Learn how make a fire material 3D Studio Max. 3d studio max tutorials, fire material, fire, texture, explosion, exploding Fire Material Fire, fire, fire...nothing satisfies the 3D-loving soul quite like a beautiful fire. This is part one of a two tutorial series for creating a full-blown fire animation. In this tutorial, I will show you how to make the fire material.

]]>1Material Editor by pressing 'M' on the keyboard.

]]>2Sample Type in order to select the square shape. The square shape will make it easier to see what the fire will look like in the rendered scene.

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Under the Shader Basic Prameters, make sure that Blinn and Face Map are chosen.

]]>3Specular Level and Glossiness to '0.'

]]>4Diffuse slot and click on the Standard button and choose Gradient. Your cube should look like as though there is a blend of black to white moving from top to bottom in the material editor's view port. However, the colors need to change.

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]]>5Gradient Type should be Radial and the Noise amount can be raised to '1.0' with a size of '15'. The size number may change later and can be tweaked to better suite your scene. Choose Fractal as well.

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]]>6Opacity slot.

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]]>7Opacity material and change the three colors to Black, Grey, and White. Once completed select the Gradient button (while still in the Opacity material) and change it to a Mask. Keep the old map as a sub-map.

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]]>8Mask option, select another Gradient. This time make the three colors black, white, black. You can add Noise (Fractal, amount of one, and size of 15), although you can feel free to play with the numbers to produce more refined qualities in the fire.

This completes the creation of the fire material. The next step will be applying it. Go back and proceed to Fire Animation. ]]>