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 An explosion, created with AfterBurn.
Overview AfterBurn is a volumetric effects plugin for Autodesk's 3D Studio Max software, which has been used in several feature films. AfterBurn is one of very few plugins to create and render true volumetrics within 3ds max. AfterBurn can be used to create a wide variety of realistic effects, for example: - Thick, billowing smoke
- Large, gaseous explosions
- Thick or thin clouds
- Dust (thick storms or dust clouds)
- Flowing water, via "HyperSolids"
Integration with 3ds max  Fire consisting of around 2000 particles, created with AfterBurn  A few particles that make up the same fire Although AfterBurn excels at gaseous explosions and thick smoke, it's not as suited to creating tendril-like flames. AfterBurn can be tweaked into giving a flame look, but there are several other 3ds max plugins that can create or even simulate flames in a more realistic way, such as FumeFX, another Sitni Sati plugin. Features Nearly every aspect of AfterBurn's volumetric effects can be tweaked by the user. Moreover, nearly every changeable parameter can be animated over time with "flow curves" or gradient ramps. Particles can change colors and size over time, animate in a variety of different ways, or grow denser or thinner over time, to name a few things. For an explosion, for example, you'd want the particles to start small, grow in size quickly and slowly stop expanding; the material would morph from bright yellow/white to orange, red, and finally into a dark gray or black, animating quickly at first, and then slowing down to a clouding smoke. Use in feature film AfterBurn has been used in a number of feature films, some of which include: See also - DreamScape, a plugin from the creators of AfterBurn that is used to render skies, seas and terrain, among other things.
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