can you be more specific? *.ma as in maya ascii or which file types are you referring to?
11:02 am
very well tut allan,thanks a lot man…………..;) we are waiting for another exiting tuts..
7:05 pm
Love your DVDs, love your website and love these new tutorials as well! With xmas around the corner hopefully I’ll finally be able to get fumefx: advanced
Would really be cool to see a decent nuclear explosion tutorial (with afterburn/fumefx) since I’m yet to find one, but that’s just a personal preference.
Great tutorial, thanks agai!
7:06 pm
thanks again*! (silly typo)
5:26 pm
Hey Allan,
Nice job on the website.
You mentioned you are using a different CMS.
I am investigating the pros and cons of the big 3 for my partner and wondered if you would tell me which you had moved to?
8:53 pm
Keep going Master Mckay!!!!!