Corona Virus - Bubble Particle

[Anonymous]

So I have to Remodel this Picture (see Attachements). But I have no idea how to create this bubble structure!

I got a recommendation to use TyFlow but I don't see how this fixes my problem because there aren't any tutorials out there that have any decent similarity with my project.

My thoughts were on a particle system but i also can't get this to work!

Thanks in advance!

The picture is from the Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSnSo9kYlH4

[dominique.bouthillette · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Thanks for the post!

You could absolutely use TyFlow to make a structure like this, but if you're more familiar with PFlow (Particle Flow), I would say you could also make something similar natively in 3ds Max.

For something like this, there are many ways to create the overall shape. I would probably start with a Sphere and then have particles that align to/emit from the surface. This way to can control what shapes are emitted from the Sphere's surface, in addition to their quantity. 

For the strands coming off of the Sphere, you could always model the structure manually, or you might use primitive objects (like spheres) for the basic shape and then coat it with a Blobmesh for the more organic structure. -- You could then convert this to an actual mesh to use as an instanced particle across the 'virus' surface.

I've created a very quick example scene of what a simple virus-like structure might look like using Particle Flow and added the MAX file for you to dissect. So I hope it can help! 😊