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Introduction to Maya - Rendering in Arnold

This course will look at the fundamentals of rendering in Arnold. We'll go through the different light types available, cameras, shaders, Arnold's render settings and finally how to split an image into render passes (AOV's), before we then reassemble it i

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This is to ragecgi or anyother dynamic expert

I don't know if you remember the mouse trap board game. For class I got to model and animate the hole game using just dynamics. I'm having problem...

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by Dann

29-09-2004|07:56 PM

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NEWBYE Vs HYDRODYNAMIC

Hello to everyone!! I got to simulate a jet of dense fluid (such as synthetic oil) getting out from a plastic bottle neck... Should I use a fluid...

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by ragecgi

28-05-2003|04:13 PM

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Here is Full Review On NIGHT CRAWLER EFFECT from Xmen-2

hope u find this information usefull ...

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by mind_raper

22-05-2004|08:11 AM

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flak explosions

ok, ive seen some flak explosions -- they blow up like a normal explosions then bits of debris go flying out taking some of the cloud with them ...

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by ragecgi

16-08-2003|06:03 AM

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collisions with joe alter

Does anyone know the workflow to set up joealters hair so it will collide with your character. Many thanks, Leon

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by leonlabyk

01-03-2008|01:50 AM

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Stormy Ocean Creation...

i've noticed over several forums that alot of people are very interested in creating stormy ocean effects, (myself included). Now after pulling my...

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by thatdudeyoulove

25-03-2005|09:12 PM

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Help with concept: Roiling Fireball

I'm working on an animation project that consists of cavemen discovering fire. The characters are very stylized, so I don't want to fall back on a...

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by mirek03

20-02-2008|08:18 AM

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fire

does anybody know how I'd go about making fire in Maya? I was thinking it would have something to do with fluid effects and a 3d container

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by mhcannon

01-03-2005|02:38 AM

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Particle Instancing

i'm trying to instance a model as particles....i select the model, then the particles and go particles->instancer...but it doesnt replace the...

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by errethakbe

19-06-2005|02:21 AM

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New Upcoming Movie Planning

Okay, so the next one is coming, and this time were going to do the best we can with little to no budget. Last time it was really just messing...

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by Vectorman

14-01-2004|10:44 PM

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Smooth liquids

Hello all :) I was wondering if anyone knew how to get a smooth looking liquid out of blobby surfaces? Think maple syrup or honey. I'm not much...

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by dirack

04-09-2004|07:56 PM

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Multiple Emissions into Fluid Container

Hi, I have a 3D container with an emitter in it. I'm trying to get the emitter to emit its initial "burst" several times during a given period,...

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by dirack

15-09-2004|06:02 PM

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spring constraint wont bake

I have a rigid body simulation and I've managed to bake all simulations except for the spring constraint simulation. I keep getting an error...

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by andrehines

26-07-2004|05:50 PM

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metal outside an arm

hi sirs. i have an human arm, i have to do some emersion of metal liquid from the skin? someone have some guidelines?

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by 93freedom

21-03-2007|02:06 AM

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Softbody + fields = unhappy

as the title states I have a bit of a problem with a project exploding on me. I'm probably going about this backwards but...welcome to trial and...

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by Therverian

01-08-2007|01:42 AM

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Alex A. of Gnomon talks Gravity and Uniform fields...good to know!

Here's a small quote from the article released recently at his site: It's a good read for those confused about the difference between these 2...

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by ragecgi

13-04-2003|01:33 AM

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cloudy sky -> clear sky ?!

Hi @ll! Well, I never used fluiddynamics before and now I hav a problem: I wanna have a cloudy sky (no big deal. THX for the examples :cool: )...

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by mickna

04-08-2004|07:13 PM

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Light beams- anyone have any clues?

Hey, I'm a student and I'm tryin to learn maya for my animation course. I was hoping one of you could point me in the right direction for a tutorial...

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by Outlaw-Monk

18-10-2004|06:52 PM

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Constraining Challenge

Hi everyone, I've faced a problem in Maya Dynamics and Constraints. In my scene there is a grouped model with several children (as 3 groups ) which...

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by mortezarel

17-01-2013|08:06 PM

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Dynamic problem

Hi some grouped models are constrained (geometry & normal) on a wavy nurbs plane (create softbody and attach a turbulence field to its particles)....

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by daverave

09-01-2013|05:58 PM

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Real World Clothing Patterns W/ Maya

Hey, is it possible to use patterns by companies like Butterick, Simplicity, and McCall to make clothes for characters? I know there has to be a...

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by Russell

05-05-2004|09:26 PM

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WW1 battle field-recreation..

HI all, I have been given a job to do and I need to create a battle field from photos of the first world war. But it has to have some kind of solid...

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by ragecgi

12-08-2003|12:44 AM

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melting substance

am new to dynamics...an d i need to know how to melt a hard substance melt , some thing like a mech hand melting away.....this is something like...

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by Pony

23-03-2005|03:10 PM

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Emitting an object

What I need halp with is emitting a series of balls out an emitter. Could someone help me?

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by MKess007

15-02-2003|12:53 AM

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Natural phenomena

I think its really great at the end when u follow the Natural phenomena from the cryptic science laborotory but...it is needed to make project look...

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by ragecgi

20-02-2003|08:20 PM

Replies: 1