I'm new to Maya and this forum. I'm using Maya 6.5. I have animated a ship moving through the ocean. I've created the smoke, ocean, clouds and skybox. I still have some problems.

1. I've created a wake emitter and texture and parented them to the ship. The wake doesn't show up. I've fiddled with the neg (down) and pos (up) but still no texture. Any ideas?

2. I found a .mel on the internet (twemitfromocean.mel) that will emit particles to create ocean foam. It's loaded OK just the particles aren't being shown when I animate the scene. Any ideas on this?

3. How do I go about placing foam emitters around the ship? Do I parent them to say the bow? Do I create a fluid container (off camera) and via Dynamic Relationship link the foam emitters to it? If so what texture, etc do I use to create foam?

Any answers or just pointing me to a relevant tutorial would be helpful.

Mike3121