I need some assistance

I wish to know how can i make a fiery effect similar to that of immolation. Im currently working on a project and im trying to make a 3D sun, i have the texture and i wanted to add a fiery effect but i dont know how to do it.

I thought of having a plane behind it but how can i make it that the fiery glow always faces the camera

My sun


The fiery glowy things from immolation

Billboarded plane.

Though I'd suggest doing it with particle emitters, so instead of just rotating or whatnot, it looks more dynamic. Particles are automatically billboarded too, so I don't need to explain anything. :D

Since I don't know what you're using, I'll suggest adding them in Magos' Model Editor, which contains tutorials on emitters. There are also more/better tuts floating around.

Im using 3ds Max 7, i have an mdx omporter but not and exporter so i cant transfer it to the magos.

Do u know how i can create a billboard plane in 3ds max instead?

Well, billboarding is a property you apply to bones in Warcraft, so I'd assume it's something similar in Max.

But I don't know for sure, since I'm a Milkshape man.

you can't create a billboarded plane for wc3 in 3ds max unless you have max 5 and the art tools. As far as I know...

Ok ive managed to work around that, but now ive come across another problem. Im using lens Effects>Ring to create a glowy effect, the problem is that i also added orbits, now for some reason the Mercury and Venus orbits multiply the ring effect:

Without orbits



With orbits



Without Mercury and Venus Orbits