Introduction to Maya - Modeling Fundamentals Vol 2
This course will look in the fundamentals of modeling in Maya with an emphasis on creating good topology. It's aimed at people that have some modeling experience in Maya but are having trouble with
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ripple effect in Matrix Reloaded
see this pic..
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many ways
or particles use field like..gravity change attrib atten=1
try to keyframe the field's magnitude play wid some maxDistance attribute....
i'll try and will put up the results
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Play with that on your "ground" plane, and key it to "wave" outward when ya want.
Make sure your deforming geometry has enough spans/geometry to smoothly deform like that
Should be no problem, but the MAJOR trick to making that believable is using HI-RES textures, so they don't loose detail when they begin to stretch a little.
But if you position your cam well, and you don't wave-distort your geometry too much, it should look just the same
Good luck!
PS:
I was gonna make things MORE complicated, by saying that you you could setup a SDK between the relationship of your characters' -Y translation to the outward "ripple intensity" (or whatever it's called) of the WAVE deformer.
That way, anytime your character stoops down to start the wave, the wave deformer starts deformin the ground, and there ya go
...but then I didn't think of how the WAVE deformer dynamic placement would work... so, just ignore my ramblings
Anyhoo...
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the SDK thing can't be done 'cause this will be composited with real humans as models.if i am going to render this to 352x288,how much do u think the ground texture should be in resolution? is 1280x1024 a good value?
thnx again!!
i'll post up results l8r!
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i'll post picture of it as soon as possible!
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Can't wait to see how it turned out!
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when you say, "the people will be in Green room",
do you mean that the people will be on a green-screen stage?
...or just videotaped in a theater green-room?
Just wondering, because depending on your answer,
one way would be easy,
and one way will be slightly more difficult... but not too hard
Lemme know.
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thanx for ur help by the way! i really appreciate this!
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The easy way!You can simply do your ripple animation in Maya, and then just comp your green-footage over that, add shadows, then color grade and grain it to match
Nice and simple
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thanx ragecgi, by the way ur avatar is a pic of u? looks like a 3d character for kung fu! :-)
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