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Texture on Particle Instancer Objects

Hi All, I need help for maya particle instancer. I want to achieve a result like the picture on the left side which is poly cubes light up with...

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by Andy William

27-05-2008|06:44 AM

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killing particles

Hey all. I'm working a piece that involves water running from a sink faucet. I've reached a good point where I have the water emitting from the...

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by bendingiscool

18-08-2008|01:20 AM

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shooting spider webs

I need to come up with a way to shoot spider webs. My plan is to have liquid shoot towards a target. And the container ends with a web. Any...

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by daverave

19-03-2012|12:08 PM

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3D fluid problem?

hello all- I'm in quite a bind. I have created a 3D fluid effect smokering. and it looks so pretty. However, now i can't get any of my fields to...

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by gster123

26-07-2006|04:47 PM

Replies: 3

Emitting Particles From Fluids

I wanted to make a cloud with some fluid effects, and thought about emitting particlers from it to look like rain. Is this possible? I haven't had a...

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by AnthonyCg

07-05-2008|01:44 PM

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Realistic Rain

Trying to get some realistic rain here. This is what I have so far. I used particles with instanced shapes. The problem is that since the scene will...

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by ragecgi

07-05-2008|01:54 PM

Replies: 7

Maya fluid render prob

http://imageshack.us/a/img341/7176/imgqgr.jpg Why is the fluid smoke appearing in rectangles and squares? pls help :( Auto-resize is on...

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by fantastico

12-02-2014|08:55 PM

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i have a question (i hope this is the right forum of this)

i want to make a affect of a sheild that looks like a thick water/jello affect hehe(i dont know how to describe it)or like that stargate wormhole...

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by Calvin

10-12-2002|08:47 AM

Replies: 3

flaming text

i want to animate text too look like flames(blue if possibe) how do i get this affect ~TJ~

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by mumbojumbo_13

18-12-2002|02:35 AM

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Cloth animation

Helo, I suceeded to make a blanket drop over a table (object). Just like the bed tutorial. What I want to accomplice is to "pull" the blanket off...

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by Arce

28-01-2003|09:54 AM

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Maya Bifrost Aero Flame

I am Trying to create a flame using Bifrost Aero.When i render it,it looks blurry.I tried putting lower value in master voxel but still it gives...

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by ArenaAdajan

07-11-2020|04:33 AM

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how do you make an nparticle explosion?

Hi i have nparticle water filling a sphere. At a certain frame i have turned off the collide so the particles begin to escape. but for the life of me...

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by av24

25-04-2011|10:13 AM

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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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Tornado picking up trash?

Hi, Just saw the tornado tut and I it was quite easy to follow too. Now my question is how can I set up the scene so that the tornado will suck...

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by strobe7

05-02-2004|04:54 PM

Replies: 3

Urgent help in syflex

I am using Syflex to create the cloth of my character, and it´s urgent, cause it´s for the TV, and soon it will be on air. Well, that´s the problem:...

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by Shayder

10-11-2004|09:39 PM

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blobby surfaces inheriting texture color -TUTORIAL

Hi everyone! This is something te one or the other stumbled across, so I did some "research" and here is the answer. The question was "How can...

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by BadG3r

21-05-2007|11:04 PM

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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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Lumps in Milk?

Hey... I'm not sure wether or not this question has been asked before, but I couldn't really find much... I want to make a simple scene in...

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by mirek03

18-02-2008|12:29 PM

Replies: 7

Fluid ncache changes simulation

I have a fluids smoke simulation I'm quite happy with, but when I go to create a fluid ncache, it changes my simulation, and the same goes for batch...

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by bconrad1

26-09-2013|07:35 PM

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Using nCloth with nParticles

Hello, I am trying to create a simulation of falling leaves. I can apply nCloth to a poly plane, adjust the settings, and get a desired result, but...

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by Calvin

06-07-2021|01:49 AM

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instancing multiple geometry

Hi, when instancing geometry is there a way to use multiple geometry shapes on the same particleShape and if so how? This one has had me stumped...

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by BadG3r

14-11-2007|12:58 PM

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laser beam

Hey, I want to make a large laser beam hitting earth, and blowing up part of it. The explosion part I think I'm gonna be ok with, but I was wondering...

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by Edward256

02-01-2008|04:35 PM

Replies: 5

sprite troubles

Hey guys, I'm trying to create some smoke sprites in photoshop but am having trouble getting the alpha channel on them, so that when I apply them to...

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by mirek03

20-11-2007|08:46 AM

Replies: 5

Sprites going through floor

Hey guys, I am having problems with my sprites, well not specifically sprites but particle/geometry collisions in general. I have a scene where...

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by bendingiscool

22-12-2007|06:37 AM