Explosion/Smoke/Dust

Ace-Angel

Hey to all,

I was wondering how would someone go about setting up an explosion with Smoke and Dust in Max? Is there a simple way?

Also, how would one go about achieving said example in a different case:
http://www.cartoonsolutions.com/images/smoke/explo_final.jpg

percydaman

Doing good looking smoke and dust is rarely simple. Thats the problem. You can get reasonable results using pflow and either use opacity mapped particles or pipe the particles into fumefx. But you would need to be pretty good at both packages to get something that looked good.

.morph3us

depending if its for an animation or not you might want to look into this here aswell:
http://stephenjameson.com/tutorials/faking-volumetric-effects/

its a little... non mainstream :P