Now I know how firestorm is made

kenosis

Anyone can do this in max? Particle illusion cannot render GIF.

The emitter launches particles,which have random size ,angular velocity and initial velocity,and they just fly upwards ,disappear. Single particle doesn't look like fire at all but when we have more,it becomes fire.

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Cranium · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Dec 2009 **Location**: USA

The 200 particle gif looks pretty sweet. and yes, thats doable in 3dsmax with FumeFX, just give the fire a bright color, and give the smoke a blue gradient.
Cant you just import your gif into shp builder? Why does it need to be done in 3dsMax?

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ApolloTD · Commander **Joined**: 19 Nov 2003

yeah confused me too but then maybe kenosis means a loop like GIF does, not literally a gif but repeating animation without a fade out and PI can do it just fine if thats what after, else makes little sense.

kenosis · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 2:26 pm Post subject:

Well,when you try to import PI renders the fade out effect is just terrible.You get black backgrounds everywhere;if you disable the background in render options,the translucent effect will be lost,which makes the animation plain,and if you try to remove them you have to kill many colors(I'm using animation shop,which can kill colors by RGB value),and in game you got a very small animation.

see,this looks pretty bad in game.

The point to use MAX is that you can get the output in gif format,which is easy to convert and no color will be lost.

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:13 pm Post subject:

I never had issues with PI neither.

Kenosis, get GIMP, put the frames into one gif (as layers) make black transparent, then turn stuff into 256 colors and export them into a GIF. There, problems solved.

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Graion Dilach wrote:

make black transparent

How do I do that?
Sorry, just installed the software.

Mav.EricK · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:51 pm Post subject:

Black is the background color, in GIMP, you use the "select by color" tool to select the black color then press delete, do that for every layer.

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