rogle Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 Hi Im currently in the process of doing an animation which will show an empty barn being filled up with grain (wheat, barley e.t.c). I want to show the grain falling from a top conveyor to the ground then forming a pile. I am assuming the best method to acheive this is to use particle flow but I am abit unsure as I havnt been using max that long. I wondered if this is the best way and if so are there any pointers or tutorials I should be looking at thanx P.s. I am not intending to completly fill the barn using this method as it will be too time consuming so I will probly do some sort of fade animation which will show the grain pile at different stages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielledew Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hey Rogle Did you ever find out how to get this right? I'm trying to do a simulation of coal and struggling as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogle Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Nope I still havnt got around to attempting it tbh I found a tutorial that I had an attempt at for falling sand and I think it would be a similar method. This is the link hope it helps http://www.kxcad.net/autodesk/3ds_max/Autodesk_3ds_Max_9_Tutorials/tut_animating_the_falling_sand.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raudel Solis Posted January 11, 2012 Share Posted January 11, 2012 oh... ive done this before... and you need deflectors...and im forgetting the rest, il need to dig for the file in my Ext HDD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielledew Posted January 12, 2012 Share Posted January 12, 2012 I tried that tutorial, rogle and it worked brilliantly. I used a superspray particle system instead of snow so I could define what my falling particles look like. I'd love to know of other ways to achieve this though Raudel, so if you could dig up your files that'd be helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogle Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 Glad it helped Yea it would be good to see if there was another approach to this and if it would be more effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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