Deconstructing the Elements with 3ds Max: Create Natural Fire, Earth, Air and Water Without Plug-ins

Draper P.

Get the most realistic effects from 3ds Max without having to spend more on plug-ins!Boost your effects skill-set with this 3ds Max workshop. Tutorial lessons give you hands-on experience in creating realistic fire, earth, air and water effects. Updated to demonstrate production techniques suitable for any version of 3ds Max, this new edition is co-published by Autodesk Media and Entertainment, and includes new tutorials on entering the Earth’s atmosphere, glaciers, lava eruptions and a Badlands landscape.

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Table of contents :
The Elements……Page 0
Introduction……Page 3
Fire……Page 7
Candle……Page 8
Match……Page 20
Gas hob……Page 34
Oil fire……Page 46
Flamethrower……Page 59
Tunnel explosion……Page 71
Fireworks……Page 81
Coals……Page 94
Solar Flare……Page 106
Water……Page 123
Lemonade……Page 124
Calm seas……Page 134
Stormy seas……Page 144
Underwater……Page 154
Moving surface water……Page 163
Rain……Page 174
Hailstones……Page 188
Snowflakes……Page 198
Lava lamp……Page 208
Glacier……Page 219
Earth……Page 234
Volcanic terrain……Page 235
Lava……Page 251
Grass and dirt……Page 263
Grasses……Page 273
Frozen wastelands……Page 288
Mountain……Page 298
Asteroid……Page 311
Air……Page 322
Cigarette smoke……Page 323
Tornado……Page 331
Eruption……Page 346
Pyroclastic flow……Page 358
Appendices……Page 371
The next step……Page 372
Plug-in solution……Page 374
Index……Page 375