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Sorry to break-in mind-raper, but I'm making this thread STICKY so it will always be at the top for everyone to learn from! Post your...

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by sherinnazar5

03-08-2021|09:29 PM

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Sticky: Free/Cheap Quality Matchmoving Software

Ok, it has been asked about enough to warrant me posting this so others interested in 3D Matchmoving may learn and benefit:) NOTE: This thread is...

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by honestdom

05-10-2011|02:32 PM

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Sticky: Visual Effects/Compositing/Dynamics and you.

I've been asked a number of times for reference, tips, tricks, and even how to make it in the industry, but if your looking for the holy grail of...

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by Cyan Tarek

05-10-2011|02:59 AM

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Resizing/rescaling ncloth with character to fit scene

Hello, I have a skinned and paint-weighted my character, and then I used ncloth for the character's outfit (independent of the skinned mesh)....

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by mayjormayham

11-02-2023|03:23 PM

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Using nCloth with nParticles

Hello, I am trying to create a simulation of falling leaves. I can apply nCloth to a poly plane, adjust the settings, and get a desired result, but...

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by Calvin

06-07-2021|01:49 AM

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XGen - hair will not follow guides anymore

Hey there, okay so ever since I've began using XGen there's this same problem and I can't find out why. Only thing I can tell, is that it...

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by Nekyo

03-02-2021|05:28 PM

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Assign Cached MASH spheres sperate shaders to

Hello I am currently working on a project where spheres created from MASH are bouncing around. Each sphere has it's own shader. I want to bake...

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by AverageRigger

20-11-2020|04:38 PM

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Maya Bifrost Aero Flame

I am Trying to create a flame using Bifrost Aero.When i render it,it looks blurry.I tried putting lower value in master voxel but still it gives...

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by ArenaAdajan

07-11-2020|04:33 AM

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particles in a "box"

hello. i need an advice how to make following set up: i need a fix amount of particles, which should randomly fly around in a specified volume and...

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by mickhah

27-10-2020|06:00 PM

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Mash attractor object not attracting

I'm using Maya 2020 and Mash Flight node to animate a school of fish. As in this tutorial by Ian Waters I've middlemouse dragged a locator to...

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by mio

07-08-2020|10:04 PM

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how to make this wobbly dynamics ?

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5x8uGmnztw/ :help: 1)i know How to do jiggle in MASH but want it to come out from surface of the sole like in this...

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by Nightcrawlerrr

13-07-2020|04:37 PM

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copy constraint

Hi, i made a pendular and added a nail constraint and gravity. I hit play and it moves ok. Then i duplicated it a several times with "duplicate...

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by vcastro

17-05-2020|02:55 PM

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Jet Flames in Maya?

Hello Simbly Maya ;) , I am working on a project using Maya 2011. There is this character with jetpacks. :help: :happy: So is there anyone who...

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by Acituanbus

27-01-2020|05:05 PM

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bifrost aero not showing in vray frame buffer

hello i am trying to render a smoke effect with bifrost aero. the smoke shows in render when voxel size is0.4 or more. but when i use 0.3 or less it...

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by fadyzkria

05-11-2019|11:13 AM

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MASH instancer scale

hello. i have a meadow and need to control y-scale of grass with a map. i can't figure out which MASH node can do it. best result i could achieve...

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by mickhah

07-10-2019|01:36 PM

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Maya nParticles export

Hello. How can I export the sphere particles that the maya nParticles uses as FBX? I don’t want to triangulate them and turn them into one mesh, I...

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by Cactus on Fire

12-09-2019|06:41 PM

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Huge rendering time with maya fluids and arnold (2018)

Hello! I'm working on a scene were a car drives on a dirty road, which creates a lot of smoke/dirt. I did it with maya fluids pretty fast, but...

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by bybyle

04-07-2019|05:44 AM

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How do i animate a character with nparticle soft body?

Hi im new here. I have been having this problem, i have a fully rigged character with face expressions, and i applied soft body in the nparticle...

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by Frost7

16-05-2019|06:55 AM

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maya mash strength

hello, i use maya 2018. i like to handle the y position by the offset node via texture but i allways get a soft transition between black and white....

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by klinggone

02-12-2018|10:20 PM

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Throwing wine glass on a surface

Hi, I'm having trouble of a glass breaking simulation. I want my wine glass to hit a wall and break after it hits the wall. It's more like someone...

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by Faker513

04-11-2018|01:18 PM

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Troubles with lattices on a dynamic car rig

Hello guys, So I tried to rig a car with dynamics, everything went well, but it seems like the latices for the wheels doesnt follow and so if I...

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by bybyle

05-10-2018|08:12 AM

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Alembic imported daz models won't work as colliders

I've been following a reallusion tutorial and animating characters in iclone and exporting as alembic into Maya. Everything is working fine except...

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by Shermon

16-07-2018|10:35 PM

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dangle ball on end of softbody Maya

Hey - I am trying to make a jester's hat. I need the hat to be floppy with little white balls at the end of each spikey bit. The hat is attached to...

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by twyeld

21-05-2018|11:32 AM

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Simulating a Double Pendulum

I am trying to simulate the motion of a double pendulum in maya 2018, but can't figure it out. I have tried both ncloth and using a gravity field,...

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by bmyonatan

01-03-2018|09:09 PM

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instancing emitters or secondary emission

hello. i'm wondering, if there is any way to instance particle emitters. i want to use curve flow so that created particles were replaced by...

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by mickhah

02-02-2018|04:55 PM

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Converting nParticles

Hi hi! I'm new to the forum and kinda new to Maya, and I have this issue that's been irking me for the past two days. I've been modeling this...

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by k1m1

07-01-2018|05:28 AM

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Chandelier Crystal Dynamics Simulation

I would like to find an efficient and stable way to simulate the crystals hanging from the chandelier. I did a search and found that i could do the...

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by LocSp

02-12-2017|01:16 PM

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Nucleus evaluation skipped, frame change too large

Hi,. My character's hair has no problem at the first frame. It follows the mesh when I rotate the head. But when I go to another frame and rotate...

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