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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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The Art of Destruction - Production Workflows for Explosions

FXguide has posted a really interesting article with some cool clips about destruction simulations and how they blow stuff up at major VFX houses...

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by daverave

17-12-2011|03:04 PM

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Maya fluid as a light source?

I created a flame using maya fluids. I'd like to make it behave as a light source, so that it could influence the surrounding objects. Is there any...

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by LauriePriest

18-12-2013|05:14 PM

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Necklace simulation: animated character doesn't turn into passive rigid body

Hi! I have a necklace rig built up using pin constraints. If I hit play, it animates well. It even animates well if I only use a still .obj...

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by Etienne79

19-05-2014|05:41 PM

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time node

Hi everyone. I need to slow down particle motion for an animation, but I don't know how to achieve that effect. I found a thread on creative cow's...

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by radvfx

15-08-2011|11:49 PM

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growing vine effect

I need to create the effect of having what looks like a vine growing out of a character. It will then move along the ground go down under the ground...

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by ArtieLange

19-03-2008|10:01 PM

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Warning Messages

Anytime I create an active rigid body, I get warning message when I rewind playback. I know there's nothing wrong with my geo and setups etc. It's...

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by Perfecto

08-04-2011|06:47 PM

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Embed high poly object into low poly object

If i simulate a box with nCloth and deform it, can i then use that simulation/box to deform another object like a car model? Like embed the high...

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by Esperado

03-08-2017|09:41 PM

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nCloth problem

I'm trying a fairly simple thing (so I thought); drop a sphere onto a piece of cloth, which is constraint at it's outer edges.. Butg the sphere...

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by publicFunction

18-02-2009|05:29 PM

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MASH Falloff Bug?

Hello, I have used MASH to scatter grass across a plane in Maya 2016 Ext 2 and its been working great. However I now need to add additional...

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by CardboardBread

06-07-2017|08:57 AM

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particle render probs

hi greeting everyone, i try doing a particle effect in maya but after i done my particle i render out but in render view i can c nothing. i am...

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by keshask750i

15-03-2012|09:33 AM

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nHair location problem in render

Hi, I made hair to my character by drawing curves and making curves dynamic. Hair doesn't follow the mesh despite there are follicles, I don't know...

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by oklava

01-11-2017|01:56 PM

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Particle attraction/repulsion per object/vert

Hi all, I revieved a question from a member, and thought that it might help you all find more ways to achieve a shot: NOTE: names of the innocent...

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by ragecgi

20-01-2005|07:23 AM

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Large number of dynamic objects | Page: 1 2

Hello. I'm been a Maya newbie for a little over a year now :p , and the thing that has always given me the most pain is dynamics. So I've been...

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by cgwhiz

24-03-2009|09:22 AM

Replies: 15

Objects intersect after placement | Page: 1 2

Ok, this has only happened once or twice and I usually manually move the objects I have placed. I have multiple objects...active rigids, made a glass...

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by David

26-11-2011|03:20 AM

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Smoke

Hi people! I am working with a fluid emitter to create smoke. This is what I got after lots of testing to achieve the density and movement...

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by destello

06-09-2017|04:36 PM

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nParticle shading attributes

I must be losing it, as I can't figure this out. What kind of shading type or shader do you need for nParticles to respect the attributes in the...

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by stwert

22-06-2013|03:09 PM

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floating ncloth

I'm trying to create a table cloth for a scene using an ncloth. I've looked up several tutorials which all run through the basic set up (create a...

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by nov2011

20-03-2012|05:39 PM

Replies: 5

Create fog that can be interacted with

Hi guys, I've created some fog with a 3D fluid container. Given it a little wispy texture with the texture opacity setting. It looks nice and can be...

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by dre4mer

29-08-2014|11:09 PM

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Maya 2015 XGen doesn't open brush settings

Hi guys, I am currently working on the Tutorial "Creating a Pegasus in Maya with XGen"...

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by 3dArtist91

07-11-2014|10:27 AM

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Compositing Fire | Page: 1 2

Hi I have a bright studio scene lit with HDRi. I rendered flames on another render layer separetely to get dark lighting. I now want to...

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by honestdom

01-06-2012|01:57 PM

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Ground Dust Test

https://vimeo.com/81097022

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by NextDesign

01-01-2014|09:16 PM

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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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Creating sparks little tutorial

I created a little tutorial on making sparks in Maya using nparticles. Hope it helps some of you out. I wanted to render them in V-ray but so far I...

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by dre4mer

04-07-2012|03:39 PM

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Maya surface emitter to curve flow

Hi, I am trying to get some cubes to emit from a plane and then slowly move upwards for about 4 seconds before being affected by a curve flow that...

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by Chris Miller

14-04-2015|08:56 AM