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I hope this helps Max users to bring their particle-animated models and vfx to Sketchfab.A solid material is composed of different types of elementary particles, such as protons and neutrons. It has a great UI, performs fast and saves a couple of cleanup clicks I had to do in Blender and Maya, like disabling the original particle system. Pretty simple, wasn’t it? 🙂 Compared to the baking workflow in Blender and Maya, the 3ds Max script feels quite a bit more intuitive for me. In case you’re running into such an issue you might want to simplify your graph and split it into multiple, less complex Particle Flow graphs to workaround the problem. Keep in mind that due to the powerful nature of the system there might be things that can’t be baked or exported, depending on the complexity of your event sequences. You could even use the 3ds max Sketchfab plugin to save a couple of more clicks. The last step remaining is uploading your creation to Sketchfab. Now you should see a lot of new objects in your hierarchy, one for each particle you baked. Apart from un-checking “Animate Visibility”, hitting the Bake button with the default settings should be fine in most cases 🙂 The settings here a pretty self-explanatory. This will open the PFlow Baker window where you can bake one particle system at a time: You can run the script using “Run Script” found in the “Scripting” dropdown menu of the 3ds Max top UI bar. This script can be executed from anywhere on your computer but for convenience it should be placed inside your 3ds Max’s scripts folder, e.g.: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2016\scripts With this we will be able to bake each of our particles into a separate object. Now we will use a script known as PFlow Baker, created by Ofer Zelichover. This is important to make sure we will definitely get meshes that can properly be exported.Īpart from that you should be good to go.

And for even more functionality there are also commercial plugins to extend the system by a couple of nodes.Īfter this small introduction let’s get back to what we actually want to do here 🙂 Preparing your effect for bakingīefore you can bake your effect make sure you use the Shape Instance node in your PF graph to reference an object from your scene as particle (similar to what I did in the example earlier). The Space Warps of 3ds Max can be used natively, too. You can find all of the nodes at the bottom of the Particle View window. This way you can build more advanced behaviours using a combination of the various nodes. I could add more nodes below the Age Test node to get a more complex behaviour or do something completely different in Event 002. These node events really make the system pretty powerful. Use a reference object from within the scene as a particle shapeĪnd now, based on the particle’s age, it will either enter Event 002 and delete the particle or stay in Event 001 and display the particle.

Position them on the PF Source object icon.

The PF Source object I placed inside the scene enters Event 001. All of the elements are placed inside event blocks and executed each frame (from top to bottom). This means the look of your particle effect is created using a selection of various pre-defined graph elements. Here’s a quick explanation of how Particle Flow works: Particle Flow is a node and event-based system. After that open the Particle View window (found under Graph Editors -> Particle View). You can create your first PF Source object by dragging it into the scene. There are a variety of different systems but the most powerful is Particle Flow, labeled “PF Source”. In 3ds Max you can find all of the particle systems in the Geometry tab, inside the “Particle Systems” dropdown menu. Also, before creating your effect, remember that special particle-exclusive properties like color over lifetime can’t be baked to regular objects and thus won’t be exported. Particles can’t be exported as they are so we have to convert them to regular objects while still keeping the particle motion intact. The general approach here is similar to the one from my Maya and Blender tutorials.