Breaking the Asteroid into Flying Pieces with Particle Array

Creating Explosions

Controlling Particle Animation

 

Autodesk 3ds Max Tutorials > Animation Tutorials > Creating Explosions > 

Adding Materials to the Particles

Add materials:

1. In the Particle Type rollout > Material Mapping And Source group, choose Picked Emitter.
2. Click the Get Material From button.

   

   The asteroid’s materials appear on the particles in the viewport.

   

Expand the control panel again:

1. Move the cursor over the far-left edge of the command panel.

   The cursor once again changes to a double arrow.

2. Click and drag the cursor to the left to open a third column.

   Now the Basic Parameters rollout appears in the first column, the Particles Type rollout in the second, and most additional rollouts in the new third column.

   

   TipTo close the additional columns, drag the left edge of the command panel to the right.