Wednesday, February 3, 2010

My WIWTD Project

To make realistic looking fire:
From Geometry > Particle Systems > Super Spray

use the super spray to make a super spray emitter

Next, From Viewport Display, choose Mesh. From Particle Quantity choose Use Total and enter 470. Under Particle Motion enter 3 for the Speed. Under Particle Timing enter -30 for Emit Start, 200 for Emit Stop, and 200 for Display Until. Under Particle Size enter 20

Still in Particle Size, enter 0 for Grow For, and enter 25 for Fade.
Under Particle Type > Standard Particles, choose Facing.
Choose 9 for spinners

Make sure the Particle Emitter is selected, and then press the Assign Material to Selection button. Under Shader Basic Parameters choose Face Map – every particle should have its own unique map. Under Blinn Basic Parameters, press the blank slot beside Opacity, so as to choose a map for the basic opacity material for the emitter

This is our basic shape for the fire. The smoke map gives the advantage of being applied as one continuous image on the particles, as if the particles were a single plane, and at the same time you have the option of Face Map toggled on for the use of other maps! Still, the edges of the particles are harsh and need to be smoothed

The mask map we will apply will omit the harsh edges of every particle; the black colour that the mask map will draw around a single particle will be regarded by Max as zero opacity, and thus we will have a smoothed particle with the map shown only on the white part of the mask

In the Gradient map panel, under Gradient Parameters > Gradient Type, choose Radial. Click on the Color 2 slot and change to full white; click on the Color 3 slot and change to Red 128, Green 128, Blue 128, Hue 0, Sat 0, Value 128

Now in the Gradient panel, under Gradient Parameters, change Color 1 to full black, Color 2 to full black, and in Color 3 enter Red 255, Green 231, Blue 80, Hue 37, Sat 175, Value 255. In Color 2 Position, enter 1

Now in the Gradient panel, under Gradient Parameters, change Color 1 to full black, Color 2 to full black, and in Color 3 enter Red 255, Green 231, Blue 80, Hue 37, Sat 175, Value 255. In Color 2 Position, enter 1

This negative value will make our fire glow!!!

BAM! FIRE!