tonybishop

if he is a subscribe to lynda then he can do it without a plug in Particle Effects in 3ds Max this will teach you most of the special effects but it's very basic, link http://www.lynda.com/3ds-Max-tutorials/Particle-Effects-3ds-Max/52772-2.html?srchtrk=index:1%0Alinktypeid:2%0Aq:3ds%2Bmax%0Apage:1%0As:relevance%0Asa:true%0Aproducttypeid:2

and this thread was nothing to do with me, or my models it has to do with the question above! which you have not really respound too

No i have never heard of them, just because a website looks the same does not mean it is, you have never seen my CV in real life, and i don't know what you are talking about

you can still download the demo version of rayfire, people can spend up-to $3500 on 3ds max then some expect all plugs-ins to be free if it only works like that Chris but it does not in this world

No because all you do is make criticism saying stuff i do does not work and it's not in the manual and it does work IF you read the tutorials that i have written then they will work but you don't follow them you like to say they don't work.

they should work they worked for me

what kind of money are you willing to spend on a VGA card there are a lot out there you can spend anywhere from a 80 USD for a beginner's one like the AMD firepro v3500 which i have i went for it because that is all that i can afford, or you can go for something like the AMD FirePro W7000 graphics card but that is more expensive 809.26 USD i would look for the autodesk Certified Hardware these are recommended by autodesk the only problem is i could not find the one just dealing with VGA cards http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/syscert?id=18844534&siteID=123112 opps i did not see you can change the dot from computer to graphics card, my bad sorry

where did you get this max from? to use an older version like max 8 you would need to use 3ds max service pack 2 i am using 3ds max 9 on windows 7 how did you install the plugin? did you do it from the plugin manager and load it?

here is a couple more that i have written on my community http://video-game-architect.freeforums.net/thread/117/create-realistic-demolition-effects http://video-game-architect.freeforums.net/thread/27/demolish-building-3ds-max

so you completely remodeled it? and you are getting the same it takes a long time to open we have already have a topic on this http://forums.cgarchitect.com/78973-cant-open-files.html you don't say how much memory you have inside your computers, don't forget whatever you have in max from lighting models to camera's animation etc they all take up memory max can be eat up computer memory

how big is the file and how much ram (memory) do you have? have you added the lastest service pack and hotfixes from the autodesk website? is your Graphic cards drivers up-to date?

what i thought you meant is you deleted the top and bottom face of your giant ocean box, you could of just deattach them so you can get to holes in your ocean box,

You can bridge the cracks in between the structures? also makes you when you booleans/proboolean the objects are intersecting with the bowl instead of deleting the box why not just deattach it or use the slice tool to slice a bottom of an object The Slice modifier lets you create a cutting plane that slices through a mesh, creating new vertices, edges and faces based on the location of the slice plane gizmo. The vertices can either refine or split the mesh according to the selected options. The Slice modifier slices through groups, selected objects or sub-object selections of faces.

try this one http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/mxs2/freehandspline/ outline FHS converts the mouse world coordinates into spline knot (vertex) points with user-defined precision. When the distance of mouse to the last point drawn exceeds the user-specified Min.Segment Length, the next point is generated. FHS allows for multiple splines in a single shape, open/closed splines, curve/line segments, renderable splines, and extruded or meshed contours. it maybe not the one your looking for and you won't find everything for free you would need to spend some money on the plugin's and scripts you want

I gave you a link to a script in the last reply but i don't know if that would of helped