Animating the Fire, Lights & scene in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) - Tutorial / Lesson |
In this chapter, we are going to animate the fire effect, lighting, the duck and the camera movement in the room scene. You will learn many techniques that will be useful in a variety of situations. Open the scene 'chap10-fireplace.max'. (Download the scene here if you don't have it). Save the scene under a new name 'chap11-room-animated.max'
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| -Animating the Fire in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) - Tutorial / Lesson |
In the last lesson, you learned how to create fire using the fire effect in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). But the fire that we created was not animated. Animating the fire is simple. Click on Rendering> Environment from the main menu bar and select the fire effect that we created in the last lesson from the list. Within the parameters, you can see the Motion subcategory . It has two parameters - Phase and Drift. You animate these parameters in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) for animating the fire. Animating the Phase value in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ) , causes the fire samples to wave, whereas animating the drift causes simulation of the flames moving up.
Click on the Auto Key button to turn automatic keying on in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). Now make sure that the time slider is at Frame 0. With the Auto Key mode turned on, move the time slider to the last frame and change the value of Phase to 300 and Drift to 200. Once you change these values, you will notice that a red boundary surrounds the value fields signifying that they are being animated in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). This happened because, while you changed the values, the Auto Key mode was turned on in 3D Studio MAX ( 3ds max ). Simply drag the time slider to and fro to see the values changing with time. Now the fire is animated. But you can see the effect of the animation, only if you render the whole scene into a file and play it back, which we will do later.
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towards the right most end (Move the mouse pointer over it to display the names). Click on it. A dialog box appears, showing that the currently selected pattern is Constant, which means that the frames don't repeat.
