3ds max particle question

MikeG

Hi all,

I am not terribly experienced in the world of particles in 3ds max but I have to create a quick effect for a short pre rendered intro for a client.

The idea is for a statue to slowly rise out of sand with the problem being I don't exactly know which is the best way to go about having it so the sand reacts to the model of the statue in a realistic way.

This isnt a very high end thing so something fairly basic would do - there must be a simple way of doing it using Space warps and forces etc.

Would appreciate any help on this.

cheers
M

musashidan

Ideally you would use any of these plugins: PhoenixFD/FumeFX/TP/Krakatoa and post compositing of real-world matted footage for this effect but, you can get it done using ParticleFlow/Mparticles. It's a few years since I've done any particle work so you'd have to research the basics/search for tuts. Particle flow is pretty easy to get the hang of and can give decent results for simple sims like this. The polish is in the post work.

The quickest way would be to do it in After Effects using its particle system and stock alpha-matte footage of smoke or similar.