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Random Instanced Geometry Problem

Hi everyone. I have a scene with a bunch of particles with animated instanced geometry on them. I instanced several copies of the geometry and had...

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by Calvin

02-03-2005|05:44 AM

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fire

does anybody know how I'd go about making fire in Maya? I was thinking it would have something to do with fluid effects and a 3d container

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by mhcannon

01-03-2005|02:38 AM

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vortex fields 'sucking everything into vortex'...

Hi everyone, I’ve got some particles swirling around in a Vortex field. It looks fine at the start but if I playback long enough, the particles...

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by lori_hunter

01-03-2005|01:21 AM

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Ocean Waves...

im new to dynamics and i recently learned how to create an ocean in a scene, however the project im working on requires me to have a wave build up...

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by ragecgi

17-02-2005|09:48 PM

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Instancing lights

I'm trying to instance a light onto some particles, the light has an opticalfx thing on it but it won't render at all, just a flare in the middle of...

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by Calvin

17-02-2005|02:34 AM

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Emit upon death

Hello all, I'm wondering how to make particles emit other particles when they die? Just can't figure it out, would be very appreciated for any help.....

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by PacManiac

03-02-2005|12:40 PM

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Render of particles with cloud shader.

Hi, I'm trying to add a cloud shader to particles so do a software render but i can't get it to work. These are the steps I did: Create...

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by siom

24-01-2005|01:52 PM

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Air Fields - > Softbodies

Hi all. --> I'm using version 6.0.1 I've gotten stuck in Maya again, not sure why but I can't seem to make this dynamics effect work, maybe you...

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by BilloBob

20-01-2005|08:54 PM

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Particle attraction/repulsion per object/vert

Hi all, I revieved a question from a member, and thought that it might help you all find more ways to achieve a shot: NOTE: names of the innocent...

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by ragecgi

20-01-2005|07:23 AM

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this is a question for RageCgi :) about heat distortion | Page: 1 2

I thought that you might know this. Do you know a way to create Realistic heat distortion? I know you can use a hardware rederer and render...

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by ragecgi

19-01-2005|06:05 AM

Replies: 25

render particles

hey ya! i`m kind of new in maya, i`m working on a personal proyect that includes particles but the problem is thath when i render the scene i...

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by mayakid14

18-01-2005|07:35 PM

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smoke image in maya 6.0

hi where is smoke image in maya 6.0 it's for the tutorials with particuliff you have the image in maya 4.0 please send me to...

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by zebigboss92

18-01-2005|10:52 AM

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Exhaust gas effect..

I am modeling a space craft and its partially animated but i want particle effects.. i have 3 emiters setup.. i want each one to blow exhaust gas...

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by ragecgi

06-01-2005|05:26 AM

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String

would it be possible to dynamically simulate something like a yoyo string? have a yoyo model at 1 end and a hand model at the other. then when the...

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by Nem

04-01-2005|08:59 PM

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hardware and software particle Incandescence

Hi all, anyone know where to find the Particle Incand Mapper node? I've looked in particle utilities but only found the particle sampler. I'm...

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by BobV

04-01-2005|04:02 AM

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Space Scene

Hey everyone! I am trying to make a space scene with a slow zoom into a planet through clouds and atmosphere and the sorts.. What is the best...

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by amitgicelter

16-12-2004|11:47 AM

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I Need Smoke...

I need a good way to make smoke like that of an 18-wheeler belching from its exhaust pipes. I tried using the missle trail tut they got at Highend3D...

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