Dust Particles in max

[drunkirishmic]

i did a dust tut in a book a long time ago, i think on max 2.5 or somethin. anyways u used a parray with spheres, have the parray to emit from the wheels or whatever object is gonna create the dust.

use spheres, for matrials, use a face map with noise. just use the colors u need for the dust in the noise map.

this a simple tut, it turned out pretty well if i remember correctly.

hope this helps

[BrandonD]

There's quite a bit you can do to create dust. The easiest is to use Facing particles. This is a particle type that consists of planar polygons that always face the camera. If you face map these with a radial gradient masked by a Particle Age map in the opacity channel you can create this soft shape that will blend together with the particles.

You could do the same with sphere using a falloff map in the opacity channel to get rid of the sphere's hard edge.

[slice56]

thank you very much for the help! ill get right to it then ;)

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