Reveal Techniques and Autodesk University in Las Vegas

very nice. is there a finished script for the reveal script ? i have no scripting skills at all. and if one is to do a very large animation " building houses/ skyscraper etc it would take a long time to set it up.

Henrik :-)

There are a couple of solutions possible...

First would be to render the particles as a separate pass and render a few pass of thoses with various birth seeds (in particle flow properties). By changing seeds, particles are generated with different starting points. By adding the layers on top of each others, you get the effect of millions of particles without killing RAM on your machine.

Second choice is to use specialized particles rendering tools such as Krakatoa from Frantic Films (Now Prime Focus): software.primefocusworld.com/software/

Very very useful tutorial. I actually posted a similar workflow question here
area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/animation/cool-enimation-effect-how/

because I wanted to achieve this look

www.3dmadness.de/projects/sew_transformer/sew_ig_getriebe_wz_web_384k_unhinted.mov

P.S. I tried to render the particle flow method. Using 30000 birthrate just made my renders 10min per frame on a simple object. How do you render such high number of particles?

Man, your tutorials are the best ! thank u very much

interesting. I wrote to script to animate visibility very easily. check it out :

loran-cg.blogspot.com/2009/10/vizpaintermaxscript.html

loran-cg.blogspot.com/2009/10/vizanimator-maxscript.html

Those script tutorial are very useful , big thank you for your sharing.

I downloaded these from AU virtual, & they were very helpful. Thanks Louis.