
:: Post Date: 2007-11-15 16:23:23 [Post Comment] [Post Articles]
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3ds max Cloud Tutorial: Faking Ray-Marching using Gradients and Distance-Based LightingApplication Used: Autodesk 3ds maxAuthor: Jonas UssingAuthor Website:http://www.duck.dk/IntroductionIn this tutorial you will learn to create a fly-through of a realistic cloud tunnel that renders relatively fast, using 3D Studio Max with no plugins or 3rd party renderer. ![]() Links to tutorial file and demo movie:Click here to download 3dsmax cloud tutorial (PDF - 10MB) Click here to download the demo movie (Quicktime - 2MB) |
| b a great help if u could make a video tutorial |
| Finally a cloud tutorial that works. Fantastic. |
| awesome tutorial...keep it up..guys..ur the best..thnx a lot..! |
| @Traiano: Collapse means right-click the top item in the modifier stack and click "collapse to". And no, you don't have to enter the noise settings again, just re-activate the map, after you turned it off in step 3.12 |
| 3.1 its not clear.. wot does colapse mean? i did it and my max gives me error 3.13 Wot about the Noise settings we did before in 5.5? do i have to setup the noise like we did there again? |
| @Ben: no sorry, you have to do the hard work yourself. :) Post screenshots of your problems somewhere (like CGTalk), and I'll try to help you out of it. |
| Any .max files available for download, everytime i try this tutorial it does not work, and i really need some good clouds for a project... |
| Collapsing the tunnel: In step 3.1, RIGHT-click on the top modifier on the tunnel ("Push"), and choose "Collapse to". Then you collapse the modifier stack. Thanks for trying out the tut! |
| what dose he mean " colapse the tunell?": ive been trying to figure this out for days |
| jh |
| Dude love the tutorial! I got tired of trying to use volumetric fog and an atmospheric gizmo and didn't turn out right. Huge props bro!! |
| props for the tut ... no plugin or other stuff ... |
| Excellent tutorial and very uselful too. Thank you! |
| You're welcome, guys. Thanks for the support. |
| Thanks a lot, really...this tut is probably one of it´s kind on the net...I suspect that also other atmospherics can be "faked"(if we consider plugs like Afterburn as somekind of original/traditional way)..f.ex. volcano smoke... Once more..really thanks!!! |
| Finaly a great cloud tutorial that doesn't need any external plugins.... Thanks a million -B |