Lecture 7

MODELLING-PARTICLES OBJECTS

Prepared by:
Rosiadi Bin Tajudin

KOLEJ KOMUNITI KEPALA BATAS – MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

 Learning objectives
At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

d) States the concept of particles systems and its 2 common features.

e) States 3 types of particles.
f) States 6 types of particles systems.
g) Apply particles systems to create particle objects.
h) Render particle objects creted into .avi file format.
i) States 2 types of tools and its function that cause direction alteration to
particles objects.
j) Apply tools that cause direction alteration to particles objects.
 Particles Systems
 Particles systems are used to create multiple objects that move
over time.

 Used to stimulate rain, snow, blowing sand and smoke, or anything

that involves numerous small objects.
 Common Features of Particles
Systems
 Two common features of particles systems is:

 Emitter
 Non-rendering object use as the location where the particles begin their
lives.
 Variety of shapes, including planes, boxes, cylinder, and emitter-specific
icons.

 Particles
 The real meat of a particle system.
 How the particles looks known as the type of particles emitted.
 2D particle shape, called “facing” particle (square shape)
 3D particle shape.
Common Features of Particles
Systems
Emitter

Particles
 Types of Particles
Three types of 3D particles :

 Standard shapes (Triangles, stars, tetrahedrons, cubes, and

spheres)

 Metaparticles (based on metaball technology)

 Instance geometry (Substituted particles with any 3D object

in a scene) at rendering time.
Types of Particles

Meta Instance
Standard Particles particles geometry
 Types of Particles Systems
Six types of particles systems is:

3. Spray
 Basic particle system.
 Particles are emitted from a plane-shaped emitter (tetrahedron
or facing particles).

4. Snow
 Similar to spray particle system.
 Has a tumble factor to each 2D particle emitted.
 Enable star, triangle, or facing particles to rotate randomly in
falling snow or billowing leaves.
 Types of Particles Systems
1. Super Spray
 Has large amount of control over emission, motion, and type of
particles.

2. Blizzard
 Updated version of snow particle system with much of the
control found in the Super Spray.

3. PAarray
 Use existing geometry object in the scene as the emitter.
 Particles can be emitted from the object’s edges, vertices, or
faces.
 Types of Particles Systems

2. PCloud
 Restricts the loction of the particles to the volume of Pcloud
icon or a selected geometry object.
 Tutorial 1
 Creating particles object by using several types of particles
systems (Using spray, snow and super spray)

 Render the result into .avi file format.

Particles Direction Alteration
Two tools that can be used to alter the particles direction is
space warps and deflector.

4. Space warps

 Non-rendering object that can influence the appearance of

geometry or the motion of the particles in a particle system.
 Altering the direction and speed of the particles.
 Example : Force (Wind, gravity, drag, PBomb and etc..)
Particles Direction Alteration
2. Deflector

 Cause particles that impact the deflectors to bounce at the

reciprocal angle that they hit the deflector.

 Deflectors are planar and SDeflectors are spherical, while

UDflector allows the selection of a scene object to act as a
deflector.
 Tutorial 2
2. Changing particles objects direction by using tools that
cause particles objects direction alteration (Space Warps
and Deflectors)

4. Render the result into .avi file format.

 Tutorial 3
 Creating smoke in 3ds Studio Max 8 by using particles
systems and put direction alteration (Space Warps and
Deflector) into particles objects created.
 Conclusion
 Common features of particles systems (Emitter and Particles)

 Types of particles (Standard particles, Meta particles and

Instance geometry)

 Types of particles systems (Spray, Snow, Super Spray,

Blizzard, PArray, and PCloud)

 Tools that can be used to alter particles objects direction (Space

Warps and Deflector)
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