Explosion!

Right, so I was worried that explosions would be very hard to create. I need an explosion when the rocket hits the X-Wing so I was looking for some tutorials in Youtube and I found this one particularly useful: http //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDGUaw0XrDg.


In this video, the person that made it show how to create an explosion using ATMOSPHERIC APPARATUS (SPHERE GIZMO) to create the fire explosion (which comes integrated with 3ds Max) and how to create the debris from the explosion using the PARTICLE SYSTEM P-ARRAY.


Just using those two things and changing some of the settings from both tools I managed to create an explosion that looks quite decent in my opinion.