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does anyone know how to make something similar to this http://www.art4eye.com/splash/1/back.jpg in 3ds max


[This message has been edited by darknosis (edited 07-24-2003).]

Have you tried?

I'm guessing you basically make a folded kind of shape, and then make it semi-transparent, and then play around with lighting and color a bit.

I'm sure you're looking for more indepth than that....but I'm sure if yo get in there and play around, a lot of the problems will work themselves out. The ones that don't will give you something more specific to ask, that will give you a better chance of getting good advice.

It's rather difficult to just spew out instructions for an entire peice...

One of the easiest ways is to use NURBS.

In one viewport, make a randome NURBS curve.
Go to another viewport and make another random curve.
Another randome viewport and repeat.

In the floating NURBS toolbar, there is a button near the bottom called "Multi-Blend Surface" or something. I looks like 3 pipes coming together at a corner. Choose that one, then click each of your random curves one at a time. Once you click the 3rd random curves, you should be treated to a fancy-smancy, smoothish, yet random, surface. Then it's just a matter of other tweaking and adding a slightly transparent material.

urm... there's also a photoshop filter called Sinedots that does something similar.

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[This message has been edited by yak (edited 07-30-2003).]

it almost looks like smoke or some thing

Warjournal hit the nail on the head.
http://www.spoono.com/tutorials/3dstudiomax/2rail/

It's a newbie trend called "Abstract" **bites tongue**

Careful with this one it's "Exclusively Written"



[This message has been edited by r@m (edited 07-30-2003).]

Hey, check that out. Almost identical. Different surfacing method, but pretty much the same.

I got looking around that site, r@m, and I noticed a tutorial on making fire. At a glance, I looks *exactly* like Neil Blevin's fire material. Check it: Water, Fire and Smoke Effects Using Particles and Opacity Maps. Might be by Jason exclusively for Spoono, but it's Neil's material.

lol.........pure Neil Blevins, and not a single credit, I've used his materials before in projects, a simple credit isn't difficult.
I'm sure Neil would be happy someone has taken his original concept and put it into a step by step with graphics, even though the effect doesn't come close to the original.
Jasons tut comes over as immature and lacks personality......i got irritated and bored half way thru.
...........newbies writing tutorials for newbies.....

Oh...and BTW: the mapping on that model would have a falloff map under the opacity channel to get the "opaque on the edges" effect...play around with it...much fun.

You guys are all close, but no cigar. This technique can be done one of two ways:

One: use photoshop and a lot of the wave filter. Use Striding Studio's "Luminous Essence"
Two: Warjournal is right about modeling if you wish to do this in 3ds max. As for MATERIAL It' is not just a semi-transparent but a falloff transparency, and then not just that, but set your blending to "addadive" which will act much like "Screen" in photoshop. The more that overlaps, the closer to white you get. This works well for fire too. Then, seeing as how the very white areas give off a bt of gleam, I would suggest using photoshop for some post-production tidy-up. Select all white areas using select color and make a new layer filled with white, give it an outer glow of white too and set it to.. looks like color dodge. How's that work for ya' ? =D

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