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
complex objects.
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dust cloud
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There are lots of ways to do that.
The question you have to ask yourself is:
"Do you feel lucky?" hehe... sry, had to say that
Seriously tho, is your shot going to have a locked-off camera? or will the camera be moving?
This is important in case your due-date/deadline is approaching fast.
Otherwise, if you have more time, research the type of ground that your dust cloud would be emitting from.
Is it sand? Dirt? Grassy field? Asphalt?
If sand, dirt, or dirty asphalt, I would combine a raytraced software cloud, or even a hardware sprite sequence with a color and/or texture of a mix of light greys, tans, and browns.
Then layer over that a bit of hardware point, or multipoint particles with a rgbPP color of a sandy tan/brown to get the "particulate" type of grit that is in a dust cloud like that.
For reference, you can check out the dust clouds, and pyro movies at: www.artbeats.com
If you camera is NOT going to move at all, and you do not need too much detail, you can get away with a subtle cloud genrated in post on another layer combined with a depth pass of your scene to give more depth, and occlusion
Good luck!
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Check out the docs regarding that example, and you should have no problems, ....other than possibly rendertime depending on your resolution
There are TONS of attributes in a fluid, so directing you to a few specific attributes would be quite difficult at the moment for me as I'm not in front of Maya right now...
Good luck! and show us your progress & any tips when you get a chance!
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here's the clip
https://pilotltkettch.250free.com/ex1.avi
https://pilotltkettch.250free.com/ex2.avi
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Then I thought about it a little bit more
Some ideas:
*Particle instancing:
Paint a "cloud-type" shape in Photoshop, and map that onto a simple poly plane in Maya.
Use that cloud-object as your object to instance so when your object comes down for a landing, ramp up the emittion rate.
Make your emaitter an omni so it emits outwards by default.
Tweak from there.
Are you goiung for the toon look?
I ask as my next idea(s) are not meant for that kind of look.
Lemme know
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thanks for your suggestions
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