'Combustion' environmental effect in 3DS Max?

Andreas · Jun 2011

I found a nice tutorial online, thought I'd try it, but it requires a 'combustion' environmental effect, and I can only find fire effect, fog, volume fog and volume light in the rollout. I tried Max 8 and 2011, neither seem to have it.

What gives?

Ark · Jun 2011

Never heard of this. I think theres a plugin called that or maybe it's referring to the old compositing package called Combustion?

Maybe you could explain a little what the effect is supposed to do?

Andreas · Jun 2011

Yeah I know what you mean, I have never come across this environmental effect.

I am basically trying this tutorial: http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/explore2/

You'll be able to see what I'm looking for from the pics hopefully.

r_fletch_r · Jun 2011

pretty sure that fire effect = combustion effect. paramaters seem to be the same. results look the same too.

TBH though mate why are you messing with 10 year old shite like this. the result is shockingly bad.

If your just making an element why not take a look at blenders smoke/fire system.
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or if your feeling wealthy theres afterburn and fume.

Andreas · Jun 2011

Came across it, seemed like something that would work well for an in-game billboard single plane particle animation, planned to change up the colours to make it look like an electric spark. Was supposed to be a half hour distraction initially

I also thought that the settings for 'fire' looked very similar, but I have a feeling that the effect created there drifts up instead of out, like a real flame. I think I've used it before...

Yeah, I've played a good bit with Blenders fluid stuff, tis awesome, and watched a lot of documentation for fume, also great, this just seemed like a nice little touch I could add to an almost dead mechanical enemy in-game

'Combustion' environmental effect in 3DS Max?

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