Intermediate Tutorial 2 - Creating Explosions

explosions folder
In this lesson, you will learn some advanced techniques about animating and adding materials and effects to objects to make them look realistic in 3dsMax.

Click the link at the right and extract the explosions folder to your home directory, adding your lastname at the beginning of the folder name.

Instructions:

1. From the Help menu Tutorials, open the Creating Explosions tutorial in the Animation section.
   
   
2. Follow the directions to create and modify the animations, through all of the sections of the tutorial (there are lots, but they are all short), continuing from your previous lesson for each section.
   
   
3. As you work, save the nine (9) files using the names as directed, putting your lastname in the front of the filename:
   myrotating_asteriod1.max
   myexplosion1.max
   myexplosion2.max
   myexplosion_w_particles.max
   myexplosion3.max
   myexplosion_w_light.max
   myexplosion4.max
   myexplosion5.max
   myexplosion2.avi
   
   
4. Compress your folder containing all the files you created as well as the original files.
   

Place a copy of your compressed explosions folder in the Computer Animation Turn-in Folder