Ok! I found an "alternative" solution, I went in to place3Dtexture and changed the rotation there, which gave me the much wanted result. Thanks for the pointers!

Hi LauriePriest, thanks for your reply. How do I parent the texture transform nodes to my sphere? Is it somewhere under hypershade or?

gster123: I will try that, thanks!

honestdom: how do I change the shape of my voxels?

I've downloaded this awesome shader: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/shaders/c/wet-mushroom-shader-for-mental-ray-maya

and applied it to a sphere.

I also downloaded this plugin:...

I don't really know what happend. I changed the Dropoff Shape from -Y Gradient to Sphere and exported just this one frame and it looked as bad as ever. Then I gave up and started a batch render and...

I've been playing around with the different settings. And yeah I can get squares to become less prominent, but only at the cost of the smoke becoming smoother and at the cost of almost all the detail.

Ok, I see. I can't say that I understand what it is that is filling the voxels up.
This is the settings I've been running with:

Texture Type: Perlin Noise
Coordinate Method: Fixed

Dropoff...

Hi everybody.

I have a problem with some smoke/fog created with Maya fluid effects. It comes out looking well bad, jagged perhaps. Can anyone point me in the direction of getting it to look...