How to create warp gate in max
I suppose that some of you watched sci-fi movies and thought how did they created the wormhoal gates in space.I must say I'v tried to do that with material editor,video post and finnaly I'v found the right solution.It calls volumetric lights.
Corectlly I can say it is fire effect.But the same you can create it with volume fog effects.The difference betwen two of them is, with fire effects you can render much faster then with volume fog.And it is very important when you creating the animations.Now lets enter in nebula clouds.
Restart 3ds max choose perspective and create atmospheric gizmo(on the side bar choose helpers-atmospheric gizmo
then choose hemisphere, after it you can press seed(experiment with it)
now you must enter in to rendering-enviroment-atmospheric-add effects-fire effects
very important you must click pick gizmo in the rollout for fire effect and click on the hemisphere gizmo.
now enter in the fields following numbers
colors:inner blue-outer violet-smoke darkgrey(experiment with it)
flame type: tendril
stretch:5.0(experiment with higher numbers)
regularity:0.5-0.7
flame size:about 17
flame detail: 8
density: 1-3
samples: 8
and the settings for playing for animations are phase and drift.
phase:185
drift: 245
Now you must scale the gizmo in left viewport with scale tool
then choose free camera press "c" on keyboard to enter to camera mode
press F9 and render the camera or perspective viewport,there are no effects in other viewports trust me.
in the down right angle you can see buttons for camera now choose the button called perspective it looks like 3d cube try to move it out and inside the gizmo.
Now if you are satisfated with rezult you can create one or more space ships and stars to create scifi scene,You must experiment and maybe you will find better solution then I did.Also you can rotate with camera and find the right angle for warp gate.To speed the rendering you must lower particularly density,the same procedure you can use with volume fog effect.So here it is my result,also I have animation with 3 spaceships exit from one wormhoal and then desapearing in another.Have a fun.I hope so that you'v enjoyed in my first tutorial,if you have any questions or problems you can freely contact me koleos@neobee.net
with experimenting with these settings
end of the tutorial
