Maya Fluid Effects

[AJ Infinity]

I'm right now looking at Maya Unlimited's awesome fluid effects. Anyway, I know its a little over my price range :D but I just like seeing how far Alias|Wavefront is going to be just like the real world.

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/products/maya/unlimited/fluideffects.shtml

[Joseph Duchesne]

*GROAN* whishs he had 2 grand :D . Guess I'll stick to meshwork:) ,Bryce and Amapi. *bursts out crying*

[macboy]

:wow: :wow: Those look sooo realistic. Too bad I'm only the whole price short of buying it ;)

[AJ Infinity]

Originally posted by Joseph Duchesne
*GROAN* whishs he had 2 grand :D . Guess I'll stick to meshwork:) ,Bryce and Amapi. *bursts out crying*

You can simulate fluids in Bryce by animating terrain and using metaballs for splashes.

[Joseph Duchesne]

I know. Bryce is -cool-. Did you see the Nuclear Nova logo protype I made in it?

[AJ Infinity]

Yup. That logo's pretty awesome. :cool:

[Joseph Duchesne]

I want to redo my logo in it to. You know you can do shifting desert sands using animated terrains to?

[AJ Infinity]

Oh wait. I'm thinking of the wrong logo. Which are you talking about (I didn't see it on your site).

For shifting sands, animate the terrain with the timeline in the Terrain Editor.

[macboy]

I never saw it. Do you still have it? :?:

[AJ Infinity]

WHOA! I just did some googling for Bryce water tutorials and I found like 15. :cool: Most are good.

[Joseph Duchesne]

*digs into the archives* Ahh:

www.staronesw.com/NN-Final.jpg
www.staronesw.com/NuclearNova2.jpg

Nice eh?

[macboy]

:wow: Wow JD those are awesome! :cool:

[Joseph Duchesne]

:D *bows* * looks as :cool: as he can*

Thanks. The only problem is the render time. ~14 hours on normal AA on my dads G4 733!:shock: Ouch I was trying to render it on my PM 7600/132 first though:lol: I set it going over night and woke up to find it like 5% done! I wonder why Jake didn't use it? maybe it was too flashy?

[AJ Infinity]

14 hrs. Whoa. How high did you AA? What were all your render settings. I usually render with premium fx AA.

Super cool render. (two thumbs up)

[Joseph Duchesne]

*Wishes he got 3 thumbs up:D then notices that AJ probably has only 2*
The world was in volumetrics(set in sky lab), the stars slowed it down and that's 10 volumetric spheres with their quality set on 75%. It took W-A-Y longer than I thought it would but it only took 2 hours to make. (1 hour makeing it and one hour waiting for the blasted preview to load on my 7600/132 :D )

[Carlos Camacho]

The Maywa water effects reminds me of the After-Effects plugin called Psunami (used in Waterworld and perhaps Titanic??) I was mostly awed by the cloud fly through. I've always had a dream of making a good short movie of a ship coming through the clouds and then slowly flying over a terrrain and landing.

Did you see Duality (spell?) A short Star Wars homage made with Electric Image. ALMOST looked like ILM did it.

I'd like to know how the performance of Maya is on the Mac compared with other platforms. In terms of handling huge models, complex animations, large textures, rendering and so on..

[Joseph Duchesne]

Read MacAddict:D they praise it as a god. Anyway Bryce can do neat clouds to for a fraction of the price.

[AJ Infinity]

Originally posted by Joseph Duchesne
*Wishes he got 3 thumbs up:D then notices that AJ probably has only 2*
The world was in volumetrics(set in sky lab), the stars slowed it down and that's 10 volumetric spheres with their quality set on 75%. It took W-A-Y longer than I thought it would but it only took 2 hours to make. (1 hour makeing it and one hour waiting for the blasted preview to load on my 7600/132 :D )


Nooo wonder. :D


I was mostly awed by the cloud fly through. I've always had a dream of making a good short movie of a ship coming through the clouds and then slowly flying over a terrrain and landing.


I can email you an old Bryce 4 movie/short called SpeedLaser.

[Mazilurik]

Originally posted by Camacho
Did you see Duality (spell?) A short Star Wars homage made with Electric Image. ALMOST looked like ILM did it.

For anyone who hasn't seen this, the website for the movie is http://www.crewoftwo.com/; besides the movie itself, the site contains some background information about the creation of the movie, including descriptions of how certain special effects were done. Very cool; fifteen years ago only a major film studio could have made something of this caliber, and now it can be done by two people and a home computer.