Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold
This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i
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Scirpt help Please
global proc nhGeometryInstancer ()
{
//Declare the variables
string $objSel[];
int $rateOfFire;
int $time;
int $dupFrame;
int $fps;
int $count;
$objSel = `ls -sl`;
$rateOfFire = 5;
$fps = 24;
$time = `currentTime -q`;
$dupFrame = $rateOfFire / $fps;
$count = 1;
if ($time = $dupFrame * $count);
{
instance $objSel;
$count ++;
}
}
As I am sure you can tell I am kinda new to mel so any help would rock.
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Without actually running the code, that's what stands out to me as being the most in trouble. Although there's certainly a number of things you could do to improve and tighten your code, to simply make it run that may be enough.
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Originally posted by kbrown
I'm not really sure what exactly are you trying to do here? Since you don't have any looping going on in your code I got to ask are you really trying to create a script or an expression? Can you try to explain your problem in bit more detail, please?
Sure. What I am trying to do is have a piece of geometry instance itself over time. That is where the "rate of fire" vaiable comes in. I would like to make something like a partcle generator but geometry instead. I know I could just use a partcile emiter and make it instance my geometry but I want it to be rigid bodies. If you could think of a better way to do this that would rock.
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I have actually done something like this before. I had a particle flow system which was moving soft-body driven geometry (blood cells in a vein). The softies were created and maintained (and removed) on the fly in the particle's creation/runtime expressions. It worked but I remember it being a very "hairy" setup
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