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18. Advanced VFX Pipeline Effects: 3D Particle Systems

Wallace Jackson

(1)Lompoc, California, USA

Now that you have an understanding of the fundamental Fusion 8 VFX 2D and 3D features, it is time to get into some more advanced 3D effects topics, before I end the book with a chapter discussing how your VFX content can be published across popular devices. Some of the most powerful tools in both 2D and 3D VFX are particle systems, which allow you to control thousands of individual objects acting in concert together to create special effects. Particle systems are powerful as well as advanced, and often involve several areas of physics, which we will cover in Chapter ...

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