If you don’t need the alpha channel or high detail, JPEG is fine for distant textures in 3D scenes—just note the data loss can’t be recovered, unlike TIFF files. And if you need a smaller file size...

Hey hi, when rendering in maya for optimal quality and manageable file sizes, TIFF is generally considered the best choice among JPEG, TARGA, and TIFF formats. While TARGA files may offer high...

Use the UV set editor to go to the non default UV set. Select all polygons on that UV set, right click and go down the menu to UV Sets>'Copy UVs to UV Set' to send them to your default UV set. Do...

HOLY CRAP! I'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER THE INTERNET FOR THIS SOLUTION! THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!

Several months later ...

For the challenged there are some really fine fire effects (which duplicate the VCE effects) available at: http://www.wondertouch.com/proemitters10-12.asp

Thanks!

I was easily able (a few days) to replicate that VCE video in Boris R4 (which has 'nice fire') but it is going to take some time to learn Maya (especially with all the crashing).

If you...

I installed the XviD encoder (and MANY others). I can render to .avi and choose to compress using XviD, but it doesn't work :headbang:

If you read the help files carefully you will note that...

>> having problems following the Ring of Fire demo ...

The speed difference is because the other person's computer is slow, but you can adjust your frame rate.

See this post:...

Perhaps I should mention that the attachment is for Maya 2008 in case you have trouble loading it. I followed the tutorial EXACTLY and did not add anything, so hopefully it will be OK for older...

Here is the video (in .gif format). It was created like this:

ffmpeg -i Fire_Ring_256.avi -pix_fmt rgb24 Fire_Ring_256.gif
gifsicle -O3 -o Fire_Ring_256_O3.gif Fire_Ring_256.gif


The result...