Krakatoa Tutorials

Introductory Tutorials

• Basic Particle Rendering
  • Basic Demo File
• Saving Particles to Disk
• Matte Objects and Shadows
• Casting Shadows On Geometry
• High Particle Counts
• Using Krakatoa With Deadline

Krakatoa 1.6.0 Specific

• Single Frame Constant Motion Animation Using PRT Loader and MagmaFlow
• Using MagmaFlow Quaternion Operators
• Deforming Particle Orientation
• Using MagmaFlow Surface Operators

Krakatoa 1.5.0 and higher

• Introduction To MagmaFlow
• Practical Examples Of PRT Loader And MagmaFlow In Visual Effects Production
• Controlling Particle Density and Color By Age Using MagmaFlow
• Passing Data Between KCMs and PFlow Box #3 DataOps
• Using The MagmaFlow Index Channel
• Rendering A ZDepth Pass Using MagmaFlow
• Additive Rendering ZDepth Balance
• Creating Thick Smoke Using Particle Flow, Mesher and PRT Volume
• Using PRT Loader Birth and Update Operators in Particle Flow
• Mixing Additive and Volumetric Shading
• Transparent Matte Objects And Multiple Layers Saving
• Image Plane Dissolve Example
• Clouds Modeling Workflow

Krakatoa 1.1.2 and higher

• Partitioning Existing File Sequences or Vertices using High-Frequency Noise

Krakatoa 1.1.0 and higher

• Using the Krakatoa Geometry Test Operator
• Fading Off Particle Density By Age
• Particle Color By Speed Using Dataflow
• Particle Color By Speed Using MAXScript
• Camera Mapping Particles Using Dataflow and MAXScript incl. Animated Map Support

Obsolete Tutorials