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2012-03-17T09:54:00.000-07:00

Hello,
Welcome to my Tutorial blog,

Here i'll be uploading 3d tutorials for students specially for 3D dynamics / FX , lighting and rendering ..
Softwares will be covered are mainly

3Ds max,
Luxology Modo, and
Blender 3D.

Enjoy the tutorials and post your comments and demands.

Tutorials are categorized according to Softwares, Hope I am putting a clear data through video OR Text.

Newest Tutorials :
1. Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball

2. Blender 3D - Making Nuts And Bolts Scene

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3. 3ds Max : Making Simple Rain Effect using particle flow.

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4. Modo - Introduction to Fur in Modo and adding density map.

So enjoy my tutorials, m still making it so may take time to deliver all the data for now,

You can always mail me at : nicks1008@gmail.com

Create Growing IVY Effect in Blender 3D

2011-03-01T06:03:00.000-08:00

Create Growing IVY Effect in Blender 3D

Tutorial Effect Preview

Tutorial :

Best viewed at 720p or 480p

Shading Node tree at : http://3dvideotutorials.blogspot.com/2010/01/making-of-ivygen-growing-animation.html

Create Text Filling Effect in Blender 3D

2010-01-13T10:09:00.000-08:00

Create Text Fill Effect in Blender

Description : Here I Tried to create a most famous effect of realflow with blender fluids. Somehow it was easy to setup and took fairly same time to bake the simulation. on the other hand, Fluid collision with text object is little messy, so had to do some cheats to fill the liquid into text. But overall, Blender fluid is really impressive for such kind of effects. :)

Part 1 :

PART 2

Form Effect using Modifiers in 3ds max

2009-12-25T12:46:00.000-08:00

Tutorial : Create Form and Disappear Effects Using Modifiers in 3ds Max

Type : Effects
Difficulty Level : Beginner

Video Preview

Hello Everyone,

In this tutorial we will be looking at how to create stunning effects using powerful modifiers inside 3ds max.

First we will look forward to Forming effect :

Step 1 :
take any geometry and make sure it contains enough segments. For this tutorial I am using a model from 3dmodelfree. Its triangulated and dense enough for creating the effects.

Step 2 :

Here we will discuss about the Volume Select (Vol. Select) Modifier.

Vol. Select modifier is a modifier which can keep a track of selections on continues basis. It can update the selections based on Volume (bounding box) Such as Box, Sphere, cylinder or any kind of custom shape. Also, It can update the selection based on Material ID and Texture Map. Where as the selection type can be Either Vertex,Face or an Object based.

Select the geometry and Apply Vol. Select Modifier from modifier stack.

Step 3 :

Select Selection level to Vertex and Surface as a Texture Map.

step 4 :

Since we chose the Texture Map to determine the selection , We will need to make a Black - White texture map which will update our selection based on color value.
i.e White = Selection and Black = Non selection

Hit''M' on Keyboard to open material editor.
Click on Grey Box of the Diffuse channel, and choose a Noise Texture.

Step 5

Choose Noise type as Fractal for now and keep the Low value to 0.1 and High value to between 0.1 to 0.3

Step 6 :

Turn on the Auto Key and Animate the High Value from 0.1 to 1 within 100 frames.

Step 7 :

Now Drag the Noise map from the material slot to Vol.Selects Texture Map slot.

Step 8 :

Now Scrub the time Line and you will see the frame by frame updated vertex selections.

Step 9 :
keep the selection active and Go to Modifier List and choose "Delete Mesh" modifier.
It will look only for selected vertex and apply delete modifier to it.

Step 10 :

Because of delete mesh modifier we will get cool effect of forming Geometry over the time range of 100 Frames.

Play with Scale and Noise type to get more patterns and variations

Similarly you can use Gradient Ramp,Checker Map,Cellular map.. etc to create this effect.

Step 11

Finally
To make it reverse, That is to Disappear the geometry over time, Just Flip the High Value from 1 to 0.1. (while changing the values, keep the Auto Key ON)

Thats it folks..

In next tutorial, I will come up with more effects based on modifiers as shown in the video . :)

For feedback kindly comment below or mail me at nicks1008@gmail.com

- Nikhil D
nikart3d.in

Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball 01

2009-10-20T10:52:00.000-07:00

Hello,

In this tutorial, we will be looking at

1. how to Setup Cloth Parameters for a squishy Ball

2. Texturing / Shading using Nodes Editor

3. Rendering the scene with Blenders new CYCLES path tracer render engine.

4. Tips for doing Multiple Objects collision

For this you will need :

Blender 2.59 Cycles Build (get from http://graphicall.org/?keywords=cycles)

Here in this tutorial I used Blender Cycles + CUDA 2.5.3 Build

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BASIC SCENE SETUP

1. Press Shift + A and make a box

2. Add subdivide modifier to it and keep the view / render ratio to 3 each.

3. Hit Apply button on the modifier to convert current shape as a base mesh which will allow us to tweak the shape in EDIT MODE.

4. GO into Edit mode by pressing TAB key and select face Selection mode, And select an alternate faces

5. Hit ‘E’ on your keyboard to activate the extrude operation and then right click to place extruded faces on the same place. Now Hit “S” to scale those in upto certain level. Refer the image.

6. Now come back to object mode. Apply cloth form Physics Tab to our box (squishy ball).

7. Now, make a floor.

Shift + A -> Box / plane for our ball to collide with.

8. Add collision from the physics tab to our Ground. Keep the settings for default for now.

Setting Cloth Parameters.....

Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball 02

2009-10-19T09:23:00.000-07:00

SETTING CLOTH PARAMETERS

9. Now, Press Play with default setting and you will get something like this.

Which is not really what we want. The cloth is intersecting with itself and has no rigidity.

10. since we have added cloth, the cloth modifier is appearing on modifiers tab, now we can apply another subsurface modifier to give smooth look to our squishy ball. If its still looking flat, hit space bar and type shade smooth and apply to it.

Now the reason for applying subsurface modifier after cloth is to give cloth less segments / geo count to simulate, which will save a lot of time while baking the simulation. Since the modifier is a below the cloth which means its acting after the cloth simulation and giving nice smooth look without increasing sim time.

11. Its better to cache your simulations rather than just hitting play button. Because when you press play, you can not scrub back and forth any time since blender not keeping it in memory. So in Cloth Cache rollout you will find BAKE button, give any name for a cache and hit hit BAKE to bake the simulation. And Use FREE BAKE to erase the simulation

After Baking "FREE BAKE" button will appear on the same space.

12. Now Lets tweak the Cloth collision parameters.

First thing is to activate “Self Collision” button with decent number of quality value. (More the quality amount more the simulation time)

Keep the distance high enough.

Change the repel value, which will allow the ball to jump / bounce after collision. Generally keep it between 2.5 to 3.0

(refer the settings from image)

13. now Bake the simulation and you will get something like this, which is not giving any geometry intersections. Cool J

But still we are lacking for its shape and bouncy behavior.

14. In Cloth Rollout, you will find, Material Parameters. Lets tweak those now,

MASS :

Higher the mass, more it will squeeze after collision, so generally keep it around 1.0 to 2.0

STRUCTURAL :

This value will determine how much the stiff object can be. But if you go to Higher value, it slows the movement. Like a drag force acting on it.

So, keep that in mind and put the value around 750 to 1200.

BENDING :

This value is more important here, higher you goes, more it will try to retain its shape even after distortion due to ground collision. So keep the value around 4500 to 6500.

(depends on scale and mass factor)

Refer the setting from image

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Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball 03

2009-10-18T09:37:00.000-07:00

15. Bake now and you will get something like this.

Little bit more jiggle than it should ?

16. there is a paramerter called spring which allows us to control jiggle effect on an object. Set it to higher number so it will be more settle and less jiggley.

Like this

17. If its falling too slow increase the Gravity amount to 5 from Cloth field weight rollout.

16. We are done with the cloth setup now, you will probably to get this effect now,

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Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball 04

2009-10-17T10:09:00.000-07:00

LIGHTING / TEXTURING

17. Lets add two planes to emit the light from. Position them according to the objects and camera.

make Space for NODE EDITOR window,

18. Select Floor box, and in Material Tab,

Click on NEW

19. In node editor,

Shift + A => Textures => Image Texture

Connect color output of image node to the color output of the diffuse colors input.

20. Now, in Materials tab, you will find an image rollout, where you can select any image for your flooring.

Click on OPEN button and browse for any image for flooring.

21. In order to scale, position and rotate the image you will need Mapping node.

Shift A -> Vector -> Mapping

Now press

Shift A -> input -> Texture Co-ordinate

Now,

Connect output of mapping node to the input of image texture node.

Connect object input to the output of mapping (vector)

Tweak the translation, rotation and scale to fit your image on to the floor.

Now to make it reflective,

Add another node, Glossy BSDF and Mix Shader from

Shift + A -> Shader

Break the connection between Diffuse BSDF to Surface.

Connect Diffuse BSDF and Glossy BSDF into MIX Shader and connect Mix Shaders output to Surface.

Lower the color value of glossy BSDF and add some roughness to give blurred refection look.

Refer the image

23. well, now we are done with floor texturing, lets ignite the lights.

Select the plane which we created to light up the scene,

Go to materials tab , add new material,

And delete the diffuse node which comes by default, and instead of that go to

Shift + A -> Shader -> Emission

Change the emission color if you want to. And keep the strength to 15 for now,

Do the same with other light plane with little less emission strength.

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Simulating & Rendering Squishy Ball 05

2009-10-16T10:49:00.000-07:00

RENDERING

24. make a space for another 3d view and change the display type to “RENDERED”

Let it clean up and you will have something like this.

25. Lets add environment to the scene. Go to Environment tab in the property editor,

And if there is already an environment, then delete it. and then,

Click on NEW,

A new rollout will come up,

In that after the color header, click on grey box and select the alternative “image texture” or “Environment Texture”.

Select any .HDR image, and now you will have something like this, if scene becomes dark, increase the multiplier. Like in my case it is kept on 6. Also increase the light emission strength to control overall feel.

26. We are one step closer now, time to color out the squishy ball.

We will follow the same procedure to add material for this also,

Delete the default diffuse node,

Have a GLASS BSDF (for transparency) and GLOSSY BSDF (for reflection) and Add them into ADD SHADER and connect it to the surface input.

If the reflection is too much, then control it with the color value of Glossy BSDF, white is full reflective where Black is non reflective.

Adjust the roughness value to give it blurred look.

Colorize the glass BSDF to give desired color to your squishy ball. IOR keep it to default & Give some roughness.

Refer the settings and look from image

27. so you are likely to get something like this. Congrats J

28. Time to render Animation

Final things to change is in RENDER tab,

i) Resolution

ii) Integrator – Keep the passes to maximum no so it will get more time to cleanup..

(Note: once you are rendering, make sure that you have planned a short holiday trip :D )

Additionally, If you want multiple squishy balls hitting each other, like this

Keep these things in mind that,

• In order to bake the simulation, you should use “BAKE ALL DYNAMICS ” button.

• Even though all balls are applied with cloth modifier/physics, it doesn’t mean that they will intersect with each other, you will need to add separate collision modifier / physics to it. (like we added to the floor)

• keep the Simulation quality decent enough, it will take longer to calculate but ultimately it will give more settle movements. (Sometimes it may decides to go crazy and act abnormal :P ).

• And finally, have fun with bouncy balls on the floor.

Play more and get some awesome results…

DO let me know about this tutorial, post the comment Below... :) Send your response or requests to nicks1008@gmail.com.

Thanks and regards,
Nikhil Dhoka

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FEATURED TUTORIAL :

Rendering Nuts & Bolts with Cycles

Rendering Nuts & Bolts

2009-10-09T10:13:00.000-07:00

Rendering Nuts and Bolts in Blender 2.59 with Cycles.

Hello,

In this tutorial, we will be looking at

1. how to assign materials using Node Editor

2. Adding light shader to Objects

3. Render the scene with Blenders new CYCLES path tracer render engine.

4. Adding Depth of Field

For this you will need :

Blender 2.59 Cycles Build (get from http://graphicall.org/?keywords=cycles)

NOTE : Some builds may not include some feature with this build (r39671 32 Bit) while some additional options may appear in newer builds.

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BASIC SETUP

1. First of all, Go to File -> User Preferences - > Add-ons Tab

In Add-ons tab select MESH and Check the “Add Mesh- Bolt Factory” addon.

You may click on Save as default if you want to keep this addon active all the time.

2. Now, Press “Shift + A” in 3d View -> Mesh -> Bolt

(you may change the bolt type in property editor by press T on keyboard)

3. Rotate it 180 degrees in X axis.

4. Similarly add plane into the scene for floor. Shift A > Mesh > Plane

Scale with S key as per your scene.

5. To make Nuts, press Shift A -> mesh -> Bolt

Create it and in property sidebar (left hand side) (press T to call) change the type to Nut.

(Note : you can only change the type before applying any transformation / action to object)

6. make few of same and place it as per your choice.

7. Select Nuts and bolts from the scenes and add SubDivision Surface Modifier to it.

8. Press “0” Zero on numpad to go in camera view and adjust the view by pressing Shift + F (camera Fly mode)

Assigning Materials : Continued on Page 2 ->

3D Printing with Blender - Infographics

2009-10-09T02:03:00.000-07:00

Checkout Original Post here : https://www.udemy.com/learn-blender-modeling-and-texturing/#infographic

Shared from Udemy

Rendering Nuts and Bolts 2

2009-10-08T10:37:00.000-07:00

ASSIGNING MATERIAL

9. Split the viewport and make space for node editor.

10. First select any of the nut or bolt and in Material Tab (Property editor) press NEW

11. By default you will get Diffuse BSDF node connected to material output.

In order to make it shiny and reflective we will append another node called “Glossy BSDF”

Shift A (in node editor window) -> Closure -> Glossy BSDF.
Or with New CYCLES Build you will have Shift + A -> Shader -> Glossy BSDF
Also, IN latest build, you wont see a Fresnal value.. it can be controlled through Color. Like White = 1 and black = 0

12. in order to blend both of these we will add another node called Mix Closure.

Now connect Diffuse node and glossy node to mix closure and connect this to material output.

(refer image)

13. leave the settings for as default for now. And do the same for all nuts and bolts.

(Diffuse value can be used for adjusting custom colors to the object.if you want to)

you can copy the material by pressing DownArrow sign near material box. -> Copy material

select another nut or bolt -> ADD new material -> press the same downArrow -> Paste material

14. now select plane and add NEW material to it. in Node editor, Append new node called “Image texture”

Shift A -> texture > image texture

Connect output of this node to the input of Diffuse BSDF.

15. Select plane and in property rollout (right hand side) under Material Tab – find the “image” button and click to add any image for your Ground.

16. In order to scale, position and rotate the image you will need Mapping node.

Shift A -> Vector -> Mapping

Connect output of mapping node to the input of image texture node.

Now press

Shift A -> input -> Texture Co-ordinate

Connect object input to the output of mapping (vector)

Tweak the translation, rotation and scale to fit your image on to the plane.

. (Or you may adjust that after lighting is done to see directly into the preview render)

<--BASIC SETUP LIGHTING SETUP : Continued on Page 3

Rendering Nuts and Bolts 3

2009-10-07T11:21:00.000-07:00

LIGHTING SETUP

17. We will be using object lights to light up the scene.

First make 2 plane for our light source.

18. Go to material tab – Add new material to plane

Under Surface RollOut - Click on Diffuse BSDF node and change it to Emission

19. Make changes to colors.. for first light slightly yellow tone and for other light make slight blue.

Or whatever you feels good.

Keep the intensity to “50” for now.

RENDERING

20. In any of the 3D view window, Switch the Display shade option to “Rendered”

21. Let it calculate and display the current render.. It’s a path tracer so it will keep cleaning the image.

Spend some time and let ti clean up you will get something like this.

22. Diffuse color is making our nuts and bolts whitish. We will black out the diffuse color of Nuts and Bolts so it will reflect the overall environment and gives a feel of metal / steel.

Select individual item and in Material Tab change the diffuse color to BLACK.

Do the same for rest of nuts and bolts.

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Rendering Nuts and Bolts 4

2009-10-06T11:37:00.000-07:00

23. Now to add environment, we will add .HDR image to light up the scene and our objects will have something to reflect.
In Property editor select WORLD tab (third from left).
Click on ADD
In Color rollout click on Little square button having dot in the middle
And select Image TEXTURE / Environment Texture.
Browse for any .HDR image.

24. Let it clean up for couple of minutes. Now you will get something like this. More shiny and reflective nuts & Bolts.

25. hey, we are almost done. Its time to finalize the look.

Go to Render tab, (first in property editor), scroll down until you find FILM rollout.
Play with Exposure value depends on the mood of image, also, try different camera Film response.
For my case I used F-250 Film.

(Note : Sadly the Latest Build doesnt come with this feature. This may get added lateron.)

26. To add depth of field, select camera first, in Object data tab, adjust the DISTANCE as per your camera distance to the object ,
And to see where the focus is, change the Lens radius value a bit.. (sensitive parameter). I used Lens Radius to 0.09.

(Note : Latest Build have different parameters - For Lens Radius tweak Aperture value. Blades and rotation can be used to stylize bokeh effect)

27. Final Step.. phewww !!
Time to render
Final things to change is in RENDER tab,
i) Resolution
ii) Integrator – Keep the passes to maximum number so it will get more time to cleanup ..

And DONE !!
Play more and get some amazing renders …

DO let me know about this tutorial, post the comment Below... :) Send your response or requests to nicks1008@gmail.com.

Thanks and regards,
Nikhil Dhoka
Download Finished .Blend + Files - Click here

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Introduction to Particle info Node in Blender

2009-09-14T12:13:00.000-07:00

Tutorial :

Introduction to Particle info Node in Blender

In this tutorial, we will be looking at how to work with Particle info node in blender 2.63.17+

More info on Particle Node :

http://code.blender.org/index.php/2012/05/particle-info-node/

Part 1

Direct Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgnWHsmih3c

Part 2

Direct Link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZevdD5t7d8

2009-05-25T13:09:00.000-07:00

Case Study :

Skin Shader with different lighting setups:
Model & Texture : http://www.ir-ltd.net/ ( Lee Perry-Smith SCAN)
Contribution : Shader, Additional texture maps, Lighting and Rendering
Software : Modo

01 : By using Diffuse Map

Click images to Enlarge

02 : Using Multiple Skin Levels Textures

Textures Overlayed with Diffuse,Epidermal and Subdermal maps.

More test results coming soon....

Making of : IvyGen Growing Animation

2009-01-02T00:34:00.000-08:00

Making of : IvyGen Growing Animation

Software : Blender 2.61 + After effects

Break Down

Texturing / Shading

Leaves

Here is the simple Material node tree for the leaves

Branch

Took me a while to figure out how gradient works in blender (:D) but finally after playing with "Vector" node made it through. :)

Cups

In order to give falloff effect on cups, I used Layer weight Node, in which the facing factor was responsible for creating darker shade over the edges of white cups.

Down here is the node tree for black cups, where for the white cups there is only one change, that is the interchange of positions of diffuse node of black color and grey color into the mix shader.

Render settings

Did not changed the overall default settings but just kept sample value bit lower to get faster time results .. even though it was little grainy but that factor was taken care at post possessing with after effect using "remove noise".

I kept the rendering on GPU which was giving me an average time of 6 mins per frame on Nvidia GTS 450.

Hope you liked the work, and please feel free to comment. :)

Flowing water effect and material using particle flow in 3ds max p1

2008-10-05T10:17:00.000-07:00

Rendering Flowing water effect using particle flow in 3ds max

Type : Particle FX
Level : Beginners/ intermediate

Hello, In this in-depth tutorial, we will be looking at how to create moving water effect using particle flow and rendering with default scanline renderer.

1. Lets Open 3ds max.

2. In the menu bar, select Graph Editor and choose Particle View. Or you can hit 6 key to open particle view window.

3. you will get a window like this called Particle view window. This is a area where we will build our particle flow tree from scratch.

4. In particle view, Go to Display option and uncheck Depot. which will provide us more space to work with.

5. Right Click in the Empty Space of the window and and choose

NEW -> Particle System > Empty Flow

6. "PF Source" node is going to control all the particles that we are going to make. Where we will connect the Birth node which will determine the number of particles and start and end frame of the simulation.

Again click on empty space of the particle view (pView) and

NEW - > Birth Event - > Birth

& Connect the PF Source nodes output to the Events input by simply clicking & draging the mouse from the icons.

7. Now we need a position from where particle will fall down. because if we look at the viewport now, we will see nothing.
So, Now right click in space between Birth Node and Display node and choose

APPEND - > Operator - > Position Icon

8. Now you will see, you have an Icon in the viewport.

9. You can modify this icon with Move,Rotate and scale tool. Place it above the grid facing downward. once you done that, scroll the timeline, you will see particle getting born over the icon.

10. The reason for particles to stuck on the icon is because we do not have any external force acting on it which will make them move. In order to do that, Right click on the event (or on any node of the event) and choose

APPEND - > Operator - > Speed

11. Select the Speed node and set the Speed amt to 100. and after playing the timeline you will have moving particles.

12. Select the Birth Node, and tweak the particle amount and frame range.

Make end frame to 200.

select the Rate and make it 60

13. Select the PF source node and right click -> rename -> type any name .. (optional)

In the property rollout find Quantity Multiplier and make the viewport % to 100 to see actual amount of particles in the viewport.

14. In order to increase the particle count, we will need to append another Test node called "SPAWN" which will multiply our particle count on the go.

Append - > "Test" - > Spawn.

15. Select the spawn node and make changes in the settings.

OffSpring* = 4 ( No. of the new particles for 1 old particle)
Inherited = 68.0

16. In the 3ds max viewport, In command panel, Selet Space warps, and under Forces select Gravity. And draw it on viewport.

In pView window, Append - > Operator -> Force

and in force node select the gravity we have just made.

Cool FX Stuff with 3ds Max :

Flowing water effect using pflow in 3ds max p2

2008-10-04T10:17:00.000-07:00

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17. To make water trails we will need to spawn more particles. But in order to keep things organized, we will add AGE TEST which will allow us to move into new event.

Append - > Test - > Age test

18. Make some quick changes in settings to get switch into new event.

19. Now, This is a time to create new event, Rt Click on empty space and Test Event - > Spawn

This time change the setting to "By travel distance" which will create a particle trail from original particle (parent particle) based on its step size and speed.

Lower step size = higher particle count per frame (might slows down your workflow)

lower inheritance value will stop particle to spread out the trail.

20. And you will have particle trails something like this..

21. Particle keeps on adding into your scene since its not getting deleted over time. which makes things horrible to work with. Lets create new delete event "New - > Operator Event - > Delete"

Connect that into into spawn node we just created.. and change the delete node setting as per the image.

22. now you will get something like this.

23. Lets make the flow collide with ground or something.. in order to do that, in command panel, in Space warp, choose Deflectors from drop down menu, and draw Deflector in the viewport.

24. once you draw the deflector, its time to make some adjustments to it.. such as bounce, friction etc.

25. Now append the Collision node in Event 06 (where we created the spawn for making trails),
and add the deflector into it. suddenly you will see that the particles are hitting the deflector and bouncing off.

26. As you can see the after getting bounce from the deflector, particles are not getting affected by the force (gravity). so append the force node into the collision event and add gravity into it. now the particles are very much settled.. you may go to fore node property and decrease the influence value
to 400 - 600%.. or increase the bounce of the deflector.

27. Lets add another spawn to create additional particles on hitting. create a new test event - > spawn and connect it to the collision node.

Select the spawn node and increase the offspring value to 35 or more. and some other settings are as follows.

28. Add delete in a new event and connect to the spawn so the splash particles will have limited life.

Rendering and shading continued on next page.

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Cool FXwith 3ds Max

Flowing water effect using pflow in 3ds max p3

2008-10-03T10:17:00.000-07:00

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Now, we will proceed to the shading part.

29. Hit M on keyboard to open material editor.
check on the Self illumination checkbox and then click on the square box infront of self illumination which will open the texture window, from that choose FALLOFF.
Do the same for Opacity.

30. In falloff change the black color to gray for self illumination and opacity.

31. In order to call this material into particle flow, we will need to go into pView again, and in the top node we will have to append a node called "material static"

Append - > Operator - > Material Static

32. And drag drop the material into node property.

33. We are done with the material part. Lets move on to Rendering. If you press F9 or Shift + Q.
you will see nothing.
Because our particles doesnt have any kind of geometry that render can read.
in order to give geometry we will append the Shape node into the top event.

Append - > Operator - > Shape

and choose a shape type to sphere 20 sides.

34. Similarly Add scale operator just below it. It will allow us to tweak particle scale from individual axis. I kept it to 15 on X,Y and Z axis.. you may have random numbers for each axis as per scene requirement.

Final node tree.

35. Now choose a good view of the particles in your perspective viewport and hit "Ctrl + C" to create camera from current scene.

36. now hit render (F9 or Shift + Q) to see what we get..

Such a bad render.. i dont think you have seen such a bad render yet... ;)
but wait.. we can fix it with motion blur.. 8)

37. Select your camera and in modifier panel, you will find bunch of properties. In that go to Multi pass effect. Check on that box and choose Motion blur from drop down list.

Total no of passes : 24 (more the passes smoother the result.. longer the render time)

Duration : play with this parameter until you satisfy with the look. i kept it to 100 which gave a really stretchy and blurry look to my particles which i wanted.

38. And now hit the render. and see the change..

pretty cool huh.. :)

Similarly play more with particle count, speed, deflectors, spawns and create some out of box looking effects.

Thanks for reading this tutorial and if you any doubt please mention that in the comment box below or mail me at nicks1008@gmail.com

Regards,
Nikhil Dhoka

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Making of Fiat 500

2008-01-28T11:23:00.000-08:00

Breakdowns :

Fiat 500

Hello,
Here are the breakdowns of the image i have created with one of my favorite software Modo.

Process :

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Diffuse

Preview

Lighitng /Reflection / specular / refraction / Fur

Final With Color Corrections

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Nikhil Dhoka

http://nikart3d.tk/

Rendering Rain Particles in 3ds Max

2008-01-26T10:10:00.000-08:00

Part 2 - Rendering

PLAY (swich to 480p for Higher quality)

Watch Part 1

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Thank you for watching.

Nikhil Dhoka

Introduction to Fur in Modo

2007-12-19T11:48:00.000-08:00

Quick Introduction to Fur Material in Modo & adding density map.

Video (High Quality)

Video (Low Quality)

Particle Effect : Rain

2007-12-17T10:36:00.000-08:00

Part 1 : Creating Basic Rain setup and adding Dripping effect in

Particle flow - 3ds max

PLAY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTSJyqHrWIo)

Watch Part 2

(Rendering)