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adjusting rain and making thunder and lightning

I learned recently how to make rain in maya, but I don't know how to aim it at a window in my scene and make the rain roll down as it collides. I...

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by banksta

13-06-2007|02:35 PM

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Afterburner flame

Hi there, Can someone help me make an afterburner or propane torch flame similar to this one? I can't seem to get it quite right. If...

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by satch

16-03-2004|03:54 PM

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Air Fields - > Softbodies

Hi all. --> I'm using version 6.0.1 I've gotten stuck in Maya again, not sure why but I can't seem to make this dynamics effect work, maybe you...

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by BilloBob

20-01-2005|08:54 PM

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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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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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animate explosions

How do you keyframe attriubutes on and off? I want to animate an explosion similar to the scene in Starwars (but much simpler)where the pod racer...

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by ragecgi

14-12-2002|05:22 AM

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Animating Hair

I have a hair mesh that I imported into Maya using the Trinity for Maya plugin, and I want to animate it blowing in the wind. I have heard that...

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by NextDesign

20-09-2004|12:18 AM

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animating hair prob

I am animating some characters at the moment but the hair is giving me trouble as always. I have set up the animation and when I just play it back...

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by leonlabyk

17-02-2008|08:03 PM

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animating ncloth along path

Hi everyone, Does anyone here know how to animate a flying cloth along motion path? I want to create something like this: Flying cloth test -...

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by daverave

01-06-2012|10:15 AM

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Animating Paint Effects

Hi, This too is my last semester's project,...part of it anyway. I used Paint Effects and animated the curves in the Attribute Editor and when I...

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by ragecgi

23-10-2002|12:17 AM

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animating shader

How do you set the keyframes for different shaders texture?

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by strykernet

13-12-2002|05:55 PM

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Animation with fire

I've been trying to animate fire, but can only seem to get still images of it with the regular rendering stuff. As most of you know, when you take an...

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by mtmckinley

07-10-2002|10:23 PM

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anwar

how can i start this animation career i am new to this field and i choose VFX in maya.

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by publicFunction

01-01-2007|06:21 PM

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anyone know hair?

So I'm just trying to figure out Maya's hair systems. What I'm trying should be easy, but I can't get it right. I need to create a steel cable...

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by Dann

19-09-2008|03:34 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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applying burnpaper to an object?

Hi there, I have a polygon shape which I would like to apply the burnpaper effect to but don't really know where to start. I thought if I deleted...

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by ragecgi

28-07-2008|03:05 AM

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Archetype movie effect

Hi all, Very new here and to Maya in general. I'm trying to improve on my skills and recreate the funnel transition effect they used in Aaron...

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by NextDesign

02-04-2012|05:17 AM

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Are my models too complex for dynamics?

Got another problem once again. :D I'm modelling a set of block with letters on them for a flash movie. So instead of using texturing I modelled...

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by frippz

07-04-2005|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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Atom Project. <Need Dynamics Help> | Page: 1 2

I am building a model for an atom. I want to show the atom of a hydrogen in which electron is revolving around the nucleus. as electron revolves it...

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by bilalbajwa2336

26-05-2008|01:06 AM

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Attracting Dynamic Curve Sets

Hi All, I'm trying to explore self-organising nodes/networks and I've been working with maya dynamic curves as part of that investigation. So...

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by Sgt_BigZ

14-11-2012|01:40 PM

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Moved: Auto dirting

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Bad render with Instanced Particles

Hi, I created a snapshot sequence of an animation then referenced it in a particle system as an instance. It's all working fine with the exception...

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by CyberGolem

27-09-2013|05:03 AM

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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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Balloons?

Hi all, Has anybody got a clue as to how I would go about animating some balloons using dynamics? Thx, James

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by ragecgi

02-09-2003|04:18 PM