Simulating a Disintegration Effect in Maya
In this exciting course, we will delve into the simulation of a disintegration effect using Maya's powerful nCloth particles and fluid dynamics tools. Software required: Maya 2015.
What you'll learn
In this exciting course, we will delve into the simulation of a disintegration effect using Maya's powerful nCloth particles and fluid dynamics tools. We will cover in detail the process of breaking an efficient mesh for disintegration purposes and later emitting the detailed secondary particles and fluid simulations. This course also covers a wide variety of tools and techniques along with MEL functions and expressions. By the end of this training, you will have a clear understanding of how to simulate a detailed disintegration effect. Software required: Maya 2015.
Table of contents
- Modifying Fluids 6m
- Finalizing Fluids 7m
- Adding Detail to Selection Set 6m
- Converting the Mesh to nCloth 9m
- Adding a Turbulence Field 10m
- Adding More Fields to Modify Simulations 9m
- Modifying Fields and Creating nCache 8m
- Creating Primary Particles 8m
- Modifying Primary Particles 8m
- Creating Secondary Particles 10m
- Adding MEL Expressions 10m
- Converting Particles to an Instance 8m
- Modifying the Instance with MEL 9m
- Simulating Fluids 11m
- Modifying Fluids 7m
- Finalizing Fluids 7m
About the author
Pankaj Malik is a Senior Instructor of VFX. He has seven years experience teaching and training students. He loves to explore the ocean of Maya commands and recently updated to the world of Digital Sculpting. He is a modeler, texturing, and lighting artist and a self taught dynamics artist. He is an Autodesk Certified Professional of Maya and 3ds Max and Adobe Certified Associate in Photoshop. He has made five short 3D commercial films and two VFX movies. He believes in great knowledge sharing a... more