Walking through mParticles

With the release of the Subscription Advantage Pack for 3ds Max 2013, simulation…and particle effects artists have received an extremely powerful set of…physics-based simulation tools that are collectively known as mParticles.…Because mParticles offer up such a vast array of tools and open up such a vast…array of options, we will in this chapter only be able to touch on a tiny…fraction of what is possible with this impressive and powerful set of tools.…In this video we want to take a look at the MassFX flow preset and point out to…you the new mParticle operators that have been added to particle flow.…

Naturally, the first thing we want to do is open up Particle view.…To do that we can just hit the 6 key on our keyboard.…The first piece of the mParticle toolset we come across down in the depot is the MassFX Flow.…This is basically a quick-start preset that can get us up and running with…mParticles very quickly indeed.…If I just left-click and drag, I can add a MassFX Flow to the event display area.…