Complex UV Layout in Maya
Over the last couple of years UV layout in Maya has changed for the better. In this course we're going to be taking a look at some of those changes as we UV map an entire character
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how to?: make a venom style suit
anyone know the way/a tutorial/whatever to make Venom style suits?
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from a normal body
to this pic
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(ala: the Wolverene to Mystique X-men "rotating-kick" transition?)
(or the X-men2 "tent" scene... whichever makes you drool more)
1. You could simply just transition the between the 2 shots in post.
2. You could even go as complicated as multiple passes, particle "burn-away" type of transitions in Maya, lots of stuff.
List what questions bug you the most about this, and I'll try to answer them as best I can
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the effect i aim for is not just a transition, it has to look like the bodysuit just "launched threads" from the belt and shoes and then expands spiraling and encircling the body, weaving itself over it, kinda simbiotic venom suit of the comic but in a more ordered fashion (which makes it simpler i hope...).
Now i tought more about it... I was thinking of making it with a subd body with a layered shader with a skin shader lower layer and a black rubber shader on top transparency contolled by ramps. and on other compositing layer make some cilynders (each one for the body and limbs) get tight(with lots of turns) spirals from them, deleting the cylinders and then apply a black oil brush to the spirals and animate the covering of the curve over time, and animating the curve itself with a ball deformer whose movement is timed as the ramps of the body with the double shader...
(there was a mel to obtain spring shaped spirals?
and to obtain them from the geometry you have? )
but that is just theory... and i will be glad to hear theres a better/simpler way to make it with particles
(have to see x-man again, forgot the transitions of mistic to wolverine...)
I remember Rondador nocturno (nigtstalker?) "bamfs" where cool, how where they done?
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To answer that is a LOT more elaborate than I would be able to post here right now, but Nem pretty much got the jist of it.
The idea is that you can use an animated alpha map to "fade-away" your clothing/objects, and the cool part about that is that you can link a particle emitters' rate/color/whatever to that alpha.
So, when the alpha starts "wiping" your color channels away, you can tell a surface emitter to emit using the shape and speed of your alpha.
Alex A. of Gnomon has a free tutorial covering this idea when he talks about Gravity and Uniform fields at his site.
Check out the SIMPLYMAYA tutorial links database for the link to Gnomon, then find thier free section for the article/tut.
It is about making a jar "blown-away" by wind, but the idea is the same.
Lemme know if that leads you down the right path
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problem is: i made the spiral and conformed it to the leg with a latice, but i dont seem to be able to duplicate the curve mantaining the link with the latice (to be able to scale it to -1 to make another tread with the same shape go in the opposite direction) i tried connecting it again to the lattice deformation group, but as the duplicated curve was alrready deformed on its history it gives a twisted double deformed spiral...
also rage i may be retarded and dont seem to be able to find the tutorial youre speaking of on gnomon, could you plz post the link?
on a third note: when i batch render it does it but doesnt uses omre than a 2% of the pc´s power (taking a frigging lot of time to do it) anybody knows why and how to fix it?
tnx