Reveal Techniques and Autodesk University in Las Vegas

Hi.

I'm super new at scripting, and wanted this tutorial to be my first try. So I retyped (!) your PowerAnimator script - tried to run it...But then a 'MAXscript Rollout Handler Exeption' pops up with this message: "--Type error: qsort requires Array, got: undefined"

Here's my retyped script:
dl.dropbox.com/u/675238/PowerAnimator%20Script%20%28RB%29.ms

I've been unable to find out what's wrong. Is it me or the script?... and is there somwhere I can find your script?

Hola Luis, muy buen tutorial, pero me gustaría saber como puedo lograr este tipo de animaciones de reconstrucciones animadas:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8SE4xmDsw

Me podrías guiar o algún tutorial, gracias.

great thanks! getting started in MAXSxript! Awesome :)

very helpful tutorials Louis!!!! Thanks so much..

Awesome tutorial :D

Louis, you R O C K!

Man, I'm glad you broke these into parts; it was kind of hart to get through the one from AU when I would need to go back & examen it.

Hello Marcoux, Great tutorials. To tell you the truth I didn't found the time to watch them all but I've saw the one with the reactor technique. You have done great use of proCutter.. In the tutorial you faced a problem after the reaactors simulation in some frames. It's a driver problem etc, it's a reactors problem. If you select the problematic object and go to the problematic frame watch what's happeing in the fcurves. There is a huge problem in the curves that forces your object to spin like crazy. So this is not causing the viewport problem, but if you you real objec motion blur your results are really crazy.

Hope that helped,
Nick

Hello Louis, ur tutorials are very good and very useful. But suddenly today I'm unable to view your tutorials. what might be the proble????

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.