Tyflow Basics - Beginner To Knowledgeable

Learn tyFlow from the inside out and how to understand it

What you'll learn

Learn how to use tyFlow and understand how it works as a particle system

Learn how to create you own awesome particle animations using 3ds Max and tyFlow

We will cover many of tyFlows Operators and learn by doing, understand parameters and create particle animations

This course tries to create true understanding versus typical follow along and copy me doing this style teaching

Requirements

No real skills required other than a basic understanding of 3ds Max and having access to a copy of 3ds Max with tyFlow installed.

Description

This course is about learning tyFLow and assumes no previous experience.  I plan to update it with more Operators over time!A lot of courses take a watch me do and repeat process, and that works for many learners and teachers alike.I wanted to do more of a learn the actual basics and what operators actually do, with the hope that, this teaching style would create more understanding and allow students to take their own ideas and turn them into stunning tyFlow animations. During this course we will start at the beginning, explain the tyFlow process, then we will go over critical operators and how to use them. During the course we will create valid and unique tyFlow particle system which will help us to fully understand the tyFlow process. The idea behind this course is to get students proficient in tyFlow, so they can take their own ideas and turn them into working particle animations. Will will cover a lot of information in the course and it is designed to take a student from a beginner intro level to an intermediate proficient at the tyFlow process level, and able to fully work with tyFLow and understand it. I hope that during this course, we will have some fun together and take our particles to the next level.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Intro

Lecture 2 All the tyFlow Operators as of version 1.17

Lecture 3 The tyFlow Process Part 01

Lecture 4 The tyFlow Process Part 02

Lecture 5 The tyFlow Process Part 03

Lecture 6 Create a Full tyFlow Particle Animation Together

Lecture 7 Create a 2nd Full Flow - Virus Growth Animation

Lecture 8 Create a Third Flow Together - PhysX Animation

Section 2: tyFlow Birth Operators

Lecture 9 The Birth Operator

Lecture 10 The Birth Burst Operator

Lecture 11 The Birth Flow Operator

Lecture 12 The Birth Fluid Operator

Lecture 13 The Birth Forest Pack Operator

Lecture 14 The Birth Intersections Operator

Lecture 15 The Birth PRT Operator

Lecture 16 The Birth Object Operator

Lecture 17 The Birth Paint Operator

Lecture 18 The Birth Skeleton Operator

Lecture 19 The Birth Spline Operator

Lecture 20 The Birth Surface Operator

Lecture 21 The Birth Voxels Operator

Section 3: Intro to tyFlow and Forces

Lecture 22 Intro to tyFlow and Forces - Wind Spacewarp & TyFlow Internal Forces

Lecture 23 3ds Max Space Warps - Push and Motor Usage with tyFlow

Lecture 24 tyFlow Vortex Helper Explained - Vortex Usage with tyFlow

Lecture 25 3ds Max Space Warps - Drag Usage with tyFlow

Section 4: Understanding Noise Usage in tyFlow

Lecture 26 Quick Look at the Noise Rollout & Fracture Results

Lecture 27 The Noise Rollout - Usage within a Particle Flow

Lecture 28 Vary Noise over Time (Example Random Particle Speed using Noise)

Section 5: Important Concepts to Understand

Lecture 29 A: Particle Age / Frames / Event Age

Lecture 30 B: Continuous versus On Event Entry

Lecture 31 C: Time Step Setting - How it affects particle animation

Lecture 32 D: Particle Relationships (Parent / Child / Sibling)

Lecture 33 E: 3D Speak (Terminology)

Lecture 34 F: Understanding Neighbors usage with Property Test

Lecture 35 The Transformation Matrix (TM)

Section 6: Quick Overview of the Standard Operators

Lecture 36 Quick Intro to Standard Operator Section

Lecture 37 Common across Standard Operators "Interpolation" Explained

Lecture 38 Common across Standard Operators "Seed" & "Seed by Time" Explained"

Lecture 39 Std Op - Position Icon

Lecture 40 Std Op - Position Object

Lecture 41 Std Op - Speed

Lecture 42 Std Op - Stop

Lecture 43 Std Op - Spin

Lecture 44 Std Op - Scale

Lecture 45 Std Op - Rotation

Lecture 46 Std Op - Slow

Lecture 47 Std Op - Spread

Lecture 48 Std Op - Path Follow

Lecture 49 Std Op - Particle Groups

Lecture 50 Std Op - Cluster and Cluster Force

Section 7: Condition Operators - How to Change Particle Behavior Based on Tests

Lecture 51 Intro to the Condition Operators Section

Lecture 52 The Collision Operator

Lecture 53 Find Target Operator

Lecture 54 Object Test Operator

Lecture 55 Property Test Operator

Lecture 56 Select Operator

Lecture 57 Split Operator

Lecture 58 Send Out Operator

Lecture 59 Surface Test Operator

Lecture 60 Time test Operator

Section 8: The Shape Operators

Lecture 61 The Shape Operator

Lecture 62 Element Fracture Operator

Lecture 63 Face Fracture Operator

Lecture 64 Shell Operator

Section 9: The Display Operators

Lecture 65 Camera Cull Operator

Lecture 66 Display Operator

Lecture 67 Display Data Operator

Section 10: Material Operators

Lecture 68 Material ID Operator

Section 11: PhysX Operators

Lecture 69 PhysX Shape Operator

Lecture 70 PhysX Binds Operator

Lecture 71 PhysX Collision Operator

Section 12: Data Operators

Lecture 72 Custom Properties Operator

3ds Max users who want to create cool particle animations using tyFlow withing 3ds Max and actually understand how to use tyFlow to create your own stunning particle animations