hello,
i want lights to make thundering effect using light parameters or any other do you know, can anyone guide me how to do thunder effect
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thanks!

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3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

Do you want to actually see the lightning, or just get the flashing light effect of it?
For the light, create a light, then open Track view. Expand the light’s Ojbect tracks, and assign a Noise Float controller to the Multiplier track. Now the light will flicker, adjust the settings, Frequency etc.. to your liking. So the lightning is not constantly there, Keyframe the Strength from off to on then off again for the duration of the lightning strike.
To see the lightning, it could be done post render in a compositor, some have plugins/effects for this, or even rotorscope (hand paint) the lightning onto the rendered frames with a glow effect.
To do it within Max, you could try a renderable spline, with Self Illumination, a visibility track and animated noise. Or a plane mapped with opacity and self illumination from a lightning image.
Google some reference images or even footage to see how it really looks.
If you can get some lightning footage, you could comp that on.

is their any tutorial for brief explaination

3D Studio Max 2009 to 2013 64-bit,
Intel G35 chipset, Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz,
4 GB DDR2 RAM,
EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (Driver 295.73),
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit,
INDIA.

3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

is their any tutorial for brief explaination

I’m not aware of any lightning tutorials, but that doesn’t mean there are none.

i was not good about Noise Float controller if you don’t mind samab can you explain me breifly

3D Studio Max 2009 to 2013 64-bit,
Intel G35 chipset, Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz,
4 GB DDR2 RAM,
EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (Driver 295.73),
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit,
INDIA.

3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

Here are some screen graps that may make it clearer for you.

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your great man. i have made clouds and i want to add thunder effect to the clouds to the necessary area. i have created clouds separate object for each clouds. did this light to be excluded some of the objects.

And one more thing to do that light have to fade off at the edges

3D Studio Max 2009 to 2013 64-bit,
Intel G35 chipset, Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz,
4 GB DDR2 RAM,
EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (Driver 295.73),
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit,
INDIA.

3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

And one more thing to do that light have to fade off at the edges

Do you mean Attenuation? You can set the falloff distance for that in the light’s parameters.

thanks alot man you helping my work to done easily.

3D Studio Max 2009 to 2013 64-bit,
Intel G35 chipset, Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz,
4 GB DDR2 RAM,
EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (Driver 295.73),
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit,
INDIA.

3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

hey can you explain me how Attenuation will works i have tried, but cannot get good.

3D Studio Max 2009 to 2013 64-bit,
Intel G35 chipset, Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz,
4 GB DDR2 RAM,
EVGA Geforce GTX 550 Ti 2 GB (Driver 295.73),
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit,
INDIA.

3dsmax Reflection and Refraction Tutorial - http://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/3dsmax_reflection_and_refraction_tutorial

Max comes with a very comprhensive Help system. Much of the information you need is there if only you look for it.