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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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deleting Nparticles after cashing simulation

Hey guys is there a way to delete an individual Nparticle from the Nparticle system, but after cashing off dynamic simulation? in my case i love...

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by berndr

08-02-2011|02:04 AM

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Instanced objects with gravity

I'm trying to make an emitter that emits rocks and pile up .I have an instanced object and I applied gravity to it with the dynamics on and made it...

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by daverave

16-01-2011|07:16 PM

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radiusPP Help!!!!

Ok I have a cube and I particle instanced it to an emiiter now I want the cube to emit in difffrtent sizes, I have searhed everywhere and I'm doing...

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by oiver55

16-01-2011|12:03 PM

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Problem solving many dynamic objects in a pile?

We are having problems with 400 low poly boxes (50 faces each) as rigid bodies falling onto a floor object (passive rigid body) to pile up on top of...

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by daverave

14-01-2011|07:26 PM

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Clouds flickering - need help on CG Short

We've been using a geometry solution to making our Heavenly clouds for our short film but we're having some flickering problems and Id love to solve...

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by honestdom

07-01-2011|05:46 PM

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Importing Renders to AE

So I have all my renders from Maya ready to go into After Effects so I can start my composite, only problem is, when I try to import the sequences I...

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by Ozgalis

08-12-2010|09:56 PM

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Stepping effect in fluid

Hi, I've been simulating a dynamic fluid and at low resolutions it looks ok. But when I playback at higher grid resolutions I start to see the...

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by gubar

03-12-2010|10:42 PM

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friction burn

So I am trying to make a friction burn effect as a meteor enters the atmosphere but I can't figure out quite how to approach it. I have tried...

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by _afro_man_

17-10-2010|05:31 AM

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Elasticity of a polygon

i want to make a solid soft hemi-spherical body on a horizontal plane , so that when i turn the plane 90 degrees vertical , i need to see the body...

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by Worldian

11-10-2010|10:21 PM

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Penetration of rigid bodies

I'm having trouble with rigid bodies penetrating each other...specifically the active bodies penetrating my ground plane which is passive body. I...

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by G-Man

22-08-2010|10:29 PM

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I'm not sure this belongs in this thread

I want to make an animated Time Turner from the Harry potter series. I'm fairly confident I can model it, i'm just not sure how I would go about...

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by gster123

04-08-2010|06:47 PM

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making rigged character passive rigid body?

I was wondering if I would be able to take a character that I have rigged, skinned, and painted weights to, into a passive rigid body? I want to be...

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by Rhetoric Camel

19-07-2010|09:23 PM

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Passive/Active Rigid Bodies ...

Can an objects Passive Rigid Body attribute be changed to Active or the course of an animation sequence. I have a push pin holding a cloth to a wall...

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by gster123

14-07-2010|04:00 PM

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Apache Animation

I need for knack (Apache) Who could explain to me how to make: Adding heat distortion and exhaust smoke? Large a mercy has those which go answers...

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by NextDesign

02-07-2010|05:30 AM

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nCloth is too jumpy or floating (no gravity...)

hey guys! I am trying too rigg a dress with nCloth but there is one big (besides many others :) ) problem: the dress seems to float around the...

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by Falott

24-06-2010|07:17 PM

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scaling particle efects

I have a particle effect that I work some time on for a scene but when I imported it into my scene I found its way to small it needs to be about 15...

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by MaddogZ

13-06-2010|05:01 PM

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particle to bone animation

ahoi everybody! this is just a question about if my intended goal is even possible. of course if anyone has some thoughts how to achive it - I´d...

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by Falott

19-05-2010|07:40 AM

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fire and fluid name.

Should I give it a background after doing green screen.Is it possible to give it green screen.

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by puneet chopra

04-05-2010|10:11 AM

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Flame in streetlamp

Hey guys, I'm somewhat new to maya and I'm currently working on a small park scene. The basic idea is a streetlamp with a burning flame in the top...

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by bendingiscool

28-12-2009|10:41 AM

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ncloth batch render

Hello all. Been awhile. Running into something and hoping anyone might know where to look. I have an ncloth simulation setup that seems fine and...

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by NextDesign

24-12-2009|05:12 PM

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breath in cold air

hi, I have a project for class involving cold weather, and i wanted my character to have his breath showing for the close up scene. the rest would be...

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by stwert

11-12-2009|05:54 PM

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Bake soft body as geometry

Hey, got a dynamics for modelling question. I wanted to use a soft body to quickly model a rock. I created a sphere, made it a soft body, applied a...

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by stwert

12-11-2009|05:37 PM

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PaintEffects Vine growth question...

Heya's, Stumbled onto an older thread in this forum from awhile ago that was similar to my own question. Had an awesome response, so here goes. ...

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