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# 1 16-06-2003 , 09:49 PM
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Glowing Particles

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

# 2 16-06-2003 , 10:14 PM
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depending on what kind of particle type you choose, you can raise the glow attribute of the material that is assigned.

# 3 16-06-2003 , 10:32 PM
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DAM! hehe...

Mike beat me to the postuser added image


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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 !

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# 6 19-06-2003 , 03:41 PM
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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 objectuser added image

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

Great tips all!


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killing the dust !



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# 8 25-06-2003 , 01:28 AM
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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.


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# 9 27-06-2003 , 02:55 AM
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user added image 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 ituser added image


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# 10 28-06-2003 , 10:27 AM
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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


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# 11 28-06-2003 , 05:40 PM
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Cool m8!


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