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# 2 29-03-2011 , 01:54 AM
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I hate to say it but if your totally new to Maya forget it. 7 clouds of smoke identical to a photograph lol I know people that would have problems with with this after using Maya for years.

Might as well stick up a picture of toy story 3 and say help, I need to do this in the next 10 minutes.

2 minutes of smoke at realistic resolution and 30fps is 3,600 frames I've just set up a simple fluid x7 with self shadowing and some half decent lighting and it would take about 33 days to finish rendering (quad processed i7 @ 3.8 ghz) and even that would not be what i'd call photo real pretty close but....

If you new to Maya and looking to replicate photrelistic smoke in a hurry i think you'll be in for a disappointment. If you just want crapy low rez smoke well this is doable.

Dave


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