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How would you do this effect ?

Hi! I'm working on a music video and have a big problem: I don't know exactly how to realise my idea:D. I want to have a guy smoking a cigar. Then...

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by .:morpher:.

15-01-2004|09:45 PM

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Island in the Middle of the Ocean/Lake in the Middle of Land

Hey Everyone, First off, I'm still a newbie.... I am working on a scene where there is a house on an island in the middle of the ocean. The...

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by clebo99

06-01-2004|05:29 PM

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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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Problems with rendering particles

Hello, I have a problem.I'm a begginer when it comes to dynamics,but I have a problem. When i make particle object, set type to points or (any...

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by Sil-Valeor

26-01-2004|09:20 PM

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Bubble burst

anyone know a good way to simulate a bubble bursting. want to do it in slow mo too so the quality is important. the material that forms the bubble...

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by dirack

24-01-2004|11:22 PM

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explosion

I can't create an explosion! Help me!:mad: :bandit:

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by Pony

02-03-2004|03:16 AM

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need a transparent bg for my particles

Hi, I have created a scene with point particles (instanced with geometry) and I hardware render them with full image resolution, as tiff, and...

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by ragecgi

09-03-2004|08:24 PM

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Fire

Followed the ring of fire tutorial. My fine is globular and flickering like real flames. Anyone help? Can;t figure it out. Thanks.

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by ragecgi

13-03-2004|01:35 AM

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Fluid Effects

Well, this question might be very basic. :) I've created a 2D container, and i chose paint fluids tool to color the container. The thing is I...

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by kannan

09-04-2004|02:28 AM

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help on learning cinematic special effects

hello everyone! i've done work before in maya and am at a pretty decent level for the local crop of maya users in my school. i've added some...

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by deryk

14-04-2004|03:56 PM

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help on fluids

I need some help. I need to create a fluid effect, I have to make a fluid that falls in to a glass or cup and I dont know anything of fluids....

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by dirack

04-09-2004|08:03 PM

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water and heat haze

Hey all! Just wondering if anyone knew of a good tutorial for heat haze and also for creating a gushing flow of water. Thanks heaps.

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by ragecgi

26-09-2004|09:32 PM

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particle text

HI (genius)PPL from all over the world, I dono how to explain my problem but..i ll tell wat i was looking for....I m tyring to create a text " ...

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by graphik

05-04-2005|03:28 PM

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Bubble help

I'm creating an underwater shot sequence, and I have a submarine w/ particle emitters attached to each propeller, so that it leaves a small,...

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by ragecgi

26-09-2005|07:58 PM

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particle rotation

hi, i've got particles instanced with a piece of geometry. An expression control the rotation -and they totate nicel in x y and z. Unfortunately now...

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by farbtopf

30-10-2006|10:47 AM

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Mirroring hair setup

I have created a hair system for half a head and need to mirror it over to the other side. Is there any way of doing this. Cheers, Leon

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by leonlabyk

03-06-2007|09:03 AM

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The best way for creating lava lamp?

Hi all, i tried to create a lava lamp using blobby particles and applied some gravity, turbulance and uniform fields to it but doesn't look like the...

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by Andy William

08-11-2007|04:27 PM

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fluid texture collision

Does any one know if it is possible to make a fluid in a 2d fluid container interact with texture? What I want en mean by this is the following: I...

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by denkertje

19-03-2008|02:47 PM

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Smoke Rendering Error

I'm trying some simple smoke rendering and I'm getting the following error: Warning: Texture file Smoke doesn't exist, node file1 Any idea what...

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by elephantinc

08-01-2009|10:01 PM

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Floating Dollar Signs that Fade

I am a newbie. I got Maya 2009 for work and was asked to do what seems to be a simple animation: Dollar signs that float up from one source in a...

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by Dann

08-01-2009|09:13 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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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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Hopefully simple question regarding Fluids (Hard surface)

Hello all. I have an issue that has been kicking me around for about 2 weeks. If you have seen the demo from Duncan regarding the mixing of...

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by shamusoliver

08-12-2011|05:42 PM

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What would be the best way to get an eyeball to pop out of a head

Yes I know it sounds disgusting, actually the render looks disgusting too...which is just what I wanted. But I was wondering if any one could help...

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by Bubblegummonster

23-05-2011|05:49 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

Replies: 4