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make water in 3dsmax 7
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:19 pm
by theguy2042000
how do you make water in 3dsmax 7
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:39 pm
by Katarn
you can't just *make water*. Unless you are using reactor. Which you obviously aren't. I can tell you how to make animated deformable terrain that looks like water tho. I'll give you a quick tutorial.
1. make a plane
2. convert to editable poly
3. select the face, and click tesselate 5 times
4. apply a noise modifier
5. check fractal, now, mae the correct amount of z axis change
6. choose a seed
7. check animate noise
8. increase or decrease the amount of frequency, constantly looking at the animation
9. put a lot more than 100 frames in your animation, about 1000 is good
10. drag your ending of the noise animation to the end of your animation
11. enjoy
doing this without using fractal might work better
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:49 pm
by theguy2042000
i have the reactor plugin i want to know how to acctually put water in halo
and make it renderable
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:50 pm
by Katarn
oh, you just name the face material the right thing and in halo it will be water, you have to do it this way for it to show up in max.
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:53 pm
by theguy2042000
so what do i name it
Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:54 pm
by Katarn
i wouldn't know, it might be in the default hek tutorial
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:53 am
by machopenguin001
Whoa, you can ADD frames in max?! I've always wanted to make longer animation for like, CENTURIES!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:56 am
by x13igDudex12
where can I get the reactor plug in?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:57 am
by theguy2042000
it comes with max 6 and 7 but the 7 plgin is better if you have 5 i dont think it has the reactor plugin
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:00 am
by x13igDudex12
i think sunny sharma said to name it "water" for regular water and if you want fog in the water name it "$water" or something like that and add the fog somewhere
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:01 am
by theguy2042000
yeah im gonna check the hek tut
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:59 pm
by Sonictag
You want to make water with reactor in 3ds max, or you wanna make water for halo? If you want a reactor plugin on water I will make you one.
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:03 pm
by theguy2042000
both i want to know how to do both
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:24 pm
by BEEF!!!
machopenguin001 wrote:Whoa, you can ADD frames in max?! I've always wanted to make longer animation for like, CENTURIES!
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:26 pm
by x13igDudex12
lol.....
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:35 pm
by Patrickssj6
i'm right now making a new render it takes long but its kickass
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:40 pm
by Patrickssj6
here it is:
what do you guys think?
Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:21 pm
by theguy2042000
OMG!!!!! HOW DO YOU DO THAT AND HOW DO YOU MAKE 3D TEXT TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:36 am
by Sonictag
I will answer both of your questions there with a video tutorial! Muah!
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:22 am
by theguy2042000
where!!!!!