Glowing Particles
 

I was wondering how one could make glowing particles to manufacture a fairy dust effect. Any ideas?

depending on what kind of particle type you choose, you can raise the glow attribute of the material that is assigned.

DAM! hehe...

Mike beat me to the post:)

Well ive messed around with all that stuff but im looking more for the results found here whereas they are particles for matteing. http://www.artbeats.com/prod/product.php?pg=1&id=201.

I was trying to use this artists instructions but i found that they skip alot of steps http://www.goat.com/alias/particles.html#fairydust.

Any help would be appreciated.

Pixie effect
 

well i remmember a lecture by Alex, how to create a pixie effect with particles thought ..... i have attached a picture with large brush stroke: i'll be fast and straight explaining how can u achieve the effect:

goto pain effect window and get the desired paint i selected

glows-->pixie

basically we are going to create a brush effect then instance it
to a omni emitter attached to a curve flow animation

thats the idea that.....i have abt it...

after selecting the brush draw it at the origin of the grid(its a long story why to place it on the origin) render ur scene if it gives u desired effects else draw another stroke as desire or maybe with a different brush so create an omni emitter and create a curve using a CV tools fpr the path then select the stroke and then the emitter goto

Amimation -- > Animate --> attach to path --> _|attach

lower the rate and increase its speed

keyframe the rate of the emitter if u need a different effect

select the paint effect stroke and the emitter goto ---> Dynamics and instance it,,,,,,

Render it and see the result .....

enjoy instancing !

Great tip Mind-raper!

Another tip along those lines, would be to paint like 10 or so ""pixie-dust" images at around 128x128 in size, then use them as instanced sprites from an omni emitter with a little bit of glow (possibly even with a noise expression on the glow intensity) and attach that to your path or object:)

For a "pixie-rain-dust" style effect, you could do the above, only combine the idea with our SM rain tutorial.

Great tips all!

killing the dust !
 

and if u want that your pixie dust should disappear,......
then u should da expression that i have posted in the sticky expression thread: here's da link !

http://www.forums.simplymaya.com/sho...&threadid=5601

enjoy dusting,,! kekekehehe !

thanks
 

Hey thanks for all the help. But mind_raper wasnt sure if you got my private message but i was wondering if that was a preset brush you were talking about under glows-->pixie because i dont seem to have it if it is in maya 5.0 (rage feel free to answer also if you know). Thanks again for all the tips and I will get cracking on all the cool effects that they entail soon.

:) I think he was joking, as I've never seen it.

HOWEVER, it might be a new PFX brush that I havn't seen yet, so don't take my word for it:)

hah ah that was quick Rage
 

hahahahahah that was good.rage yeah he's right
well it really does not exist in Maya 4.5 either
i just meant

glows --->>pixie(mean't whatever effect suits you better)

for the above example i used starglow

Cool m8!