advanced vfx with softimage particles (lagoa) and 3dsmax ... · ao final desta palestra você terá...

Advanced VFX with Softimage particles (Lagoa) and 3dsmax

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Victor Herrera Davila -Autodesk Latin America

In this class the audience will learn how to create elegant and quick VFX with the new interoperability “Send to” from 3dsmax to Softimage to 3dsmax again.

Objetivo de aprendizado Ao final desta palestra você terá condições de:

• learn the ” SEND TO “ workflow from 3dsmax to Softimage

• Learn how use Lagoa particles in Softimage, quick and simple

• Learn how to set up realistic lighting and materials

• Learn how to use Iray in 3dsmax to produce great looking renders

Sobre o Palestrante

Victor Herrera, Born in Mexico City

Current job: Autodesk Technical Specialist Media and Entertainment

12+ year technical experience in VFX, Post production and animation Power user of: Autodesk 3dsmax/ Maya / Motion Builder / Composite Teaching and mentoring 3d tools around Latin America for several years

Fx supervisor for important campaigns of the following companies:

Coca Cola , Nestle , Panasonic, Sony, Motorola,Hp,Pepsi. Telmex, VW, Mercedes Benz, BMW,

Music Industy content creation

o : Britney Spears Showcase and Image for her Latin America Tour o Mexican Pop musical group Mana DVD, distributed in all Latin America

(3d art director, post-production director

o :Chemical brothers Electronic Press Kit (graphics director) o : Peter Gabriel showcase and Electronic Press Kit o : Moby, TV Spots o : Lenny Kravitz national TV spot

Email: [email protected]


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1.1 ) Learn the ” SEND TO “ workflow from 3dsmax to Softimage

Open 3dsmax 2012 (you must have the 3dsmax Entertainment suite premium

a) Open the file ‘ford car start ’

b) Click on Perspective view to highlight


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c) Press play at the bottom right corner (the car is moving from frame 140 to 455) press the

rewind button to return to frame 0

d) Press C ( camera view) you can see the car with two planes (top and bottom)


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e) Press CTRL +A to select all the geometry ( car & two planes)

f) Click on 3dsmax icon at the top left corner, at the bottom of the menu click on ‘SEND TO

“ a fly out menu will show with Softimage , Mudbox , Motion Builder icons, click on the

‘SEND TO’ Softimage icon.

g) Select ‘send as a new scene’.


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h) Softimage start’s to load ( you need to have Softimage 2012 in the same machine)

click ok on the Softimage message, you are now connected to 3dsmax

g) Click on the viewport in Softimage (wireframe button) select Shaded


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h) Now you can see the same 3dsmax geometry inside Softimage , click on the plane 001

object to select

1.2 Learn how to use Lagoa particles in Softimage, quick and simple

a) With the plane 001 selected , click on the left side menu ( Particles / Create) select

Lagoa Particles volume emission


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b) After clicking create Lagoa volume emission, you have to select the collider which is the

car, a PICK green arrow will appear, select the car.

c) The Lagoa setting shows up on the right corner, change the resolution per unit to 4

press play, the lagoa particles will drop from the plane and will collide with the car

around frame 150


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d) Change the Resolution to 1.5, rewind and press play again, you will see more particles

and the calculation time will increase because the number of particles. We want to use

more particles to achieve better results, MORE PARTICLES = BETTER RESULTS

e) Click on the bottom right corner UPDATE, this action will start to cache the particles and

send to 3dsmax.

f) Switch to 3dsmax and press play, you will see the Pflow emitter with the particles acting

like the Softimage particles.


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g) If you press 6 on the keyboard, you can see the Pflow schematic with the new Point

cloud cache from Softimage

1.3 Learn how to set up realistic lighting and materials

2 Click on systems- daylight, click on the viewport (click and drag) to create the compass,

click yes on the dialogs about MR sun and Sky and release the mouse when you have the

daylight closer to the elevation as the image above.


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b) Click the F9 to make a render test, the render frame and start to render the scene, It takes

around 1 min to render.

c) Change the camera position, find a nice shot for your car like the image below.


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d) Open the material editor (M) select the first one called ”ford focus body”, change the colors as

you want , you are using the Autodesk material library, you can import the models from Inventor,

Revit, Autocad with the Autodesk materials already applied.


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1.4 Learn how to use Iray in 3dsmax to produce great looking renders

a) Open the render setting dialog (press F10) , Iray is the render engine , the only thing you

need to set up it’s the time.

Iray already configure the lighting settings and the final gather etc, like mental ray. The

good thing about iray its about NO CONFIGURATION REQUIRED, just need to put the

time that you want to render, Iray will use you video card gpu ( if you have one) or it will

use the CPU’s to deliver the best image possible in terms on the time setup

b) Iray can use the mental ray library, it’s very simple to use, you can get very fast results

with a few clicks.

Links about Iray

http://irayrender.com/

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/shane/the_iray_faq

Links to Softimage.blog

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/marks

Links to 3dsmax blog

http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/louis


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