Smaller Explosion

This is an explosion. lol.

basicly im going to make a nuclear explosion in 3ds max but first i thought id take 5 minutes to make a smaller one. this is a tutorial i found on onitz.net and is also on youtube and it takes about 2 minutes to make

you get a sphere, a particle array and an atmosphere effect using a sphereGizmo.

you add the sphere object to the particle array and make the particles come from the object instead of generated by the array.

then add a fire effect using the sphere gizmo, and time the fire effect with the dispersion of particles using auto key on the timeline and voila, basic 2 minute explosion using only 3 tools?

win!