Jesse Pitela has released a tutorial for Phoenix FD in 3DS Max demonstrating how to create a large scale water simulation of an emergency airplane water landing including all of the splash, foam, and mist parameters, setting up an infinite ocean, the ocean shader, lighting, rendering and finally post production using After Effects. Watch it on Vimeo.
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Cool. Northwest Airlines doesn’t exist anymore, but still cool. 🙂
That’s probably the reason they did the tutorial with that airline, so they don’t get sued!
Delta owns anything to do with Northwest Airlines after the merger. Though I doubt they would sue for something like this, unless it was used for TV or movie they might require some permissions granted.
Nothing breaks? 🙂
..seems like usually the fuselage splits just behind the wings (avoid those seats!) and no flex in the wings, but we all know that’s not the point. Nice to see an in-depth Phoenix tutorial.