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Particle Help !
I have a short animation that I created in Maya, the animatic can be viewed here:
http://www.silverscreencreations.com/images/animatic_short_xsmall.mov
The animatic was done in AE, it gives you a pretty good idea of the timing and movements. So now I have the character and enviroment modeled and animated in Maya with his trunk just lifting up in the air like it does in the animatic when he goes to spray the paint, but he doesn’t actually spray anything in maya because I don’t quite understand the particle system used in maya yet. So I was going to just mask off paint splats in AE and create the paint splats in AE but I was wondering if there was a way to make particles spray from his trunk onto the enviroment in AE? There are only 3 colors used blue, yellow and black…. Thanks for your help
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My quicktime isn’t seeing the codec you made the QT in. I assume you encode it on a PC? Maybe make it a cross platform codec like Sorenson.
The particles in Maya may be easier. If you parent an emitter to one of the bones in your elephants trunk, and set the emitter to directional. Then it shouldn’t be too hard. Just tweak the parameters to get the spray jet you want. If you are doing paint, set the particle type to ‘blobby(SW)’. Then set the blobby threshold till it clumps like paint. Then you can apply a material to the particles. The material make shiny so it looks like paint.
But if you want the particles to stick to the wall then set the particles collision properties. So select the wall and the particles and select ‘make collide’ . But then set the collide properties of the wall. So that when they hit it, they lose all their dynamic forces (meaning they stick where they hit). Or you can add a touch of gravity so it looks like they are smearing down the wall.
Chris Smith
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Hmmm wierd, I’m not sure why the video isn’t playing….
I’m pretty new to the whole Maya scene, so I think that it is too much for me right now, plus i’m on a deadline here and i’m running out of time andI heard that particles take much longer to render out of maya
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Trapcode Particular might help. By setting the physics environment to bounce and the collision event to stick you should be able to spray paint.
Here is a link to the tutorial on bounce.
https://www.trapcode.com/in_action/particular_bounce.html
The stick demo is at the end of the tutorial.
R
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Going by the trapcode website it looks like it would work so I just purchased Particular, now does anyone have any suggestions?
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