Mushroom cloud 3ds max tutorial 3/4
An in-depth intermediate tutorial on how to create a nuclear explosion in 3Ds max 4 and onwards without additional plugins. If your using an older version, use editable mesh instead of editable poly & activate animate on the mesh and directly deform it instead of using morpher.
This tutorial will hopefully teach you how to:
model a mushroom cloud using splines + lathe + editable mesh/poly
make 3 explosive materials using displace, diffuse & cellular maps
make blend materials and apply UVW maps
animate and morph a mushroom cloud using morpher
model some fences using splines + extrude
create a camera shake using dummy + noise position controller
create an exploding particle effect using pCloud + pBomb
add a radial blur to the camera
add an object blur to the particle system
add a glow effect to the head of the mushroom cloud
make your own SFX in Audacity
play sound in 3ds max
Tutorial is based of a text tutorial by Julien Vanhoenacker
http://www.omind.net/
http://www.onitz.net/tutorial/tutoria...
The final result is a direct render from 3ds max (includes sound)
CGI ftw
download .3ds file from
http://www.onitz.net/resource/index.php