This tutorial will show you one way to make steam or smoke using 3ds MAX. This is not a particle based method, you’ll just be manipulating a form and creating a material to produce the effect of a whisp ... more

In this tutorial I will create a sticky fluids effect using glu3d and later explain the same thing with pflow. This is not a step by step tutorial, little knowledge about the glu3d fluid system is necessary ... more

One feature that’s currently lacking with the straight "out of the box" particel systems in 3dsmax, is texture based particel emission. Plugins such as Thinking Particles and Matterwaves from Cebas cover ... more

Tutorial for creating dreamworks a-like clouds using UltraShock

Combustion is a volumetric plugin for 3dsmax, Essentially what it does is create firey explosions although it can be used for many gas like real world elements such as smoke, steam, clouds and so forth. ... more

Hi, in this tutorial I’ll show you how to create rain or water dripping effect in 3ds max using build in particle system Particle Flow. This tutorial require basic skills of using 3ds max and Particle ... more

Today, I will explain to you guys what is Z Depth. Because many of you will undoubtedly not be familiar with z-maps, their creation, or their use. The term z-map might be a little misleading to those ... more