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[MrAngryFace]

Im messing with the settings on a boxgizmo but I cant get like swirly real looking fog, there's too much noise and it looks very silent hill.

 

[COCKLES]

I have no idea how to make clouds in MAx. But I thought I'd reply just incase you thought we didn't love you any more MAF.

 

[Gattsu25]

make 2 sets of clouds: one with slight noise and one without

that's how i used to do it...been a while since i've even seen 3DSM, though

 

[MrAngryFace]

Im using volume fog and made a cloud, sorta, I figure I could just clone the gizmo and randomize the numbers to produce different patterns. I wanted to make a large wall of clouds but im not very good at 3dmax after 3 weeks ;P

 

[Blacklion]

I H8 the fog options in max it lacks in flexibilityIMO.

Far as swirls go...I dont think using fog is the way to go
Try using particles attached to paths

this tut is good for smoke...you may be able to expand on it to get you swirly fog.
http://www.3dkingdom.org/modules.ph...e=article&sid=254&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

Also; rendering your fog separate and then adding in post can give you more freedom.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah im doing the fog in a seperate project then ill merge it into something else. Im going for something very simple, which is good, but for the sake of art, I need to get it right.

Im sorta the odd duck in my 3dmax class since im a minimalist at heart, so most of my projects look like wallpapers ;P

Ill check out the tutorial. I saw a cool one using some combustion plugin but I cant get that at school. Thanks for the help.