Particle trails

Greetings,

I have been playing around with Max 4's particles and what I'm trying to do in Max is something that I can produce in Particle Illusion with ease.. Trails.

[image=http://members.shaw.ca/j-tetrault/clipboard02.jpg]

So far the closest I've been able to come is actually to make each particle a emitter and use particle combustion. However doing this results in long render times and doesn't yeild very pleasing results..

Any help, plugins, tips, tricks, ect?

Thanks!

 

I think that actually looks really cool. Did you have to animate each individual peice of debris/emitter?

 

Max 6 has "particle flow" which is awesome for this sort of thing.

 

Particle flow for Max 6... Since I don't have Max 6 that's probably not much help. Anything at all that's similar or possible in Max 4? I realise I'm probably reaching, but I figure it's worth a shot.

Thanks!

 

There are particle plugins. I found one a long time ago, but I don't remember where it was. It was on a tutorial with how to make the asteroid in the opening credits of Star Trek DS9. (Keeps looking)

 

Is there particla flow in max 5?
~Rory

 

no, particle flow was introduced in Max 6...

Darksteps...