Making a smoke partical effect in Vray!

[Mathew Everett]

Okay here is what I am doing! You all know LOTR...so I have creted a world Map of the are form the books. I need to get a smoke partical effect working for a screenshot. and the problem is I have never done smoke before, Can anyone or someone help me out on this?

here is a screen shot fo the mountain!


The map is far from being finished but I want to get the smoke completed in time!

this is for my BFME "Battle For Middle Earth" tournament site
http://www.bfmetournaments.com

[percydaman]

http://www.neilblevins.com/cg_educat...fire_smoke.htm

[jacksc02]

there is a smoke tutorial in the max install somewhere

[Mathew Everett]

really I will have to check that out! Thanks Guys!

[Morbid Angel]

dudes...if you want some serious smoke use afterburn, it is slow, but damn you can get some nice shit out of it. Examples...the day after tomorrow converging cloud with helicopter freezing sequence that was partially aftrerburn.
Try here http://petershipkov.com/development/.../afterburn.htm

[percydaman]

yeah i kinda figured afterburn wasn't in his budget, or he would have mentioned it.

[dbuchhofer]

http://www.maxforums.org/thread.aspx?tid=294177

Robs smoke is a decent one to 'disect' if you're looking for info onw how to make some smokey stuff..

[dbuchhofer]

the demo avi that came with it.. http://www.buchhofer.com/smoke.avi (1.2mb)

[Mathew Everett]

dudes...if you want some serious smoke use afterburn, it is slow, but damn you can get some nice shit out of it. Examples...the day after tomorrow converging cloud with helicopter freezing sequence that was partially aftrerburn.
Try here http://petershipkov.com/development/.../afterburn.htm

I would love to get afterburn, But it is out of my budget! as this is for a tournament site I run. i don't do work that would require afterburn for the most part!

an updated image!

http://www.mandmcr.com/online_images/Map_new.jpg
dont laugh as I am working out the smoke details and have to PS the balck smoke from the image!

[percydaman]

i think its looking pretty badass!

[Mathew Everett]

Does it give you the feeling of LOTR's?

[Da_elf]

pretty gnarly dude

[ngrava]

maybe you could use aura?

[asango]

there is also a great thread on cgtalk (i'd link it but its currently down for maintenance) under the 3dsMax section. its something like 175 pages but there are some great discussions about the power of particle flow.

i believe its stickied at the top.