AfterBurn is a production-proven volumetric effects plugin that has been used in cinematic productions such as Armageddon, Dracula 2000, HBO trailer, Mechwarrior3 cine trailer, various IMAX movies and games such as Warcraft3, Starcraft, Sin and many others.

This all-in-one solution enables rendering of ultra realistic effects ranging from clouds, pyroclastic smoke, dust, superb explosions effects, liquid metals, water and various procedurally defined "hard" objects.

Unique solutions (features) that were carefully designed and built into the AfterBurn set of plugins will introduce you to a completely new meaning for the word "creativity".

With AfterBurn Deamons you can even drill a hole through clouds or change the wind direction and strength.

AfterBurn Effects enable glowing based on particle age, or transferring AfterBurn Z-buffer, Mtl-buffer to MAX buffers so you can apply Glow or Depth of Field effects. The Numerous examples and presets on the CD will make learning easy and fun.


AfterBurn is a fully volumetric raymarching engine, and excels at creating very natural looking effects. All of the standard MAX particles can be turned into fireballs, clouds, smoke, explosions, nebulae, liquid metals, canyons in a matter of minutes!

Video Post glow filter - Allowing glow of AfterBurn effects, with varying glow size and strength with particle age

Combustion - Standard MAX Combustion with AfterBurn technology. Features: glow, falloff, proper mixing with AfterBurn, HyperSolids, two shading algorithms and built in antialiasing for HyperSolids.

One of the AfterBurn’s many unique features is the ability to assign glows, and even depth-of-field to different parts of the volumetric effect. This is possible since AfterBurn lets the user create their own channels for Z-Buffer, ID-Channel Buffer, and Age Buffer. These channels can be transferred to MAX standard buffers for use of other (non-AfterBurn) Video Post filters. AfterBurn even has its own Glow filter which is capable of glowing AfterBurn volumetric output -- with glow color, strength and size varying with the age of the volumetric particle.

With AfterBurn’s intuitive user interface and three preview windows, exacting complex effects can be created quickly. Like 3D Studio MAX, nearly every parameter is animatable. As an aid to animating parameters based on particle age, AfterBurn features optional spline-based graphic control of each parameter

Effects like fire turning into a smoke are easily created with just one particle emitter, and one AfterBurn entry.