Whoops! I moved your post to the wrong thread
Anyhoo, here was my reply:
Originally posted by ragecgi
This should get you part of the way there:
https://www.simplymaya.com/tutorial_links.mhtml
Find the tut link for jozvex and
check out his interparticle collisions tutorial.
(click on the center "MAYA TUTORIALS" text on his main page for the tuts)
Great guy, helped me out with this in the past a bunch
Israel "Izzy" Long
Motion and Title Design for Broadcast-Film-DS
izzylong.com