make water in 3dsmax 7

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:19 pm

how do you make water in 3dsmax 7

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:39 pm

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

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:49 pm

i have the reactor plugin i want to know how to acctually put water in halo
and make it renderable

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:50 pm

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.

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:53 pm

so what do i name it

Katarn · Post by **Katarn** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:54 pm

i wouldn't know, it might be in the default hek tutorial

machopenguin001 · Post by **machopenguin001** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:53 am

Whoa, you can ADD frames in max?! I've always wanted to make longer animation for like, CENTURIES!

x13igDudex12 · Post by **x13igDudex12** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:56 am

where can I get the reactor plug in?

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 8:57 am

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

x13igDudex12 · Post by **x13igDudex12** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:00 am

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

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:01 am

yeah im gonna check the hek tut

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:59 pm

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.

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:03 pm

both i want to know how to do both

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:24 pm

machopenguin001 wrote:Whoa, you can ADD frames in max?! I've always wanted to make longer animation for like, CENTURIES!

x13igDudex12 · Post by **x13igDudex12** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:26 pm

lol.....

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:35 pm

i'm right now making a new render it takes long but its kickass

Patrickssj6 · Post by **Patrickssj6** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 6:40 pm

here it is:

what do you guys think?

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:21 pm

OMG!!!!! HOW DO YOU DO THAT AND HOW DO YOU MAKE 3D TEXT TELL ME!!!!!!!!!!!

Sonictag · Post by **Sonictag** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 7:36 am

I will answer both of your questions there with a video tutorial! Muah!

theguy2042000 · Post by **theguy2042000** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:22 am

where!!!!!