3D Studio MAX - Procutter Tool / Reactor Wall Part 4

This is a four part tutorial showing the uses of
the 3D Studio MAX procutter tool and booleans.

The first two parts will demonstrate how to break up a wall
and maintain its texture on a basic level.

The last two parts will demonstrate how to use the fracture
reactor constraint within reactor and simulate an impact on the wall.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3d
• studio
• max
• tutorial
• iwkya
• hybrid
• machinima
• reactor
• wall
• break
• phyisics
• animation
• fracture
• procutter
• cutter
• boolean
• keyframes

[deadboydricospant]

Oright mate. Love the tuts. Do you have any idea how to make the individual particles (i.e. the blocks in this) collide as opposed to fall through eachother. I can't seem to do it. I guess messing with the settings, yeah?

[iwkya1]

Not sure that ya mean. The blocks are all part of the reactor physics so they should collide. Have a play with collision tollerance. You can do the same thing with pflow but reactor i prefer for walls and bricks.

[spade1984]

Do you have any idea how I could animate a bullet going through a text a breaking/shattering each letter as it runs through it?

[iwkya1]

Well, off the top of my head you could do it this way using procutter but it would be easier to use pflow. I haven't got enough room to explain pflow here. I shall look about doing a tut on it.

[salazar1134]

try a sphere with a mass of 100 :D that sure made my day

[WaynesAniWorld]

im having a problem with pro cutter, everytime i cut the wall i lose the texture? i have baked the material to the object by applying a uvw map and then collapsed it.

any idea? its driving me mad! cheers :)

[slimpie125]

@DjWth i just cracked :P

[DjWth]

@choyear I have the full version. I payed for it. ;o

[iwkya1]

Well, actually you can get a lite copy of max for free called g-max, also you could download the demo. If you are a student or teacher of any kind, you can buy a license for $100. The $3495 is just a corporate version hence you need this if you want to make money of the stuff you make.

[choyear]

If you're talking about 3ds max, is far from free. It costs $3495.

If you mean reactor, well, it comes with 3ds max, so it's not free either.

[Einheit396]

Is this programm free?

If not How much??

If it is free, where can i download it?

BAsti

[spade1984]

Thank you very much, I look forward to a tutorial if and when you have the time.

Cheers!