tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67327218707703142882024-03-13T13:48:43.695-07:00Pol 3Dpol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-73658629851688017872011-06-29T01:50:00.001-07:002011-06-29T01:50:28.338-07:00Car Exploding in Max<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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-Adding a Gravity force, Pbomb force, and a UDynaFlect Deflector for the particles<br />
-Adding a SphereGizmo Atmospheric Apparatus and Fire Effect for the explosion.</div></div></div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-19822822014456806062011-06-29T00:26:00.000-07:002011-06-29T00:26:12.809-07:00THE L_GLASS SHADER FOR ALIAS MAYA 7<div style="font-size: 12px;">The l_glass shader is a shader which is no longer in development, and has little written resources about it. Yet to date it is still one the most accurate and widely used mental ray shaders for glass. This material was built off of mental ray's built-in Dielectric shader node, but has many more features, and flat-out just looks better.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">This tutorial was built using l_glass in Alias Maya 7, but should also work with Alias Maya 6.5 and Autodesk Maya 8. The l_glass shader can also be used in XSI, yet the workflow will be different.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">You will need a stable l_glass shader for tutorial. The version I am using is Version 1.2. Get it from our <a href="http://www.3dmayatutorials.com/resources.htm" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Resources</a> section.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">There are two methods to making realistic glasses filled with liquid using the l_glass shader.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> 1) Create the glass with the l_glass shader and fill it with a Maya Fluid. (More control, necessary for moving liquid animation)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> 2) Create the glass with the l_glass shader and assign a different level of refraction to the liquid-filled part. (Easier yet still realistic, can be done without an Unlimited license)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Don't get scared away by some of these big words. For those of you who know what I'm talking about, we're going to use the second strategy in this tutorial. Let's get started.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><h2 style="color: #2070b0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; text-transform: uppercase;">MODELING:</h2><div style="font-size: 12px;">I'm not going to go too much into modeling because I'm sure everyone has a different glass shape they want to use. Now's the time to make that decision. You need to decide:</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">- What shape glass?<br />
- What liquid?<br />
- How full is the glass?</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">For the sake of this tutorial, I'm going to be creating a rounded wine glass that's two-thirds filled with white wine. Find some visual reference and start to make this glass. NURBS of course is preferred for any surface as smooth and simple as a glass.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Switch to your front viewport and make half of a glass using a single curve. Make sure to snap the beginning and end control vertices to the y-axis. Keep the wall of the glass fairly thin, like a normal glass should be.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>First rough outline.</center></td><td><center>Finished curve.</center></td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Okay, mine's not perfect, and the rounded shape of it would make drinking from it really inconvenient, but it's the l_glass shader that we're worrying about. If you revolve your shape around the y-axis (the default axis), you should end up with a decent glass. Pick revolve from the menu ("Surfaces, Revolve") and admire your results.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>Unrevolved.</center></td><td><center>Revolved wireframe.</center></td></tr>
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</span><h2 style="color: #2070b0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; text-transform: uppercase;">DETACHING & LOFTING:</h2><div style="font-size: 12px;">There is only one detach that needs to be done, but it's a fairly important one. Find the isoparm on the inside of the glass wall (make sure it's inside!) that you want your liquid to go up to. It's a lot easier to find the inside isoparms if smooth shading or x-ray is the viewing mode. Once you have it selected, go to the Modeling Menu, then select from the top "Edit NURBS/Detach Surfaces". Now you can see that we have two separate pieces of geometry.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>Undetached.</center></td><td><center>Detached. The top piece is selected.</center></td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">You need to do a loft. This loft is to create the top surface of the wine. In case you never took high school physics, the surface of all liquids have a slight dip to them, centered at the furthest point from all touching surfaces. We can simulate this tiny dip with a lofted surface.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">First you should hide your outer glass. That's only going to get in the way. The keyboard shortcut for Hide is Ctrl+H, and you can re-show something by selecting it in the outliner and keying Shift+H. Now that you can only see your inner glass, select the uppermost isoparm ("Right-click the surface/Isoparms" to display isoparms). Now duplicate this surface curve ("Edit Curves/Duplicate Surface Curves"), and the duplicate the new curve (Ctrl+D) two more times. By the end you should see three duplicated curves in your outliner, all exactly the same.</div><center style="font-size: 12px;"><table class="adsense" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; width: 724px;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table></center><div style="font-size: 12px;">Now it's time to make your loft. The first curve is perfect where it is, but the second and third curves need to be resized. Make sure you center the pivots on all three curves ("Modify, Center Pivot"), and then scale the second curve to about 0.85 for all three dimensions, and scale the third curve to 0.001 for all three dimensions. This can be done in the channel box or the attribute editor. The reason that the third curve's scale is set to 0.001 is because we don't want to be able to see the hole inside of it.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Now select these surfaces in order in the outliner, from 1-3, holding shift. Now loft! ("Surfaces, Loft")</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>All of the duplicate curves created.</center></td><td><center>Lofted, from outside to inside.</center></td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Of course there's no dip in the surface yet, we haven't moved any of the curves downwards. But because there is still history on the loft, we can move those curves now and still have it affect our loft.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Fortunately, moving these curves does not have to be an exact art. You COULD research the equation to find the exact dip levels on the internet, or, you could guess it out. Try finessing the curves until you have a dip, and the dip doesn't look awkward. You shouldn't notice it from the top at all, but you should be able to see it from the side.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>Good dip example.</center></td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">How hide all of your curves and show all three pieces of geometry.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><h2 style="color: #2070b0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; text-transform: uppercase;">NORMALS:</h2><div style="font-size: 12px;">The l_glass shader has two areas of settings for it. The first is about what the surface looks like on the outside, and the second concerns what the surface looks like on the inside. It's actually quite simple to tell it those things, but first we have to make sure it knows outside from inside. It uses something called NORMALS. if you can master the normals, the l_glass shader is really simple to figure out.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Many people try the l_glass and give up, because it's not giving them their wanted results immediately. Well, many people forget to adjust the normals. I'm going to make it obscenely easy for you to remember which way normals should be facing.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Outer Glass - Normals facing OUTWARDS on the outside, INWARDS on the inside<br />
Inner Glass (Liquid) - Normals facing INWARDS<br />
Loft (Liquid Upper Surface) - Normals facing DOWNWARDS</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">If you're totally lost here, DON'T GIVE UP. It's really really simple to view and switch normals, all it takes is the click of a button.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center>Look at the guide: the loft normals should be facing downwards.</center></td><td><center>Ahh, that's better.</center></td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">To view or hide the normals, select the object, then select from the menu "Display, NURBS Components, Normals (Shaded Mode)".</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">To switch the normals, select from the menu "Edit NURBS, Reverse Surface Direction".</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Now, if you created everything the same as me, and you're using Maya 7, you don't need to switch any surface directions. I cannot promise that this will always apply, and you should double-check all of your normals before moving on. Once you have finished aligning your normals to the direction I mentioned above, hide your normals. It's now time to start shading!</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span><h2 style="color: #2070b0; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 300; text-transform: uppercase;">SHADING:</h2><div style="font-size: 12px;">You need two more things before you start shading: a light and an environment. Hopefully everyone here knows how to make a point-light to cast some light and checker-patterned box to hold your glass. Make those now if you need a makeshift environment.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">You can render your scene to make sure those turned out all right. While you're at it make sure to CHANGE YOUR RENDERER TO MENTAL RAY. the L_glass shader can only be used in mental ray, and will be invisible in the Maya Software renderer. In the mental ray Render Globals, make sure that:</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Anti-Aliasing is set to at least 0-2. Lower will make it unbearably grainy.<br />
Reflection and Refraction under the "Raytracing" category are set to at least 8.<br />
Max Trace Depth under the "Raytracing" category is at least 50.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Assuming that you've installed the l_glass shader by now, you need to assign a separate l_glass shader to each of your pieces of geometry. If you switch your menu to the "Rendering" menu, you can do this from the menu by selecting the objects, than selecting from the menu "Lighting/Shading, Assign New Material, L_Glass".</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Let's take a look at what we having in our hypershade.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">We have three l_glass shaders, each one assigned to a piece of geometry. I suggest you name each one after the piece of geometry that it's assigned to, to keep things simple. Now I will go over the l_glass shader attributes.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Color Filter - The color of the liquid, without factoring in refractions<br />
Attenuation - Measures the thickness. Very useful for fine-tuning caustics.<br />
Index of Refraction - A scientific term that describes how much light rays get bent by the surface.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">These are the big three attributes for l_glass. The biggest one is the index of refraction. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_indices_of_refraction" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Here</a> is a Wikipedia page that notes some common indices of refraction. The ones that we will need to know are water (1.33) and glass (1.50).</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Let's start messing with out attributes here. I'm going to give you the indices of refraction for all of my surfaces.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Notice that every part associated with the liquid is given an index of 1.33, while every part associated with glass is given an index of 1.50. This will leave you with a perfect glass of water. Pretty cool, eh? Also note, another important attribute is accuracy. Never leave this below 5 for test renders and 8 for finals.</div><div style="font-size: 12px;">Now a water glass isn't exactly what I wanted. I was going for white wine. L_glass still has some bugs with color, so changing around your colors will be kind of a hassle. All I have to change are the big three attributes. Here are my final ones (for white wine).You may want to change your color depending on the surroundings, because the l_glass shader is easily affected by the environmental colors. Remember, the most accurate color isn't always the most realistic one. </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td>OUTER GLASS<br />
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<b>Outside:</b><br />
Color Filter - H=240, S=0.005, V=0.996<br />
Attenuation - 5<br />
Index of Refraction - 1.50<br />
</td><td>INNER GLASS<br />
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<b>Outside:</b><br />
Color Filter - H=240, S=0.005, V=0.996<br />
Attenuation - 5<br />
Index of Refraction - 1.50</td><td>SURFACE LOFT<br />
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<b>Outside:</b><br />
Color Filter - H=57, S=0.040, V=1<br />
Attenuation - 8<br />
Index of Refraction - 1.35</td></tr>
<tr><td> </td><td><b>Inside:</b><br />
Color Filter - H=57, S=0.035, V=1<br />
Attenuation - 8<br />
Level of Refraction - 1.35</td><td> </td></tr>
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</span><div style="font-size: 12px;">Here is a the final render of the wineglass, and a simple cup of water, placed in an HDR-illuminated scene using final gather. The unrealistic shadow under the glass is the result of a physical light, which is being removed for the next render. The important thing is, the l_glass shader gave us a realistic result with a moderate render time and only a couple minutes of work!</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<tr><td><center><img alt="Example of the l_glass shader" height="640" src="http://www.3dmayatutorials.com/images/l_glass/finalrender.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial;" width="480" /></center></td></tr>
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</span><center style="font-size: 12px;"><ins style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline-table; height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 728px;"></ins></center>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-50694585978322995652011-06-29T00:18:00.001-07:002011-06-29T00:18:43.689-07:00Create a Retro Rainbow Waterfall Using 3DS Max and Particle Flow<div id="the_post" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px; width: 640px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">This tutorial will show you how to use Particle Flow to create an outstanding 3D retro rainbow waterfall inside of 3DS Max! We will play with some basic objects and PFlow features to create some imaginative geometric shapes. So, let’s get started!<br />
<span id="more-307"></span></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Final image preview</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/final2.jpg" style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="final600" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-319" height="375" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/final6002.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/final6002.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(181, 181, 181); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(181, 181, 181); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(181, 181, 181); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(181, 181, 181); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #cc0000; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; z-index: 999999;" title="final600" width="600" /></a><ins style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline-table; height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 468px;"><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="15" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;" vspace="0" width="468"></iframe></ins></ins></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 1</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Open up 3DS Max and go to Particle Flow View (6). Create a Standard Flow and replace a “Shape” with “Shape Instance”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-308" height="268" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/113.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/113.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="1" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 2</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Create a box that is 2m long, 0.1m wide and 0.1m high. Add an “Edit Poly” modifier to it and move four vertices on one side of your box a bit forward to create something like on the image below.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-309" height="382" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/210.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/210.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="2" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 3</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Let’s now change Rotation’s “Orientation Matrix” from “Random 3D” to “Speed Space Follow”. Use 90 for Z axis. After that go to “Birth” event and change the “Emit Stop” to 220 and the “Amount” to 2000. Then go to “Shape Instance” and use your box from the previous step as a “Particle Geometry Object”.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="3" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-310" height="365" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/34.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/34.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="3" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 4</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Make your PFlow wider and duplicate it. Place it like on the image below. You can also use “Find Target” operator and two mesh objects that will act like they are targets. Both methods works similar but the first one is just quicker.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="4" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-311" height="339" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/44.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/44.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="4" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 5</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The last thing is to set up a camera. Try to place it as That’s how it should look like afterwards.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="5" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-312" height="388" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/54.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/54.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="5" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 6</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Now let’s switch to VRay rendering engine and render your scene with resolution set to 1280×800px. I used VRay Sky with standard settings and a default VRayMtl with darker grey. This is what I got after rendering the scene:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="6" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-313" height="462" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/64.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/64.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="6" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 7</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Now move to the Photoshop and create a new document that has 1280×800px. Fill the background layer with black using Paint Bucket Tool (G).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="7" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-314" height="346" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/74.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/74.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="7" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 8</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Cut out your shape from the render using its Alpha channel. You should be familiar with how to cut it out if you’ve read my previous tutorials so I’m not including the full instruction here. Pase it into the main document. Add a Gradient Overlay to it with the following settings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="8" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-315" height="847" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/84.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/84.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="8" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 9</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Duplicate it and use a “Motion Blur” with angle set to -90 degress and a distance set to something like 60 pixels. Move this layer below the previous one and erase its edges if they create some kind of a glow (we don’t need it).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="9" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-316" height="401" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/93.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/93.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="9" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 10</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Background is a bit more complicated. First I rendered the scene using the top view. Then I started to draw some huge dots with the brush and the color set to green and blue on a separate layers. I set the first layer to “Soft Light” and the second to “Normal” but with opacity decreased to 30%.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="10" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-317" height="355" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/102.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/102.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="10" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 11</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Finally, I decided not to use the shape from the previous step but I did something similar instead. Press CTRL/CMD and click on the layer with the rendered shapre visible from the top. Once it’s selected click on the layers from the previous step and use this selection as their mask. That should give you a nice effect like on the image below.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img alt="11" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-318" height="355" original="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/114.jpg" src="http://forcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/114.jpg" style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; display: block; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;" title="11" width="600" /></div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Step 12</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After that repeat the two previous steps to create other parts of the background. You may want to use some additional textures to make the background more interesting. Once you turn on all the layers you’ve created you should see something similar to the final image. Most likely it will require some Brightness/Contrast tweaks and I’ve also added some little shiny particles in the background. I’ve also created a new layer with clouds (Filter -> Render -> Clouds…) and set it to overlay with decreased opacity.</div><h3 style="clear: both; color: #27221f; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 35px; width: 640px;">Conclusion</h3><div style="margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">That’s all. I hope you enjoyed it! If so, you may check my other tutorials or visit this site often to see even more in the future! 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My name is Dennis and just got my hands on the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Vray For Maya demo</em></strong>! A friend asked if I could explain the basics, so here is a very simple tutorial.<br />
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First of all if you havent, get <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Vray For Maya<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> </strong>from<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> ChaosGroup --> http://www.chaosgroup.com (you have to create an account)</strong></em><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">When that is done, hit the render Settings button and choose <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">V-ray</strong></em>!</span><br />
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In this tutorial the settings in the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�VRay Common�</strong></em> tab is not that relevant, so we jump right to the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�VRay� </strong></em>tab! To override mayas enviroment check <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Override Enviroment�</strong></em>, then I usually tint the blue color to a more white, but thats optional.<br />
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</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Hit render, my scene looks like this!</span><br />
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Under the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Irradiance map�</strong></em> settings, you can choose from different quality settings, �<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">high�</strong></em> is for production. Keep in mind, for testrenders it might be better to lower the settings to medium or low, to save time!</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">New render!</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">A feature under the �Settings� tab that can be useful is the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Adaptive Threshold�</strong> For Production quality, set it to<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> 0.003,</strong> it reduces the noise pretty good, for testrenders I sometimes go up to 0.5, saves alot of time!<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">We leave the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Translator�</strong></em> tab and <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Render Elements�</strong></em> to another tutorial!</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Ok, so we did just set up a basic GI enviroment, lets add a light and also take a quick look at the vray materials!<br />
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It adds a vray-light in the middle of the scene, rotate and change the size of it as you wish, also you often have to lower the <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">intesity</strong></em>(default 30) I used a value of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">"3" </strong>in my scene!<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">To create a simple <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; 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border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�hypershade window�</strong></em> and select <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">attribute editor</em> change the color to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">black</strong> and make the material <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">reflective</strong>! </span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">And there we have it! You can se the lights reflection in the chromespehere, it can easily be turned off under the lights attribute and uncheck <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�Affect reflections�</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">If the light should block your view, check <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">�invisible�</strong></em> in the attributes for the light</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Here is a quick test I did! I hope that this simple tutorial can help you to get startet with Vray For Maya! </span></span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-14358488470581906382011-06-27T09:36:00.000-07:002011-06-27T09:36:42.824-07:00Model a Rocket with Particle Trail in Maya<h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Application Used: Autodesk Maya</h2><h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Author: Bogdan Amidzic</h2><h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Contact:<a class="bbluelink" href="mailto:the@cavz.com" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the@cavz.com</a></h2><h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Author Website:<a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.cavz.com/" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.cavz.com/</a></h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><h2 style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.05em; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Model a Rocket with particle trail</h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a rocket using NURBS, and then animate its movement using path curve. I'll also show how to make a simple smoke trail.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_01_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">First go to create/CV curve tool.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_02.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_02_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then just click to make points. Create a simple profile for the rocket. If you make a mistake, just press delete and the point will be deleted. When you've finished, press Enter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_03.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_03_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So you will get something like this:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_04.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_04_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Next, select that curve and go to Surface/revolve option box</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_05.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_05_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">In the options window, set it to rotate around the Z axis.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_06.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So now, you've got some basic rocket geometry.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_07.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_07_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">If you want to tweak the rocket shape, just select the curve and edit it. The rocket shape will be updated. Note that construction history must be on (it is on by default).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_08.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_08_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now select the rocket geometry and go to isoparm mode and select the last isopram.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_09.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_09_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then go to surfaces/planar. This will create a planar surface from the selected shape.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_10.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_10_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now create more curves like this.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_11.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_11_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Select them all.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_12.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now, revolve them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_13.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">From the top view, create another curve. This will form the shape of the wing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_14.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Duplicate it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_15.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Move its points to the axis. Just select all CV's and hold X and move them towards the axis.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_16.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Tweak it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_17.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now select both curves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_18.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">And go to surfaces/loft. This will make a surface between the selected curves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_19.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now we have the wing, but it is one sided. Since its pivot point lies at 0,0,0 - just duplicate it and set the negative scale around the Axis (I think it was Z in my case).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_20.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_20_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now select both wing surfaces and group them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_21.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_21_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then go to duplicate options (now it's called duplicate special) and make three copies at every 90 degrees around the Z axis.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_22.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So the rocket geometry is completed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_23.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now select all curves and delete them. You can mask selection by unchecking surfaces. Then just grab the selection and only curves will be selected. Also delete history on surfaces.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_24.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_24_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Assign shaders to the rocket.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_25.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Create point light. Move it to the back of the rocket and set intensity to something high (5 or 10) and set decay to linear.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_26.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Press 7 to see the lighting in viewport.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_27.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_27_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Select rocket geometry and light and group them. Set the group's name to rocket.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_28.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_28_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">You can freeze transform the group. This will set all attributes to 0. You can make a layer and put the rocket in it. Refer the help for more info about layers.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_29.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_29_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now for a simple terrain. Create a polygon plane and set divisions to 100x100. Then go to sculpt geometry tool</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_30.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_30_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Deform the surface to look like a terrain.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_31.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_31_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Make directional light and set intensity to 1.2 and color to light yellow or orange.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Make path curve for rocket.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_32.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_32_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now select rocket group and the path. Go to animation mode motion paths/attach to motion path option box.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_33.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Set time as you wish, I've set mine to 100 frames. As you can see, the rocket tip is oriented to negative Z. Set front vector to Z and up to Y. Check inverse front, so it will inverse Z to negative Z.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_34.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_34_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">When you attach it, the rocket will be set to the beginning of motion path. Play the animation. Cool?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_35.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now smoke. Go to dynamics mode and go to particles/create emitter. By default it will create an omni emitter at 0,0,0. Also it will create a particle1 node. Move the emitter to the rocket's back:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_36.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_36_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then MMB drag the emitter to rocket group in outliner. This will parent the emitter to the rocket, so its movement is relative to the rocket.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_37.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_37_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">If you play the animation, the particles will appear behind the rocket. Select emitter and set speed to 0.2.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_38.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_38_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Under particleShape1 go to render attributes and set Particle Render Type to Cloud (S/W). Set radius to 0.4 (these numbers are relative to scene size, so you might need to experiment).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_39.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_39_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then white particles are assigned the particle cloud shader to them (same thing as assigning shader to geometry). Note: make sure that the mouse is over particle.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Make color dark gray.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_40.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_40_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Then click on the checker on the right side of Life Incandescence attribute. This will open create texture window. Create ramp texture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Life Incandescence will take the values from ramp, and calculate particle color based on the life of each particle. In hypershade you can see three new nodes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Edit the ramp.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Note, the bottom of the ramp is beginning of particle's life and the top of the ramp is end. Tweak the colors to start with bright orange and change to orange and than to black.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Also make one ramp for life transparency. Set its color to go from gray to white.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This will make particles fade.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_41.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_41_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now you can see that every particle is the same size. I don't like that. The trail shall get thicker at the end.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So go to per particle attributes tab and click general button. Then select RadiusPP attribute, and click add.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_42.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_42_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Notice that RadiusPP is now in the list. Hold RMB on it. You shall get small popup menu. Choose create ramp. Particle size will be connected to the ramp texture.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_43.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_43_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Hold RMB on RadiusPP and choose edit ramp. Edit the ramp so the first color is gray with .3 value and the last color (top color) shall be set to white (value of 1).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This means that every particle will grow from .3 to 1.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_44.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now you can render. I don't like that gaps in the trail.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_45.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_45_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Select emitter and change rate to 400. Now more particles will be emitted.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_46.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Also you can see that particles die too fast (trail is too short). Under particleShape1 there's a tab called lifespan Attributes. Open it and set Lifespan Mode to Random Range and set lifespan to 2, and Lifespan Random to 0.2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This means that every particle will live 2 seconds (48 frames) plus/minus 0.2 seconds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_47.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_47_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now the trail could behave more randomly. To do that select the particle and go to ;fields/turbulence. Set attenuation to 0. and magnitude to 2.5 or 3. Magnitude is the strength of the field. Also set frequency to 3 or 4.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_48_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now make a NURBS sphere and scale it. This will be the sky.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_49.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Assign surface shader to it and assign ramp texture to its color. Set the colors like I have. Also set ramp to U ramp. Also if you look at the Sphere Shape node, go to render stats tab and turn off cast shadows and receive shadows.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_50.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now set renderer to mental ray. I prefer using mental ray with particles and fluids since it gived nice results especially when using final gather. Also mental ray provides faster raytracing with volumetric objects.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Select Directional light that you previously created and turn on raytrace shadows. Increase Shadow Rays to 5. Under mental ray settings turn on final gathering. Final gather will use that sky sphere as an illumination object.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_51.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_51_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now if you render, you will see some nice results. However I don't like the shading of the particles. It looks good from a distance but it's useless for close ups.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_52.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_52_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Go back to life incandescence ramp. It should look like this. Note that the ramp is using only flat colors. But what if we could map texture to each of these colors?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Of course we can do that. Remember -- in Maya, you can map texture to everything.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_53.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_53_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So create solidFractal and Stucco textures. Refer to Lava shader tutorial to see how to make it look like fire. Map the solid fractal to first color of the ramp (just MMB drag texture to color in the ramp). For the second color, use stucco with shaker set to 30 or 40 and map one color with fractal used in the first color. Third color of the ramp should be black. Also, it's a good idea to map color attribute of particle shader to fractal texture with small color gain. I do this just to get slight color variation.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_54_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">So from now it's all tweaking. So tweak!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_55_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_56_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_57.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_57_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_58.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/bogdan_amidzic/model_a_rocket_with_particle_trail/model_rocket_with_maya_particle_58_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Click Here to View Large Image</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">]</span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-40914483867163039632011-06-27T09:09:00.000-07:002011-06-27T09:09:08.443-07:00How to Make Realistic Clouds using Maya Fluids<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Software: Maya<br />
Author: Avi Morgan<br />
Author Website: <a href="http://www.avimorgan.com/">http://www.avimorgan.com/</a><br />
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</strong></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_01.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_01.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>PART I - CLOUDS</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">01. Create a 3D Fluid Container: "Fluid Effects" -> "Create 3D Container".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_02.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_02.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_03.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_03.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">02. Access the Attributes of the 3D Container.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_04.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_04.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">03. Set the 'Container Properties' to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">X Resolution: 75</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Y Resolution: 10</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Z Resolution: 75</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">X Size: 25</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Y Size: 05</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Z Size: 25</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_05.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_05.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">04. Set the 'Contents Method' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Density: Off (zero)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Velocity: Off (zero)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_06.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_06.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">05. Set the 'Shading' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Transparency (R, G, B): 0.090</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Edge Dropoff: 0.50</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_07.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_07.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">06. Set the 'Color' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 1 -- Position: 0.00 / Selected Color: White</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 2 -- Position: 0.75 / Selected Color: Grey</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 3 -- Position: 1.00 / Selected Color: Black</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_08.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_08.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Color Input: Y Gradient</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_09.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_09.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">07. Set the 'Opacity' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 1 -- Position: 1.00 / Selected Value: 0.95</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 2 -- Position: 0.80 / Selected Value: 0.80</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 3 -- Position: 0.60 / Selected Value: 0.60</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 4 -- Position: 0.50 / Selected Value: 0.35</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 5 -- Position: 0.45 / Selected Value: 0.00</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_10.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_10.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Set the 'Opacity Input' to "Constant", and the 'Input Bias' to "0.03".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_11.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_11.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">08. Set the 'Shading Quality' to "3.00".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_12.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_12.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">09. Set the 'Textures' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Texture Color: On</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Texture Opacity: On</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_13.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_13.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Amplitude: 0.95</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Ratio: 0.40</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Frequency Ratio: 2.75</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Depth Max: 4</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Inflection: On</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Frequency: 1.95</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_14.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_14.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Finished with the clouds!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_15.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_15.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now let's make the sky...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><strong>PART II - SKY</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">01. Create another 3d Fluid Container.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_16.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_16.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_17.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_17.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">02. Access the Container's attributes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_18.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_18.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">03. Set the 'Container Properties' to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">X Resolution: 25</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Y Resolution: 05</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Z Resolution: 25</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_19.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_19.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Set the Size of this container so that it's large enough to encompass your clouds.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_20.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_20.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">04. Set the 'Contents Method' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Density: Off (zero)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Velocity: Off (zero)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_21.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_21.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">05. Set the 'Shading' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Transparency (R, G, B): 0.85</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Edge Dropoff: 0.35</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_22.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_22.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">06. Access the 'Color' Subsection and set the 'Selected Color' to Black.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_23.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_23.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">07. Set the 'Incandescence' attributes to the following values:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 1 -- Position: 0.000 / Selected Color: R 0.50, G 0.75, B 3.000</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Point 2 -- Position: 1.000 / Selected Color: R 0.85, G 0.90, B 1.000</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_24.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_24.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">08. Set the 'Incandescent Input' to "Y Gradient," and the 'Input Bias' to "-0.25".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_25.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_25.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">09. Access the 'Opacity' Subsection and set the value of both points to "0.85".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_26.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_26.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">10. To emphasize the shading of the clouds, access the 'Lighting' Subsection and set the 'Self Shadow' on. Adjust the Opacity level to your desire.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_27.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_27.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">That's it for creating a realistic sky with clouds!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_28.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="How to make clouds using maya fluids" border="0" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/Avi_Morgan/how_to_make_clouds/How_to_make_clouds_using_maya_fluids_28.jpg" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-27570073824847239952011-06-27T09:00:00.001-07:002011-06-27T09:00:21.590-07:00Using Nuke 6 X 3d tracking data inside of Maya<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">To import .chan into Maya you will need this file:<br />
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http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/utility-external/c/-chan-file-exporter-importer-with-nuke6x-point-cloud-importing--2<br />
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<div id="mediaspace" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="file=/tutorials/using-nuke-6-x-3d-tracking-data-inside-of-maya/video.flv&image=" height="320" id="ply" name="ply" quality="high" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/swfs/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="470" wmode="opaque"></embed></div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-12174729198931618582011-06-27T08:59:00.001-07:002011-06-27T08:59:40.130-07:00Making hair styles with Maya fur (video)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">In this tutorial we will create some hair styles with Maya fur plug-in. Im assuming that you have a basic knowledge in Maya and its core concepts and procedures, which will help to keep this tutorial as short as possible.<br />
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A text version of this same totorial can be found at <a href="http://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials/making-hair-styles-with-maya-fur-/page1" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank">https://www.creativecrash.com/tutorials/making-hair-styles-with-maya-fur-/page1</a><br />
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<div id="mediaspace" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="file=/tutorials/making-hair-styles-with-maya-fur-video/video.flv&image=/system/photos/000/098/614/98614/big/14.png" height="320" id="ply" name="ply" quality="high" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/swfs/player.swf" style="visibility: visible;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="470" wmode="opaque"></embed></div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-66446975832606471962011-06-27T08:57:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:57:01.720-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">In this tutorial we will create some hair styles with Maya fur plug-in. Im assuming that you have a basic knowledge in Maya and its core concepts and procedures, which will help to keep this tutorial as short as possible. A video version of this tutorial can be found at<a href="http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/paint-fx/c/making-hair-styles-with-maya-fur-video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank">https://www.creativecrash.com/maya/tutorials/paint-fx/c/making-hair-styles-with-maya-fur-video</a></div><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/505/79505/big/1.png?1265077588" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">First well create a new UV set which will be linked to the fur description node later.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">1. Select the head and go the side view. And press F11 to go the face selection mode and select the faces which make up the scalp area. You can start with a basic selection and also try using the paint selection tool (edit > paint selection tool).</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/506/79506/big/2.png?1265077649" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><a href="http://anu3d.highend3d.com/files/2008/10/3_mid.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" title="3_mid.png"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/509/79509/big/3.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">2. After the faces have been selected we need to create a UV projection node.<br />
On the Create UVs menu select Cylindrical Mapping. This will create a new mapping node.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/507/79507/big/4.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/511/79511/big/6.png?1265078017" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">3. Now locate the polyCylProj1 node and set the rotate x to -90. This will rotate the projection node so it should look like this.<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> </span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">4. Now we will save this set of UVs to a new UV set. Select > convert selection > to faces will convert the selection to UVs.</div><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/512/79512/big/8.png?1265078070" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">5. Open window > UV texture editor to view the UVs. You can use the UV texture editor to scale or move the UVs if needed.</div>6. Select a UV from the UV texture editor that belongs to the UV set we want to save. Select, select shell from the select menu. This will select all the UVs that belong to the UV shell.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">7. Select polygons> copy UVs to UV set > copy in to new UV set > <img alt="options.png" src="http://anu3d.highend3d.com/files/2008/10/options.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /> to open the copy in to new UV set options box. Enter fur_hair as the new UVset name. Click, apply and close.</div><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/513/79513/big/9.png?1265078160" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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Now we are ready to add the fur description node.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">8. Press F8 to return to object mode. Select the head and select, fur > attach fur description > new. This will attach a new fur description node to the head mesh.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/514/79514/big/10.png?1265078209" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/515/79515/big/11.png?1265078252" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">9. We need to edit the fur description nodes attributes to the desired values to make the hair style.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">10. You can start with a preset from the fur description node to make hair styles. It is the easiest way to start. However I have added some methods of creating different hair styles.</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Making different hair styles</strong><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> All these hair styles have been started with fur presets and customized for the look. The actual values such as length may vary depending on the size of the model.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
</strong></em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Style 1</strong></em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/516/79516/big/13.png?1265078295" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></strong> </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">1. Start with the mouse preset<br />
2. Length = 2<br />
3. Inclination = 1<br />
4. Polar = 1<br />
5. Tip curl = .2</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Style 2</strong></em></div><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/517/79517/big/14.png?1265078366" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">1. Start with the wet otter preset<br />
2. Length = 1.5<br />
3. Inclination = 0.9<br />
4. Polar = 0.14</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Style 3</strong></em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/079/518/79518/big/15.png?1265078396" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> 1. Start with the squirrel preset<br />
2. Length = 1<br />
3. Inclination = 0<br />
4. Clumping = 1</div><br />
More tutorials on <a href="http://www.anu3d.info/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">www.anu3d.info</a></span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-481494560256411462011-06-27T08:55:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:55:47.112-07:00Underwater lighting - parti_volume<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"></span><br />
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">In this tutorial we will be exploring the use of the Mental Ray node "parti_volume". in the past this has been somewhat troublesome for new and experienced users alike. however with this tutorial i aim to explain how to set it up in a way that will enable you to go ahead and put it to your own use.<br />
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We will also be covering the creation of caustics. Although i will be using it in the situation of moving open water the process of creating them works in any situation that you require caustics.<br />
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So lets get going...</div><br />
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for all of the following make sure Interactive Creation is turned off<br />
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1. Create a polygon cube and scale it by 300.<br />
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2. Name this Cube "photonBoundry". see figure 1.1<br />
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<img alt="photonBoundry" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/779/98779/big/photonBoundry.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 1.1<br />
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3. Create a Polygon Plane and scale it by 60.<br />
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4. Name this Plane "seaBed". see figure 1.2<br />
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<img alt="seaBed" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/781/98781/big/seaBed.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 1.2<br />
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5. Create another Polygon Plane, scale it by 20 and this time translate it by x=10 , y= 17, z=10.<br />
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6. Name this Plane "waterSurface". see figure 1.3<br />
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<img alt="waterSurface" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/782/98782/big/waterSurface.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 1.3<br />
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7. Create a Spot Light and rotate it by x=-75, y=50, z=0 and translate by x=15, y=36, z=15.<br />
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8. Name this Spotlight "photonEmmitter". see figure 1.4<br />
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<img alt="photonEmitter" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/780/98780/big/photonEmitter.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 1.4<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Part 2 - Water Setup</span></span></strong><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">In this section we will be dealing with setting up the water surface which will provide the medium for which the light will pass through to create the Caustics and volumetric lighting effect. in this section we will just be setting up the surface of the water in a later section we will deal with the "parti_volume" node which does most of the work.<br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">1. Create a new "dielectric_material" by selecting and Right Clicking on the "waterSurface" polygon plane and choosing "Assign New Material" from the menu. You'll find the "dielectric_material" in the Mental Ray nodes in the window that has popped up..<br />
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2. Open up the shading group for the "dielectric_material" by clicking on the "go to output connections" <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="output_connections" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/792/98792/big/output_connections.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></span> button in the attribute editor<br />
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3. Click the chequered box next to "Displacement mat." and select the "Ocean" texture from the "2D Textures" Category. the attributes for the texture should now show up.<br />
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4. Use the settings as shown in the image below. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 2.1</span><br />
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<img alt="ocean_material" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/793/98793/big/ocean_material.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">figure 2.1</span><br />
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5. If you want to animate the ocean attribute then Right Click on the "Time" attribute of the ocean and select "Create new expression" and type the following in to the MEL Expression area at the bottom:<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">ocean1.time = time/2;</span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Part 3 - The Spot Light</span></strong></span><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">In this section we will be looking at how to set up the Spot Light to emit photons and caustic photons. Again these instructions can be used for any situation requiring photon emission. the reason we are using a spot light here is that it offers a very focused beam of light compared to the other lights within maya. This is good as if we were to emit photons in a less focused manner then we would an awful lot of photons which would put unnecessary strain on the rendering and could end up taking forever to complete.<br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">1. The first thing to note for this situation is we will not be using visible light. we will be using only photons that are emitted from the light. Therefore the first thing we need to do is uncheck "Emit Diffuse" and "Emit Specular" in the light attributes. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.1</span><br />
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2. So that the light covers the area of the "waterSurface" Plane we need to increase the size of the "Cone Angle". if you have followed these instructions correctly you will need to change this value to "74". <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.1</span><br />
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To confirm that this has worked you can select the light and in the viewport select "Panels > Look Through Selected". the circle that you see is the cone angle. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.2</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">figure 3.1</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><br style="font-style: italic;" /><img alt="look_through" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/810/98810/big/look_through.jpg?1278079823" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br style="font-style: italic;" /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">figure 3.2</span><br />
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3. Now is time to setup the photon emission. open up the attributes for the light again and open up the "Mental Ray" and scroll down to the "Caustic and Global Illumination" Section.<br />
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4. Check the box next to "Emit Photons" and you'll see the section light up. Now set the "Exponent to "1.5".<br />
You'll notice that the "Caustic Photons" option is still greyed out. this is not a problem. we just haven't told maya that we want Caustics yet. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.3</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><br />
<img alt="light_phot_setup_1" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/829/98829/big/light_phot_setup_1.jpg?1278084968" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Figure 3.3</span><br />
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5. Open up the Render Options Diologue box and make sure the renderer is set to "Mental Ray" then open up the tab "Indirect Lighting". Open up the "Caustics" Section and check the box next to "Caustics". <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.4</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><br />
<img alt="render_settings" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/811/98811/big/render_settings.jpg?1278079957" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">figure 3.4</span><br />
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6. if you now close the attributes for the light and open them again the option for caustic photons will be available. Set this value to 500000. <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 3.5</em><br />
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<img alt="light_phot_setup_2" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/830/98830/big/light_phot_setup_2.jpg?1278085030" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">figure 3.5</span></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Part 4 - The "parti_volume" Node</span></strong></span><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">In this section we will be looking at how to set up the "parti_volume" node which over time has become a complicated node to setup. It is this node that makes this tutorial work. although there are differet ways of using the "parti_volume" i have found this setup to be the most dynamic with the use of photonic lights rather than Mental Rays' "Physical Lights"<br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Setting up the photonBoundry</span><br />
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1. select the photonBoundry Cube and right click and select "Assign New Material". Select "Transmat" from the Mental Ray nodes section.<br />
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2. Open up the Shading Group Attrributes by clicking on the "Go to Output Connections" button <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="output_connections" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/792/98792/big/output_connections.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /> </span>and open up the "Mental Ray" section.<br />
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3. Scroll down to the "Custom Shaders" section and click the chequered box next to the "Volume Shader" attribute. load into there the "parti_volume" found under the "volumetric Materials" section under the Mental Ray nodes. leave the settings for the "parti_volume" alone for now.<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Setting up the waterSurface</span><br />
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4. Select the waterSurface plane and open up the attribute editor for it.<br />
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5. Select the "dielectric_material1" tab and click the "Go to Output Connections" button <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><img alt="output_connections" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/792/98792/big/output_connections.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" />.<br />
</span>6. Scroll down to the "Custom Shaders" section and where it says "Volume Shader"<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> </span>type: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">parti_volume1</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
</span>7. Now where it says <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">"</span>Phot Volume Shader" click the chequered box and select "parti_volume_photon" from the "Photonic Volumetric Materials" section under the Mental Ray nodes. Again leave the settings alone for the node as we'll set them up later.<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Setting up the Camera</span><br />
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1. open up the attributes for the camera by clicking on the "camera Attributes" button in the viewport (it's the second button in on the "mini shelf" in the perspective viewport.) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 4.1<br />
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<img alt="minishelf" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/831/98831/big/minishelf.jpg?1278086145" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 4.1</span><br />
2. Scroll down and open up the "Mental Ray" section.<br />
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3. In the "Volume Shader" box type: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">parti_volume1<br />
</span>Almost done now!<br />
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Setting up the parti_volume nodes</span></span></strong><br />
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1. open up the hyper shade and select the "parti_volume1" material that you created earlier and use the following settings. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 4.2<br />
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<img alt="parti_volume" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/832/98832/big/parti_volume.jpg?1278086202" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 4.2<br />
</span>2. Back in the Hypershade open up the "Utilities" tab and open the attributes for the "parti_volume_photon1" node you created earlier. Use the following settings. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">See figure 4.3<br />
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<img alt="parti_volume_phot" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/833/98833/big/parti_volume_phot.jpg?1278086243" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
figure 4.3<br />
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Quick note: a few people struggled with the tutorial and it would seem the problems are witht he parti_volume and parti_volume_photon setup. when setting the scatter attribute make sure it is a dark grey and not a black colour.<br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">The end result</strong></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
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<img alt="final_image" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/840/98840/big/final_image.jpeg?1278087207" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /></span><br />
if you want to change the colour of the light coming in then all you need to do is change the "Col" and "Outside Color" of the "dielectric_material1" shader to the colour of your choice. example below.<br />
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<img alt="colour_image" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/098/841/98841/big/colour_image.jpeg?1278087282" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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</span><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Well thats its guys. I hope this tutorial has been of help. It's my first attempt at a tutorial so your feedback would be much appreciated!</strong></div></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Written By</strong></span><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Since our students need a effective way to display their concepts and ideas, our teachers have developed many tutorials in order to give them an additional tool that every designer should have. This tutorial explains all steps to illuminate an object with a technique which simulates the illumination techniques of a photo studio.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Before we begin it is very important to inform you that we will use "Mental Ray" as render engine (version 8 and 9 of 3D Studio Max).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Mental Ray is a very stable render engine and it allows you to have very realistic renderings. Since we are using Mental Ray for this tutorial it is very important to use "real dimensions" for all the objects that we have to create. Otherwise the result will not be realistic. It means that you have to go to CUSTOMIZE -> UNITS SETUP and choose the units that you want to use. In any case you should get used to create objects with their real dimensions so that you get a feeling for correct dimensions and proportions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The first step to do is to create an "environment object" (it is similar to the rooms which are used in the professional field of photography) on which later we will place our object to illuminate (this is ideal for product/industrial design and furniture design).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">There are different shapes that you can create to have an environment-object which will be reflected correctly on your object and will give very good render results (image 0).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">What many designers don't know is exactly this last point: in order to have a good rendering, the object has not only to receive a good lightning, but it needs to receive a good reflection of the room in which it is placed.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_01.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_01_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 0 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The color that you should assign to the environment-object (the room) should be white like the walls of a photo-studio ! The material should not have specular highlights. In this way the color of the environment will not affect the color of your product design (especially if you use reflective materials). Of course it is the designer's choice to change the color to a different one.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Let's do the first steps for an environment-object. Create a spline like the letter "L". Then select the corner vertex and go to "modify", select the "fillet" tool and smooth the corner like in "image 1".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_02.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_02_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 1 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">If you like to have a very smooth environment you should put a very big value in the fillet slot. Now we need to create an outline of this shape (the thickness of the walls). Select "spline" and go to outline the spline with the command "outline" that you can find again in the modify panel.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">From this point you can create both environment objects (the linear or the circular one). To create the "straight" one (which will be the one that I will use for the tutorial) you must assign to the spline an "extrude" modifier from the modifier list (Image 2).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_03.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_03_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 2 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">To get a more realistic illumination I have enabled Final Gather in "indirect illumination". I Put a quite high number in "samples" to make the final rendering (600) (image "4").</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_04.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_04_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 3 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Just go to hierarchy, click on the button "affect pivot only" and move the pivot (this button allows you to move/rotate the pivot independently from the object)! After this step assign to the spline a "lathe" modifier from the modifier list. You will see that you will create an object similar to a tube. Go to the modify panel and increase the segment number to have a smoother shape. Now go to Degrees and put 180° in the slot. You should have the result of "image 4".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_05.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_05_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 4 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Both of these two objects are really useful. It is your choice which one to use for your renderings.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_06.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_06_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 5 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Create a teapot on the environment-object (in the room) and create a simple skylight. Remember that the illumination direction of the skylight can't be changed, i will ALWAYS come from the top (image 5).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">For now you can leave the standard multiplier value=1. To be able to render correctly with a skylight you must enable final gather in Mental Ray (without final gather the skylight will not work "image 6").</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_07.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_07_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 6 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_08.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">For the first test rendering put a low number like 40 in the Final Gather Samples slot (in Max 9 you must use the Rays per FG point slot). Make now a test rendering. You should have the same result like in "image 7". Tip for test render : a smaller render size will allow you to have a shorter render time.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_09.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_09_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 7 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The skylight is NOT able to create specular-highlights on the object. The specular-highlights are of course VERY important to simulate different kind of materials. This is the reason why you should never use only one skylight in your scenes. It is important to have an additional light. If you want to have a very strong specularhighlights like on car paint materials you should use Mr Omni lights (you can find the tutorial of the car paint material in the FDA tutorials for materials). For this tutorial I will use a photometric target area light. This light is very soft, it gives very good and realistic results. Let's create an target area light like on "image 8".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_10.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_10_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 8 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">It is important to consider that the softness of the shadows of this light will change with the size of the light (big size:soft shadows, small size: sharp shadows).The shadow type MUST be "raytraced shadows", only this kind of shadow will give optimal results with mental ray. Don't create a light with a too big size, otherwise the shadows will be too soft and will cover too big areas, this will darken the environment and will not look realistic.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Since now we have two lights you should reduce the multiplier of the skylight. Try to put a value between 0.4 and 0.7. I have reduced it a lot in my scene, in this way it is clear that the main light source is the area light. I like the contrast between strong illuminated surfaces and darker surfaces like on "image 9". But at the end it is your taste which will decide about the multiplier amount of the two lights. Sometimes I create an additional area light on the opposite side of the first one. If you like to have more than one area light you should disable the shadow of the light with lower intensity. Too many shadows are confusing and really ugly in a rendering. Make a rendering. You should have the result of "image 9".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_11.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_11_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 9 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">This is how I normally render objects with no reflections. If you have an object with reflective material you need to do a few more steps. Let's see why (chrome and other materials are in another FDA tutorial). If you create an object made of chrome and you go to make a rendering you will have the result of "image 10".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_12.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_12_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 10 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">We can have a better result with a few more steps...Let's create two big boxes. like on "image 11".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_13.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_13_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 11 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Create a white self-illuminated material and apply it to the boxes. If you make a rendering you will see a big difference between "image 10 and 12".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_14.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_14_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 12 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The reflection of this boxes are giving the impression of two light sources like windows or big white panels which are used also in the field of professional photography. You can notice that image 10 is a little bit darker than image 12 even I did not change the light settings. Why this ?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Whenever you enable final gather you will notice that self illuminated objects are able to create light. The bigger your self-illuminated object, the brighter the surface close to it will be. That's why the rendering in image 12 is a bit brighter.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Be careful with the size of the 2 boxes, don't make them too big and don't place them too close to the teapot, otherwise you will create too bright areas.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">At this point you can do a final rendering. This means you must set all settings to the maximum values, in this way you will have a perfect rendering. In the render panel (image 6) set Minimum samples per pixel "4", maximum "16". If you change the BOX filter to "Mitchell" your rendering will be a bit sharper. The minimum size of a final rendering should be 1024*768 pixels ( bigger is of course better). Don't forget to increase the shadow samples (area light sampling) to 32 or better 64, in this way your shadows will be perfect. Put in final gather sample slot 300, if this is not enough put 400.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now make your final rendering.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The result of "image 12" is already very good, but we can improve it. I also teach to my students that Photoshop is a tool which is able to improve a rendering in many different ways.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Let's apply a glow effect to our highlights ( in our case we will assign a glow effect to the reflected boxes on the teapot to give the impression that there is a lot of energy coming from the white panels). Select the "magic wand tool" to create a mask on the brightest parts (which are in this case the white boxes) of the teapot surface like on "image 13".</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_15.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_15_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 13 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now press on your keyboard CTRL+C and than CTRL+V (copy and paste). You will see in the layer panel (F7) that automatically you have created a new layer on which there is only the masked part of the teapot (image 14).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_16.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_16_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 14 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now make a left double mouse click on the blue bar of the new layer. You will enable a window (layer style panel) with really great tools (try them, they are really interesting). Choose "OUTER glow" and change the yellow glow color to white. Now select the size slider and move it to the right side. Now you have a very nice glow effect on the teapot.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Another very interesting effect that you can create on a image is a Depth of field effect (DOF). In this way you can simulate a sharp focus point on the teapot. The part of the object which is far away will be a bit blurred (like in photography).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">First of all we must fuse the background image (original rendering) with the glow effect layer. Just go to "layer" and select "flatten image" (image 15).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_17.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_17_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 15 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Now make a right mouse click on the layer and choose "duplicate layer" (image 16).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_18.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_18_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 16 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">In this way you will have two layers, one is the perfect copy of the other. Apply on the copy a gaussian blur effect (image 17).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_19.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_19_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 17 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">The last step is very important. Choose the "eraser tool" and delete the part of the image which should be sharp (image 18).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Try to use a soft brush and set it to opacity 60.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">You can create also with 3D Studio Max a "depth of field effect" (DOF), and a glare effect with the Mental Ray "glare shader". But the PhotoShop solution is much more faster.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><img class="round_img_bk" src="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_20.jpg" /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><a class="bbluelink" href="http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/lighting_with_mental_ray/lighting_mentalray_20_l.jpg" style="color: #0033ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">[Image 18 - Click Here for Larger Image]</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">That's it:)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.</span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-45059284800016275382011-06-27T08:47:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:47:05.595-07:00Using VRay Global Illumination GI (Realistic Lighting)<div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">This short tutorial on how to use <strong>VRay's Global Illumination</strong> feature will show you one method for creating realistic looking lighting for a scene. VRay is a very powerful external render engine for Max made by <a href="http://www.chaosgroup.com/software/vray/" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chaos Group</a>. VRay has many features including the ability to to physically accurate full global illumination, advanced material shaders and enhancements for speeding up rendering time. You can check the <a href="http://www.chaosgroup.com/software/vray/features/" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Chaos Group</a> website to learn more about the various VRay features.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">This is an intermediate level tutorial and it will not explore any modelling techniques, you will have to create a simple scene with a few objects laying around to follow this tutorial.</div><div align="center" style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img alt="Using VRay Global Illumination (GI) For Creating Realistic Lighting" border="0" height="480" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/index_hall.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="640" /></div><h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 29, 48); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Assigning V-Ray As The Max renderer Engine</h2><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Start 3DS Max and assign V-Ray as the renderer engine. To do this access the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Render Scene</span> window by hitting <span class="menu-key-highlight">F10</span>, scroll down to the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Assign Renderer</span> rollout and expand it by clicking once on it, then click on the <span class="menu-key-highlight">"..."</span> button next to the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Production</span> field and select <span class="menu-key-highlight">V-Ray</span> from the list.<br />
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<img alt="Render Scene Window" border="0" height="489" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/001.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="356" /></div><h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 29, 48); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Creating and Setting Up the Lights</h2><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Access the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Modify</span> tab and go through <span class="menu-key-highlight">light>VRay Light</span> to start creating VRay lights. The number of VRay lights that you will need for a scene will depend on how big it is, for our project here I am going to use <span class="menu-key-highlight">six</span> <span class="menu-key-highlight">VRay lights,</span> I placed them on the inner upper part of the box, in other words, on the ceiling, the light always go there, right?<br />
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<img height="202" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/002.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="171" /> <img alt="VRay on Scene" border="0" height="202" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/003.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="555" /></div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Access the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Parameters</span> rollout to change the default settings of all the VRay light you added to the scene, I applied the changes illustrated in the image below.<br />
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<img alt="VRay Light Parameters" height="513" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/004.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="176" /></div><h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 29, 48); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Setting up the Render Configuration</h2><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Once all the lights are fixed in the scene, open the the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Render Scene</span> window by hitting <span class="menu-key-highlight">F10</span>. Access the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Render</span> tab to turn <span class="menu-key-highlight">off</span> the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Defaults Lights</span> - this lets us deal with VRay Light for light calculations in render time only.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img alt="VRay Scene Colnfiguration" height="329" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/005.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="456" /></div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Scroll down to the <span class="menu-key-highlight">VRay-Indirect Illumination GI</span> rollout, activate the GI feature by checking the <span class="menu-key-highlight">On</span> button, and then change the value of the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Second Bounces</span> to <span class="menu-key-highlight">0.9</span> and set the<span class="menu-key-highlight">GI engine</span> to <span class="menu-key-highlight">Light cache,</span> as illustrated in the image below.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img alt="V-Ray Indirect Illumination GI" height="329" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/006.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="456" /></div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Scroll down and look for the <span class="menu-key-highlight">V-Ray-Irradiance Map</span> rollout and apply the settings illustrated below.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img height="329" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/007.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="456" /></div><div class="tutorial-notice" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfdeea; background-image: url(http://www.republicofcode.com/styles/images/tutorial_notice.jpg); background-origin: initial; background-position: 17px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 14px; padding-top: 14px;"><strong>Irradiance</strong> is a function defined for any point in the 3D space and it represents the light arriving at this point from all possible directions. In general, irradiance is different for every point and in every direction. You can learn more about <strong>Irradiance map</strong> from the <a href="http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150R1/render_params_advancedimap.htm" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Irradiance map - online Chaos Group help file</a>.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Look for the <span class="menu-key-highlight">V-Ray-Light Cache</span> rollout, and check <span class="menu-key-highlight">Show calc. phase</span> option as illustrated in the image below.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img alt="VRay - Light Cache" height="329" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/008.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="456" /></div><div class="tutorial-notice" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cfdeea; background-image: url(http://www.republicofcode.com/styles/images/tutorial_notice.jpg); background-origin: initial; background-position: 17px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(189, 203, 214); border-top-left-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.92em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 14px; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 14px; padding-top: 14px;"><strong>Light Cache</strong>: is a technique used for approximating the global illumination in a scene in order to create a clean soft shadow. For more info please check <a href="http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150R1/render_params_lightmap.htm" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Light cache - online Chaos Group help file</a>.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Move on to the <span class="menu-key-highlight">VRay-rQMC Sampler</span> rollout and increase the value for the <span class="menu-key-highlight">Global subdivs multiplier</span> to <span class="menu-key-highlight">2.2</span>. Then go down to the <span class="menu-key-highlight">VRay-Color Mapping</span> rollout and apply the changes illustrated in the image below.</div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img alt="VRay rQMC Sampler and Color Mapping" height="329" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/009.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="456" /></div><h2 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 29, 48); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Conclusion</h2><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">Here is my end result which for the demand of my client has low intensity of lighting without texture.</div><div align="center" style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/3ds/vray_global_illumination/index_hall.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="640" /></div><div style="color: #1c1c1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.93em; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px;">I hope that this tutorial will help you to start using the VRay render engine, make sure that you experiment with the different settings to discover new possibilities. Please feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:sunrise300@gmail.com" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;">sunrise300@gmail.com</a> for any suggestions or questions, you can also alternatively post at the <a href="http://www.republicofcode.com/forum" style="color: #3972cd; text-decoration: none;">Oman3D Forum</a>.</div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-43036099908073600302011-06-27T08:44:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:44:28.129-07:00Character lighting using fake image based lighting (fakeibl) script<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"></span><br />
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</ul></div><div class="tab_content" id="tab_content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #676767; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(78, 78, 78); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(78, 78, 78); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(78, 78, 78); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Download the 'fakeibl' script from <a href="http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/scripts-plugins/lighting/c/fake-image-based-lighting-ibl" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank" title="'fakeibl'">here</a></span>.<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Open the scene the run the script. A dome (nurb sphere) will be created.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">The first step is to select an image as the environment map. The color of the lights on the dome will be changed regarding to the selected image.</span></span><br />
<img alt="2-creating_dome" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/118/578/118578/big/2-creating_dome.jpg?1292769771" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">If your scene is far from the origin, select an object in your scene a hit "Select Object to align dome" button. The dome will be aligned with the selected object.</span><br />
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<img alt="2-creating_dome2" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/684/117684/big/2-creating_dome2.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Now zoom out to see the dome and rotate the dome considering the image and light direction on your image. If you are not able to see the map on the dome, press '6' then select the 'High Quality Rendering' from renderer menu.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> Make sure the 'Dome primary visibility' checkbox is enabled.</span><br />
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<img alt="3-image_on_dome" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/685/117685/big/3-image_on_dome.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Set the 'Dome segment' slider on 5. Now we have the skydome with 5 segments and 22 lights. More segment create more light and better quality but higher render time.</span><br />
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<img alt="3-adjusting_segments" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/688/117688/big/3-adjusting_segments.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Before adjusting the lights, it's recommended to adjust the ambient occlusion layer. In 'Render preview' press 'Render Ambient Occlusion' button. You will see the ambient occlusion layer rendered and the setting window will be automatically opened, so you can adjust the setting. Make sure that Final gather and Global Illumination are not enabled. </span><br />
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<img alt="4-AO" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/686/117686/big/4-AO.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Now for adjusting the lights on the dome, I suggest to first adjust the lower lights intensity (bounce lights) then go for adjusting the upper lights. Set the intensity of the upper lights to zero and press 'Render' button on 'Render Preview'. You will see the scene is rendered and ambient occlusion layer will be composited over it.</span><br />
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<img alt="5-bounce_lights" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/118/579/118579/big/5-bounce_lights.jpg?1292769818" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Now adjust the intensity of the upper lights.</span><br />
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<img alt="6-sky_lights" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/690/117690/big/6-sky_lights.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">The AO shader window will be automatically opened and by adjusting the 'Out Matte Opacity' option you can adjust the opacity of the ambient occlusion layer.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"><br />
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Notice that the composition of ambient occlusion is only a preview. For final rendering you need to render AO and the other layers and composite them in composting softwares. </span><br />
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<img alt="render_preview" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/697/117697/big/render_preview.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Now you can add key light as your main light source.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;"> You can turn off the dome lights using the 'Lights on/off' checkbox so you can adjust the key light correctly. Then turn it on again.<br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">You can also enable the 'Camera exposure on/off' button to connect the 'mia_exposure_simple' lens shader to the active camera and control the exposure. </span><br />
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<img alt="8-Cam_exp" src="http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/117/696/117696/big/8-Cam_exp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" /><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">'Dobby' character has been modeled by Julian Johnson-Mortime (<a href="http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/tutorials/rendering-lighting/gi/c/www.johnson-mortimer.co.uk" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank">www.johnson-mortimer.co.uk</a>) and rigged by Joel Anderson (<a href="http://www.joel3d.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank">www.joel3d.com</a>).</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">I would like to thank Joel Anderson to let me use 'Dobby' character for this tutorial.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">Special thanks to Hafiizh Hamid (<a href="http://www.creativecrash.com/users/hafiizh-hamid" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #cccccc; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;" target="_blank">www.creativecrash.com/users/hafiizh-hamid</a>) for his great helps and supports.</span><br />
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1;">I appreciate any comments and bug reports...</span></div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-18413823903715182632011-06-27T08:34:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:35:43.337-07:00Best V-Ray settings - Antialiasing and Color mapping<div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">This tutorial tells about the settings of the <em>V-Ray tab</em> of the<em> Render Scene: (F10)</em> window and answers the following questions:</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>- What are the best universal settings for V-Ray interior rendering?</em></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>- How to setup Vray for good exterior renderings?</em></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>- What is the optimal settings combination for quality V-Ray product visualization?</em></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>- How to make the basic start AA settings setup for Vray render?</em></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">Universality myths</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Hi everybody.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In this tutorial, we will look into the one of the fundamental and, probably, the most controversial and frequently raised subjects in the 3d rendering. It is the rendering engine setup. We will setup the <em>V-Ray renderer</em> for <em>3ds Max</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Among the many of 3d artists, especially the beginners, the two contrast myths about universal <em>V-Ray</em> setups exist.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">One believes there are some simple setups, which are carefully hided from them by professionals by keeping the tuning secrets in a strict confidence. Only the chosen people know the secret checkboxes and values that allow creating realistic 3d renderings, which hit the awards and admiration of the all observers. That there supposedly are some settings, just like the "magic wand", which by checking some ticks in covert places lets to have the amazing results despite the actual quality of the 3d models, correct lighting setup or beauty and realism of the present scene composition.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Other think there is no any magic and all you need is the long and difficult work with the renderer parameters for each new scene. That firstly you need to run the rendering in a test mode, with the visible samples of the <em>V-Ray sampler </em>on and, by a sample map, long and boringly try the optimal settings to soften and eliminate <em>aliasing</em>; to loose the much time for trying than to start the competently tuned rendering. Then to begin the <em>Irradiance map</em> calculation with the enabled <em>Show calc. phase</em> option and to look intently at the <em>Irradiance map sample passes</em>, supposedly controlling the calculation process and many other shamanistic superstitions :)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Curiously enough, but there are no really universal one-size-fits-all setups. Like, actually, the separate settings for interior and exterior as well. But, there are some hints and tricks, which you will learn from this tutorial and there is nothing difficult in them and they all will be explained.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Start V-Ray settings</span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">At first, we have to make clear that there are starter settings, that may be beginning of the any rendering, for not to draw our attention each time to any possibly incorrect options. We got to fully concentrate on the actual scene setup. Only in some situations, when the rendering has some parasitic artifacts, we need some slight tuning to get rid of them. This is true not for<em>V-Ray</em> only, but is an absolute concept for any rendering application. To tell the truth, the correctly set lighting with a good scene geometry almost never give the unwanted surprises on the rendering, and in most cases you don't need to set anything but final resolution.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Just this like starter settings, that are really universal in 80% of situations, that truly simplify your work and embellish your renderings, will be discussed in this tutorial.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="Getting_started" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">Getting started</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">So... Press the <em>F10</em> button to bring the <em>Render Scene </em>window up.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Similarly, we can go to the <em>Rendering</em> option of the main <em>3ds Max</em> menu, and choose the first <em>Render</em> item from the appeared there list.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Now we have the one of the most important tools and interfaces of the any 3d rendering artist opened.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Before beginning the work on the setting up <em>V-Ray</em>, we surely have to set it as a default rendering engine.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Just go to the tab named <em>Common</em> and open the <em>Assign Renderer</em> rollout. The items of this rollout allow setting the rendering engine for rendering, displaying the materials in <em>Material Editor</em>, and the renderer for the specific real-time or pseudo real-time engine for rendering the scene right in the viewport.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Click the ellipsis (...) button near the <em>Production</em> and near the <em>Material Editor</em> (if the lock button is released) and choose <em>V-Ray</em>from the showed list.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 520px;"><img alt="3ds max assign renderer rollout, which lets user to choose different rendering engines for different rendering purposes." height="261" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-assign-renderer-production-material-editor-defaults.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="512" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Frame Buffer rollout of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. Here present the three options and the one Save as Defaults button. The options are Production, Material Editor, and ActiveShade.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">To set the <em>V</em><em>-</em><em>Ray</em> as a default rendering engine and to not do this each time 3ds Max starts, surely we need to press the lower big <em>Save</em><em>as</em><em>Defaults</em> button<em>.</em></div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Frame_Buffer_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Frame Buffer rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The first thing that should be done to begin the actual <em>V-Ray renderer</em> setup is the activation of the specialized <em>V-Ray Frame Buffer</em>, which completely replaces and excels by functionality the integrated <em>standard 3ds max frame buffer</em>. It may be found at the same named rollout of the <em>V-Ray Render scene</em> window. To enable <em>V-Ray Frame Buffer</em>, the option <em>Enable built-in frame buffer</em>must be checked.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The using of the <em>V-Ray Frame Buffer</em> greatly eases the work with <em>the V-Ray</em> by its functionality and convenience, as well as eliminates the possible misunderstandings with gamma correction.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In addition, it is important to leave active the <em>Get resolution from MAX</em> function. This step can free us from the need to constantly go to the <em>V-Ray</em> tab, rollout <em>V</em><em>-</em><em>Ray</em><em>:: </em><em>Frame</em><em>Buffer</em> and set there a needed rendering resolution.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 506px;"><img alt="vray frame buffer setups, it lets us to enable vray frame buffer and get resolution from max" height="385" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-built-in-frame-buffer-get-resolution-from-max.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="498" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Frame Buffer rollout of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. Here present the two options: Enable built-in Frame Buffer, Render to memory frame buffer; Show last VFB button; and three sections. They are the Output resolution with the Get resolution from MAX checkbox, V-Ray image file and Split render channels.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The <em>V-Ray raw image</em> and <em>Split render channels</em> are responsible for forming the formats, which needed for postproduction using the compositing software, and they will be learned from the separate tutorial on rendering the render elements passes and compositing the cool realistic final image from them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Anyway, the postproduction using the <em>Render elements</em> is an unusual way to obtain the final rendering and it has nothing to do with the universal <em>V-Ray</em> settings. That is why we may leave these functions this time.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Global_switches_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Global switches rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The next in line is a <em>V</em><em>-</em><em>Ray</em><em>:: </em><em>Global</em><em>switches</em> rollout, it contains the parameters of the global scene influence. They are: presence or disabling the <em>displacement</em>, <em>reflections</em>, <em>refractions</em>, old <em>cameras</em>, <em>light sources</em>, <em>Sky map</em> compatibility, <em>global material override</em> (look the <a href="http://renderstuff.com/making-shaded-wireframe-rendering-cg-tutorial/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">Shaded wireframe rendering tutorial</a>), and so on.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">This rollout is configured correctly originally and there is nothing needs to be changed. The one exiting parameter that may get one's attention is the <em>Reflection/refraction</em> parameter. This option is responsible for the global activation or deactivation the reflections and refractions in the scenematerials. Even if the materials have the tuned reflections or refractions, the deactivation of this parameter will lead to complete absence of those.</div><div class="img_container left_al" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; float: left; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 12px !important; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 507px;"><img alt="vray global swiches let to set the default lights, reflection and refraction max depth and disabling" height="364" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-global-switches-default-lights-reflection-refraction-max-depth.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="499" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Global switches rollout of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. Here present the section Geometry, Lighting section with the Default ligts option, section Indirect illumination, Material section with the Reflection/refraction checkbox and Max depth on-off spinner, Raytracing and Compatibility sections.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">But, so interest is not in the very parameter, as in their additional <em>Max depth</em>function. This function globally sets the number of the <em>secondary reflections</em> or<em>refractions</em> in the scene. It is similar to the so-named parameter in the <em>VRayMtl</em>material. Using this function, we can lower the maximum number of the repeated reflections and refractions of the ray that is reflected of refracted by the scene objects. Such a measure may reduce the <em>rendering</em>time of the visualization of the reflecting surfaces, practically not affecting their quality, especially on the high <em>glossiness</em>level materials.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Yet it is worth to remember that in the complex scenes with the number of the transparent objects this may lead to appearing of the artifacts, such as rendering the material's <em>Exit color</em> instead of transparency. In such cases, the <em>secondary reflections</em> may be set locally on the each exact material.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In addition to <em>Reflection/refraction</em>, in this rollout is another key parameter that often misleads the beginner 3d artists. This parameter named <em>Default lights</em>. Many newcomers, by the "good" advice from other users, that not know much about the purpose of this parameter, always try to remove the checkmark from the <em>Default lights</em> checkbox. Thereby they try to disable the standard light sources of the <em>3ds Max</em>, which by default are always in the scene for the presence of nominal illumination in an empty scene or a scene that does not contain light sources.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Default lights are needed for the <em>viewport</em> and <em>rendering</em>, without light sources, set manually by the user, to look not solid black, but with the geometry of objects, already lit by default auxiliary light sources. However, the property of the default secondary lights of <em>3ds Max</em> is such that they automatically shut off when the any source of light are in the scene. If we create at least one light source in the scene, the default lights will be disconnected immediately. A special case is when the scene is really having no sources of direct light and it is fully illuminated by the secondary illumination. But this case is not even a rare, it is probably unique, and this may be an exterior visualization, in which the diffuse glow of the sky is simulated by the special parametric <em>HDRI</em> map named <em>VRaySky</em>. <em>VRaySun</em>, which is a source of direct light itself, manages it and its presence in the scene shut off the default <em>3ds Max lights</em> again. The deactivation of <em>Default lights</em> option in the <em>V-Ray:: Global switches</em> rollout is needed in very rare cases only, when you really plan to illuminate the scene by a secondary illumination only, without any sources of direct light in it. This is a very unusual situation and to worry about this option is not worth our attention, we will leave it as it is set by default.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Image_sampler_Antialiasing_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Image sampler (Antialiasing) rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The next parameters rollout is a <em>V</em><em>-</em><em>Ray</em><em>:: </em><em>Image</em><em>sampler</em><em> (</em><em>Antialiasing</em><em>)</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">For making clear what kind of a rollout is it and what is it responsible for, we certainly need to introduce the concept of<em>aliasing</em>. Only after understanding what <em>aliasing</em> is, we can understand what the <em>antialiasing</em> is needed for.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In the computer graphics, <em>aliasing</em> is a phenomenon that shows up in a form of jaggedness when converting the <em>vector</em> shape to <em>raster</em>.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 800px;"><img alt="aliasing is the effect appeared after rendering the vector shapes into the raster format" height="438" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vector-aliasing-comparsion-jags.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="800" /><br />
The presentation of the aliasing phenomenon. There are noticable jaggs at the right yellow shape, which is the rasterized version of the left vector one. 1) comparsion of the half-filled pixels presentation; 2) comparsion of the insignificantly filled pixels presentation both in the vector and raster formats.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">On the above figure, the each white transparent line contoured square represents the single <em>pixel</em>. To the left we can see the ideal vector figure combined with the pixel grid for better clearness. To the right is the same figure, but <em>rasterized</em>, that is described as the pixels. Pixel is a square of the one color. Notice that the ideal left shape on the border with the background occupy only the parts of a pixels, while the usual raster image can hold the pixels of a single color only, without any gradients or polychromy within one.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">As mentioned above, a pixel is a square of one colour. During rasterization of vector shape, the colour of the obtained square is determined by the colour of its geometrical center. Returning to our example, when the vector shape intersects the pixel at its center (1), it will be fully painted in yellow. If the geometrical center of the pixel will be background's black, it will be painted completely black (2).</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">As you may know, the all three dimensional objects are vector in some sense, as in fact they do not have pixel resolution and can be rendered to any size raster images, and their shape is described by mathematical formulas rather than by the individual pixel's colors array.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">You may try to lay a circle on floor with the baby bricks at home. Then you certainly would able to see that this like circle can be observed as a relatively smooth figure only from the far distance, while being jagged from the closer view. The same thing happens when we try to describe curvilinear vector shape with the square pixels. Pixels are the same bricks, and even with the best will in the world, the pixel-described curves will surely have jags. It is the presence of these jags is called <strong>aliasing</strong>. Certainly, the higher resolution, the greater the number of pixels we have to describe this shape and the smaller jags are, because the size of one jag will decrease relatively to the complete shape size. However, even much higher resolution cannot fully prevent from the <em>aliasing</em> effect. Though, in this way we can carry the relative pixel size to the so, that it will not be noticeable for the eye, and thus eliminate the unpleasant effect.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 800px;"><img alt="the increasing the rendering resoluting can reduce the visible aliasing" height="454" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/antialiasing-off-comparsion-low-high-resolution.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="800" /><br />
The higher resolution smothing effect. The higher the resolution is, the smaller the jags and the rasterized shape looks smoother.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">On the left, for clarity, is the same rasterized shape as on the previous figure, and on the right is also a rasterized shape, but with four times more pixels. It is easy to notice that on the right, the jaggedness less distinct, because of more and smaller pixels. Describing the vector shape with even greater number of pixels, the jaggedness could become even less visible.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Unfortunately, it is not always rational to produce rasterization of vector shapes in ultra-high resolution. That is why, to eliminate <em>aliasing</em>, the <em>anti-aliasing</em> mechanism was developed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In short, the essence of <em>anti-aliasing</em> is that the pixel-jags painted not in the exact color of shape or background behind it, but averaged by coloring into a mixed middle color of both figure and background. Thus, this visually blurs the sharp edges of the figure. At the same time, the pixels of the shape itself and the adjacent background pixels are also averaged.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 800px;"><img alt="anti-aliasing algorithm smoothes the jagged rasterized shape" height="438" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/antialiasing-comparsion-with-without.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="800" /><br />
Antialiasing technique lets to have smooth shapes without noticeable jags on the rasterized pixel-presented image. To the left is the rasterized shape with the sharp edges, the the right is the same smoothed antialiased one.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">On the left is the same rasterized shape, and on the right is the rasterized shape with <em>antialiasing</em>. It is easy to see that figure on the right, in consequence of the apparent blurring of pixels, looks much smoother and more curvilinear. Although, in fact it consists of the same pixels, but averaged slightly in color, thus creating the effect of transparency and little blur.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Rasterization process, i.e. the gathering the samples of colors from the vector shape to bitmap pixels is called <em>sampling</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>Antialiasing</em> process uses the so-called <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">supersampling</a></em> method. Its working principle is that to determine the pixel color, not one color sample from the center is taken, but the pixel is divided into several parts, named <em>sub-pixels</em>, and color samples are taken from them all. Thus, pixel becomes not of just the shape or background color, but of the current mixed color of all<em>subpixels</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The reverse process to <em>supersampling</em>, when to determine the color of few pixels just one point of vector shape in their averaged geometric center is taken, called <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersampling" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">undersampling</a></em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>V-Ray</em> has several algorithms for the averaging pixel color at the boundaries of curved shapes. They are the <em>Fixed rate sampler</em>, <em>Adaptive DMC sampler</em> and <em>Adaptive subdivision sampler</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">That is to select the one of those algorithms of <em>antialiasing</em>, the <em>V</em><em>-</em><em>Ray</em><em>:: </em><em>Image </em><em>sampler</em><em> (</em><em>Antialiasing</em><em>)</em> rollout needed for. In addition, it is used for a choosing the <em>antialiasing filter</em> method.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="Fixed_Adaptive_DMC_Adaptive_subdivision_antialiasing_methods" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">Fixed image sampler, Adaptive DMC image sampler and Adaptive subdivision image sampler V-Ray antialiasing methods</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">When one of the antialiasing algorithm has been chosen, an additional rollout with its parameters appears, they are <em>V-Ray:: Fixed image sampler</em>, <em>V-Ray:: Adaptive DMC image sampler</em> and <em>V-Ray:: Adaptive subdivision image sampler</em>, accordingly.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Fixed</strong> is the simplest algorithm, which is roughly selects color samples relating on the sub-pixels colors, without any adaptivity. Its only option is <em>Subdivs</em> and it determines the number of pixels <em>subdivisions</em>, which will determine the final pixel color. The number of used sub-pixels is equal to the square of the <em>Subdivs</em> value. <em>Fixed rate sampler</em> is a brute force that has no adaptability in the calculation of the number of subpixels needed to form pixel colors. This algorithm calculates each case of <em>AA</em>with the same care, regardless of conditions. Therefore, this algorithm should be applied only in special cases, when the scene have number of <em>DOF</em> or <em>blur</em> effects, highly detailed textures and fine details, on which artefacts appear, from which you can not get rid of in any other way. Sometimes it happens that the calculation of adaptability of other algorithms may take longer than calculation with a fixed value. However, in other cases, for the lack of adaptation to the conditions, we have to pay by big time rendering when using the <em>Fixed image sampler</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Adaptive DMC</strong> in essence is the same as <em>Fixed</em>, just with adaptability. The essence of his adaptability is the automatic determination of the required number of subpixels for each pixel separately, rather than use a fixed value, as in the case of the Fixed rate sampler.</div><div class="img_container right_al" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; float: right; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 512px;"><img alt="Vray image sampling (antialiasing) setups type antialiasing filer adaptive subdivision" height="347" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-image-sampler-adaptive-subdivision-min-max-rate-clr-thresh-nrm.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="512" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Image Sampler (Antialiasing) and V-Ray:: Adaptive subdivision image sampler rollouts of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. First rollout has the image sampler section with the image sampler types selector; Antialiasing filter section withe On checkbox and the type of filter drop-down list with the Size parameter. Second rollout consists of Min. rate, Max. rate, Clr thresh, Nrm thresh spinners and Object outline, Randomize samples, show samples checkboxes.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The required number of sub-pixels, by default is selected based on parameters set in the <em>V-Ray:: DMC Sampler</em> rollout. Alternatively, based on the <em>Clr tresh</em>parameter, if checkbox <em>Use DMC sampler thresh </em>is unchecked. The lower the value of<em>Clr tresh</em> parameter, the lower is the adaptability, higher the quality of anti-aliasing and longer the render time. The parameters <em>Min subdivs</em> and <em>Max subdivs</em>determine the minimum and maximum number of each pixel subdivisions, depending on the required amount of adaptability.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>Adaptive DMC sampler </em>may be applied in the same cases as <em>Fixed</em>, but when the scene has less problematic areas. This will save time rendering at the same level of quality, as that is with a fixed number of subpixels. In some cases, the <em>Adaptive DMC sampler</em> turns out to be even faster than the more technologically sophisticated<em>Adaptive subdivision sampler</em>, which will be discussed a bit further. For example, that is in some scenes with <em>Motion blur</em>. However, is not true for all scenes and finding of its benefits can only be done experimentally. Such experiments on changing the filter and selection of best option would be justified only by the multiframe <em>animation setup</em>, where each additional minute of rendering of each frame can result hours or even days in result.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Adaptive subdivision</strong> is the most advanced adaptive anti-aliasing algorithm in V-Ray. Its main difference from the <em>Adaptive DMC</em> algorithm is a possible to use not only the <em>supersampling</em>, but also the <em>undersampling</em> on unimportant parts of the generated images, thus saving the lion's share of <em>antialiasing</em> computing time. <em>Min. rate</em> and Max <em>rate</em> parameters determine the minimum and maximum values of <em>undersampling</em> and <em>supersampling</em>. These values determine the number of <em>samples</em>, i.e. color samples used to determine the color of produced pixels. In particular, if the rate setting is <em>-1</em>, it means that to calculate the color of the four (!) neighboring pixels the one sample is used. A value of <em>0</em> means that each pixel uses one sample, and the value of rate, equal to 1, means that for determining the color of one pixel, the four samples are used, etc. Mathematically speaking, the rate value is the power of the number 4 in the final number of subpixel samples of a particular pixel color of the rasterized vector shape. The <em>Color thresh.</em> parameter is responsible for automatic selection of the desired <em>Min. rate</em> and <em>Max. rate</em>, as in the <em>Adaptive DMC sampler</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Another feature of the <em>Adaptive subdivision sampler</em> is the presence of additional parameters that control the automatic selection of the needed <em>Min. rate</em> and <em>Max. rate</em>. These are the <em>Object outline</em> and <em>Nrm tresh</em>. Where <em>Object outline</em> controls the quality of antialiasing on the borders of the object - namely, using the maximum <em>Max. rate</em> supersampling value, and <em>Nrm tresh.</em>enhances the quality of sampling within objects, depending on variations in the direction of adjacent normals, that is, small and sharp details on the object.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Randomize samples</strong> function allows you to randomly change the location of anti-aliasing samples. Nominally they are on a strict grid-like pattern. While smoothing the horizontal or nearly horizontal, and vertical or nearly vertical lines on the visualization, the strict periodic arrangement of samples may lead to parasitic straight or step-like bands. To avoid these artifacts, it is sometimes useful to do color sampling slightly chaotic; it is for this purpose <em>Randomize samples</em> setting is needed for. Illustrative examples of how render engine behaves with the turned on or off <em>Randomize samples</em>, you can see at <a href="http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/examples_image_sampler.htm#ex7" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">Image samplers examples: Randomized antialiasing</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The <em>Randomize samples</em> option in universal V-Ray settings should be left active.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Additional information on the purposes of the other <em>Image Sampler (Antialiasing)</em>parameters may be found in the<a href="http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/render_params_imagesampler.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">corresponding V-Ray Help section</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>Adaptive subdivision sampler</em> is the most flexible, most technologically advanced algorithm of <em>antialiasing</em> used in V-Ray. It gives the greatest computing speed with the best quality of the image. That is it should be used as <em>AA (AntiAliasing)</em> default algorithm in universal settings of V-Ray. Only if there are artefacts on the fine details, and they are not removable by other ways, the less adaptive and less flexible <em>Adaptive DMC</em> or even a rough <em>Fixed </em>algorithm should be used.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Despite the existence of special algorithms that reduce the effect of aliasing, in practice, the most preferred and rational choice is NOT to increase the number of subpixels by banal raising high the AA settings. But to decrease an aliasing by increasing the resolution of the final image while using the slight AA. The essence of this trick is that when the resolution is decreasing, the relative aliasing jags are also getting smaller, and a slight AA removes them. High resolution and a small amount of AA give excellent results, far surpassing the ones, which can be obtained by simply overstating the parameters of AA. But the most interesting thing is that the calculation in high resolution, at least a half times greater than required, would take less time than rendering the image of the same quality, but initially with the required resolution and high AA settings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">It is so appropriate values of Adaptive subdivision sampler are the ones that are set in it by default. That is why in the universal V-Ray starting configuration they should not be changed by overstating or understating. They must be left as they are initially.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="Antialiasing_filters" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">Antialiasing filters</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Another important parameter is the <em>Image Sampler antialiasing filter</em>, it can be chosen from the <em>Antialiasing filter</em> section, in the<em>V-Ray:: Image sampler (Antialiasing) </em>rollout.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">V-Ray renderer supports almost all <em>standard filters</em> of <em>3ds Max</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">When the <em>Image Sampler</em> calculated the required amount of sub-pixels, the next process is the conversion of information to pixels. Color of the pixels can be formed immediately by averaging the color of all samples, belonging to a particular pixel, or filtered by a special algorithm that makes a certain adjustment in the formation of pixel colors from the subpixels. These algorithms are the <em>antialiasing filters</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">To select one of the <em>filters</em> is sufficient to mark the checkbox <em>On</em> and select from the drop down list the desired <em>AA filter</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><em>3ds Max</em> has many filters with different algorithms. The most popular, and even causing "holy wars" among beginners and even experienced visualizers, are the <em>Catmull-Rom</em> and the <em>Mitchell-Netravali</em>, named after the developers of current algorithms.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">These wars do not cease to this day, stirring up the violent disputes about which filter is better and which of them should be used for their renderings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">With the application of <em>Catmull-Rom</em> or <em>Mitchell-Netravali</em> filter, the received image becomes little sharper, as if view focuses a little on it.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">For example, <em>Catmull-Rom</em> filter makes very sharp edges of objects, sometimes thus improving the general form of rendering, but it is not significantly affecting their internal parts.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">So, if you want to raise up the sharpness, for example in <em>Photoshop</em>, to the entire image including the inside of objects and not just at its edges, the unwanted defects in the form of ultra-sharp boundaries of objects may appear, what will look unnatural and ugly.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Another very significant problem of <em>AA filters</em> is that they work in <em>RGB</em> space only, unable to perform properly rasterization with <em>HDR-rendering</em>. Performing the calculation of pixel color from the sub-pixel floating-point information, the computation errors arise and they seen as awful artifacts. They are distinctly visible on the borders of bright objects, for example on objects with<em>VRayLightMtl</em> materials or visible light sources, such as <em>VRayLight</em>. Moreover, another defects, which even more depressing - the reflections of those bright lights on the reflecting materials in the form of evident black borders around reflection spots.</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 800px;"><img alt="antialiasing filter off, catmull-rom and mitchell-netravali" height="378" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/anti-aliasing-filter-off-catmull-rom-mitchell-netravali-frog-eye.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="800" /><br />
Comparsion of the three key Antialiasing Filter methors in V-Ray. They are Catmull-Rom, Mitchell-Netravali and wihout AA filter.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Look closely at the image of an eye of this frog (yeah, it's a frog :) ). To the left is the rendering, performed without the use of AA filter, in the middle the rendering with the AA filter <em>Catmull-Rom</em> and on the right the rendering with the AA filter <em>Mitchell-Netravali</em>. The green part of the object is an ordinary <em>VRayMtl</em>, yellow is a bright <em>VRayLightMtl</em>. The left image looks slightly blurred, but without any unwanted artifacts. Easy blurring of the left image is elementary solved by <em>sharpening</em> in <em>Photoshop</em>. At the same time, the middle and right images clearly show the sharp boundary in the form of a terrible multi-colored line between green and yellow materials. This disadvantage cannot be eliminated, unless by long and tedious retouching in a 2d editor, but ... What for?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Applying the AA filters greatly reduces the freedom of post-processing of the image, making it impossible to have high quality sharpness of desired extent manually.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In addition, the filters that add sharpness on the edges of objects, very amplify the spurious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">moiré</a> effect, even at high settings of an <em>Image sampler</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">It is for these reasons we should not use AA filters at all. Only in some cases, such as animation, where there is no possibility of adding sharpness to each of hundreds of frames by your hand, the use of AA filters is justified.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In the universal V-ray settings, the anti-aliasing filter should be completely disabled.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Environment_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Environment rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Next in line is <em>the V-Ray:: Environment</em> rollout.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">This rollout has important for rendering options that allow us to substitute GI glow of the environment, the reflection/refraction, and the refraction separately. These are the <em>GI Environment (skylight) override</em>, <em>Reflection/refraction environment override</em> and <em>Refraction environment override</em> parameters respectively.</div><div class="img_container right_al" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; float: right; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 511px;"><img alt="vray environment setup lets to set the GI skylight, reflaction refraction overrides" height="238" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-enironment-gi-skylight-override-reflection-refraction.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="511" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Environment rollout of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. Here present the GI Environment (skylight), Reflection/refraction environment and Reflection environment overrides sections.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The essence of these parameters is that, if necessary, we can put the right map to the appropriate slot, or specify the desired color, thereby replacing the map or color that is in the standard 3ds Max<em>Environment and Effects</em> menu.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Suppose we want to render a car in the exterior scene, and we want its body to mirror the clouds and surrounding buildings. All we need is to put into the<em>Reflection/refraction environment override</em>slot the corresponding spherical or cube map with the desired image and it will be reflected on the body, or rather on all reflecting materials, of the car. For more information on the panoramic and cubic maps, visit the <a href="http://renderstuff.com/creating-virtual-360-panorama-cg-tutorial/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">Making of virtual 360 panoramas</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The same can be done with global illumination of the scene.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Global light may be a simple fill lighting of one <em>solid color</em>,<em> bitmap RGB</em> or <em>HDR map</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Anyway, it is the feature of the some particular scene and the goals that its creator, so all the parameters of this rollout in universal V-Ray settings should be left intact, and changes needed only in special cases.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Color_mapping_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Color mapping rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The next <em>V-Ray:: Color mapping</em> rollout is a very important tool, which work got to know and understand each professional 3d rendering artist.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">There are the parameters responsible for the rendering <em>exposure</em> and <em>gamma correction</em> in this rollout.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Exposure</strong> is a term that came to computer graphics from <em>photography</em>. The exposure means the amount of light, which fell on the film during the shooting of photo. Photo can be well exposed, i.e. look good, underexposed - to be too dark and dull, and overexposed - to be overly bright. In computer graphics exposure means roughly the same thing - namely, the brightness and color saturation of generated images.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Gamma correction</strong> is a necessary correction and rendering images with a certain degree of nonlinearity of the gradient tones from dark to light. This feature is inherent to modern color information transmitting and displaying systems. This aspect can be controlled in the <em>Color mapping</em> of the render-engine V-Ray.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">V-Ray has many exposure control algorithms. They are <em>Linear multiply</em>, <em>Exponential</em>, <em>HSV exponential</em>, <em>Intensity exponential</em>,<em>Gamma correction</em>, <em>Intensity gamma</em>, and <em>Reinhard</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The most popular of these are the <em>Exponential</em> and <em>Linear multiply</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Exponential Color mapping</strong> algorithm outputs the brightness values of all image pixels exponentially. Its essence is that the illumination of the scene appears nonlinearly, with a little brighten of dark areas and darken very bright ones, so averaging the overall result, trying to display all levels of brightness in the limit of RGB colors. This algorithm allows to get rid of darkness and, at the same time, to eliminate overexposure of very bright areas, such as visible light sources or flashes on the scene geometry from them.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Another feature of an <em>Exponential</em> algorithm is that the color saturation of pixels is calculated based on their brightness.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In practice, this algorithm results very faded and unsaturated images, satisfying the necessary level of photorealism and presentable only in rare cases.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">As a rule, <em>Exponential Color mapping</em> can be suitable only for some interior renderings, where undertones are more important, rather than specific colors of individual objects.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">It is because of dullness and desaturation of the image, <em>Exponential Color mapping</em> completely unsuitable for presentable product rendering, where the representing for each color of the object, bright and saturated as much as possible, is important. For such rendering, the <em>Linear multiply Color mapping</em> algorithm is much better.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Linear multiply Color mapping</strong> algorithm is a linear algorithm that multiplies the each pixel color on its brightness. Thus, we obtain a linear, bright and vivid picture.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">However, because of its linearity, the use of this algorithm leads to strong and sometimes horrible overexposure in bright areas of the generated images, making it very unsuitable for middle-tone interior visualizations.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Theoretically, to correct the defect of <em>Exponential Color</em> mapping algorithm, namely the colorlessness of an image, and to approach saturation of the <em>Linear multiply Color mapping</em> algorithm, the <em>HSV exponential </em>algorithm was designed. However, in practice, it remains just as uncomfortable as the <em>Exponential</em> or <em>Linear multiply Color mapping</em> ones.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">There is another, not very popular, especially among beginner 3d artists, yet the most powerful and flexible algorithm for exposure control in the V-Ray, called <em>Reinhard Color mapping</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Reinhard Color mapping</strong> is a hybrid algorithm, ideally combining in itself the other two basic algorithms: the <em>Exponential</em> and<em>Linear</em>. It is this algorithm is able to give not overexposed, without the "nuclear" overbrights, and at the same time rich and vibrant presentable images, making renderings truly photo-realistic and tasty :)</div><div class="img_container" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 800px;"><img alt="difference of the behaivor of the exponentioal, linear multiply and reinhard color mapping algorithms" height="266" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/frog-three-renderings-diffuse-exponential-linear-multiply-reinhard.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="800" /><br />
The comparsion test of the three 3ds Max V-Ray color mapping algorithms. They are Exponential, Linear multiply and Reinhard. Each test sample has the original diffuse color rectangle.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">You can see the three images, created with the use of different color mapping algorithms.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">On the left is the <em>Exponential</em>, in the center is the <em>Linear multiply</em>, and to the right is <em>Reinhard color mapping</em>. Green rectangle on top of each example shows a sample of desired colors, which are in the <em>Diffuse</em> slot of a frog’s green <em>VRayMtl</em> material.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">It is easy to see that the left image is dim and pale, and even specially backlit scene background looks gray instead of white, despite the fact, that in the <em>Diffuse</em> slot of its material is pure white <em>RGB 255.255.255</em> color.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The middle image has a more lively appearance, the frog is bright and juicy, and the white background looks clean and white. However, compare the bright and oversaturated frog color with a rectangle sample. The disadvantage of this color mapping method is also obvious. Despite its richness, the picture turned out very overexposed.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Quite another thing is the right visualization. It looks nor dull, nor overexposed. The white background is really white. Look at the color sample; it exactly coincides with the color of the frog. This is precisely the result, which must be obtained. It is presentable and lively. Absolutely the same situation will occur at interior or exterior 3d rendering. This is thanks to the use of a good and adaptive <em>Reinhard</em> algorithm.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">To work with this algorithm, it is necessary to find <em>Type</em> section in <em>V-Ray:: Color mapping</em> rollout, and select <em>Reinhard</em> from the drop-down list. This will make the control parameters of algorithm to appear.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Multiplier</strong> is a parameter that controls the overall brightness of the image. More about applying it, you can learn from the<a href="http://renderstuff.com/switching-from-vrayphysicalcamera-to-standard-cg-tutorial/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">Replacement VRayPhysicalCamera by a Standard tutorial</a>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Burn value </strong>is the most interesting parameter of this algorithm. As mentioned earlier, <em>Reinhard</em> is a hybrid of two other algorithms. Exactly the <em>Burn</em> value determines how <em>Reinhard</em> will behave. If this parameter is zero, then <em>Reinhard</em> will give a result quite similar to <em>Exponential Color mapping</em>, if unity – similar to <em>Linear multiply Color mapping</em>. Intermediate values move the direction of the work of <em>Reinhard</em> closer to <em>Exponential</em> or to <em>Linear</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Thus, by adjusting <em>Burn</em>, you can achieve excellent bright and intense visualizations, which <em>Exponential</em> cannot boast, at the same time to get rid of <em>Linear</em>’s overbrights.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">In practice, the most suitable is the value of <em>Burn</em> value equal to 0.35. This value will be an excellent choice for most interior and exterior scenes, as well as for product renderings. That value should be used in universal settings of V-Ray.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Gamma</strong> is the parameter that allows us to perform gamma correction of the image.</div><div class="img_container left_al" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(39, 41, 40); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: black !important; float: left; font-size: 7pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 12px !important; margin-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 512px;"><img alt="vray color mapping setups, may be chosen the type of color mapping and their options" height="192" src="http://renderstuff.com/publication-files/0158/vray-color-mapping-linear-exponential-reinhard-burn-gamma-clamp.png" style="background-color: #101311; padding-bottom: 16px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 16px !important;" width="512" /><br />
The screenshot of the V-Ray:: Color Mapping rollout of V-Ray tab that is in the 3ds Max Render Scene window. Here present the color mapping Type drop-down list, Multiplier, Burn value and Gamma spinners, Sub-pixel mapping, Clamp output with the Clamp level tune, Affect Background and Don't affect color (adaptation only) checkboxes.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Nominally, the correct value of <em>gamma correction</em> is 2.2, but there is one trick. Despite the theoretical correctness of the<a href="http://renderstuff.com/using-gamma-2-2-cg-tutorial/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">concept of rendering with gamma 2.2</a>, even more interesting and beautiful results can be achieved by slightly shifting the gradient of gray on rendering to the black. This will make the shadows more juicy and dense. It is enough to lower the value of the gamma correction from 2.2 to 1.8-1.6. Then the rendering becomes even more contrast and realistic.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The nominally universal value, suitable for any scene is the value of color mapping gamma equal to 1.8. That is it should be used in universal V-Ray settings.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Parameter <strong>Sub-pixel mapping</strong>determines where exactly color mapping will be applied, directly to the final pixels of the image or at the level of sub-pixels that are only after color mapping will be converted into pixels. This feature is <a href="http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/tutorials_unisettings.htm" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">recommended</a> to be disabled even by developers of V-Ray, as in this case a more correct result can be achieved. However, this parameter is very useful when we want to render not to HDRI, but to RGB space. Its activation lets to get the satisfactory smoothed edges on the bright image areas, which come beyond the RGB space. Still, this parameter may be disabled for correct HDR rendering.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Clamp output</strong> allows clipping of the high values of brightness outside the <em>RGB space</em>. Sometimes it can be useful, for example, to get rid of artifacts of <em>AA filter</em> (see the example of the frog’s eye above) that may appear because of an incorrect work of the<em>AA filter</em> with <em>HDRI</em>. Also is to obviate the problems of <em>AA smoothing</em> when rendering images with dynamic RGB range.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Nominally correct is a rendering and saving the image to the <em>HDR (High Dynamic Range)</em> format, so in universal settings <em>Clamp output</em> option must be turned off, or else when image stored in <em>HDRI</em>, the complete information about the actual brightness of the pixels irreversible loses.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Clamp level</strong> parameter determines the level of the cut-off of the information by <em>Clamp output</em> function.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><strong>Affect background</strong> determines whether to apply color mapping to the <em>Environment map</em> or <em>color</em>. As a rule, if the override background image is set, it is rarely a need to apply to <em>color mapping</em> on it. Therefore, in the universal V-Ray settings, the Affect background function must be switched off.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">There is a misconception that there is no any need to configure <em>color mapping</em> at all; that it is sufficient to render <em>HDRI</em> in a<em>linear space</em> and save it in the appropriate format of <em>HDR</em>; after that, using compositing in 2d editor, brush up the image to the desired gamma with the desired exposure. Unfortunately, it is not so.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Firstly, to render one exposure, and then tune it up to another is a blind work. To make a beautiful photo-realistic visualization, not seeing it, its details, colors, illumination, but focusing only on a rough preview with the unfair color mapping it is necessary to be at least a seer or prodigy, who can produce the desired exposure correction in own mind :)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Secondly, the adaptive V-Ray engine, based on the principle of the sampling the most important to the overall result values and cutting off the less important, will simply incorrectly calculate what image area is important and what is not. V-Ray, to save time and computing resources, produces less accurate calculations in dark places with low light energy, in consequence of what they will have a lot of noise. However, since they are still visually dark on the supposed image, then the noise is little or even not noticeable on that image, even when we closely look at it. At that time, the bright spots with high light energy are always in sight and V-Ray produces the most accurate calculations on them, so in bright places there are less of noise and artifacts.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Therefore, if the rendering calculated in gamma correction lower that it would later be observed in, e.g., with a linear gamma 1.0, the picture, after further correction to the bright 2.2 side, will be very noisy and contain many artifacts, as V-Ray considered that image initially as dark.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Nevertheless, the <strong>Don't affect colors (adaptation only) function</strong> exists for such unusual requirements. The essence of this function is that it allows one to get an image in <em>linear gamma</em> of <em>1.0</em>, but all the effects and GI are calculated as if they were in<em>gamma 2.2</em>. Thus, we obtain a linear image ready for further correction, but without the presence of the aforementioned artifacts inherent to the dark areas of rendering.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">However, this method is more exotic than practically necessary, so in the universal V-Ray configuration the <em>Don't affect colors (adaptation only)</em> feature should be turned off.</div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6732721870770314288&postID=1841382390371518263" name="VRay_Camera_rollout" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;"></a><br />
<h2 style="color: black !important; font-weight: normal;">V-Ray Camera rollout</h2><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">The last rollout of the <em>V-Ray tab</em> of a <em>Render Scene</em> window, is a rollout named <em>V-Ray:: Camera</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">This rollout holds the camera settings, namely, the additional features that enhance the <em>standard 3ds Max camera</em>. Such as<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">depth of field</a></em>, <em><a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_blur" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">motion blur</a></em>, switching <em>types of cameras</em> to <em>standard</em>, <em>spherical</em>, <em>cylindrical</em>, etc.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Of course, the universal configuration of V-Ray has no relationship to this rollout and there is nothing should be changed in it without a specific need.</div><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Now you are a little more familiar with some important aspects of configuring <em>V-Ray renderer</em>.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">We hope that reading this part of the tutorial makes you see that the previously seemed unfriendly or even challenging interface of <em>V-Ray tab</em> is much simpler and easier in fact. Also the knowing these basic functions makes your work with V-Ray much easier and professional.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">About the <a href="http://renderstuff.com/vray-indirect-illumination-best-settings-cg-tutorial/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;">functions and settings of next Indirect illumination tab</a> read in the following tutorial.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">All have easy settings and beautiful 3d renderings!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">See you next tutorial, <a href="http://renderstuff.com/feed" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;" target="_blank">check for updates</a>, and certainly support us by purchasing liked excellent <a href="http://renderstuff.com/quality-premium-quality-3d-models-download/" style="color: rgb(0, 130, 217) !important;">premium 3d models</a> :) You can do it!</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;">Your questions and suggestions about this tutorial feel free to write in the comments, and we respond to help you.</div></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 16px;"><i><br />
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</i></div>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-24039598610459250562011-04-28T14:56:00.001-07:002011-04-28T14:56:45.629-07:00Autodesk 3ds Max 2012 announced<div class="strap">Autodesk gets set to release the 2012 version of 3ds Max, providing artists with a new range of creative toolsets -- read on for preview videos of the Nitrous Viewport</div><span id="more-31070"></span><br />
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_31085" style="width: 590px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/03/01/autodesk-3ds-max-2012-announced/3ds_max_2012_nitrous_graphi/" rel="attachment wp-att-31085"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-31085" height="289" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/02/3ds_max_2012_nitrous_graphi.jpg" title="3ds_max_2012_nitrous_graphi" width="580" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core helps artists make better creative decisions</div></div>With the 2012 versions of Autodesk software for digital entertainment creation set to arrive this April, Autodesk has added a number of new tools to the release of 3ds Max.<br />
As audiences and artists require more sophisticated content, Autodesk has emphasised its new, single-step interoperability that maximises creative capabilities and workflow.<br />
There have also been a number of preview videos posted to YouTube. Scroll down to view the Nitrous Viewport at the end of the post.<br />
<h4>Key new features:</h4><ul><li><strong>Move 3D data between software</strong> -- single-step interoperability between 3ds Max, Maya, Motionbuilder, Mudbox and ICE in Softimage</li>
<li><strong>New f-curve editor</strong> -- enables animators to switch between multiple Autodesk products using uniform terminology and a unified UI when editing animation curves</li>
<li><strong>Nitrous Accelerated Graphics Core</strong> -- handles larger data sets with minimal impact on interactivity. Advanced scene management techniques and new render quality display provide a smoother workflow and a clear idea of final output</li>
<li><strong>mRigids Rigid-Body Dynamics uses multi threaded NVIDIA PhysX engine</strong> -- enables the creation of complex simulations in the 3ds Max Viewport</li>
<li><strong>New save and load brush settings</strong> -- enables artists to easily switch between favourite presets. When painting bitmaps in the Viewport Canvas, the clone brush source can be taken from anywhere on screen</li>
</ul>“Artists are facing shorter deadlines coupled with increasing expectations for quality. 3ds Max delivers powerful tools that take advantage of recent hardware advances, along with better interoperability with our other products.<br />
“Together these enhancements help artists to make creative decisions early, validate them and deliver better results faster,” says Marc Petit, senior vice president of Autodesk Media and Entertainment.<br />
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<dd>mRigids creates compelling simulations directly in the 3ds Max viewport</dd></dl></div><h4>Pricing and Availability</h4>3ds Max 2012 is priced at $3495 with an upgrade from the 2011 version costing $1745. The new release will be available from April 2011.<br />
3ds Max is also expected to be part of the Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 -- together with Softimage, Mudbox, and Motion builder at a price of $6,495.<br />
For more information visit the <a href="http://usa.autodesk.com/3ds-max/">3ds Max product page on the Autodesk website</a>.<br />
<h4>Nitrous Viewport previews:</h4><br />
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<span class="youtube"> </span>pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-19496149948345678572011-04-28T14:55:00.001-07:002011-04-28T14:55:54.331-07:00New features for Maya 2012 announced<div class="strap">Autodesk has unveiled Maya 2012, adding new tools for pre-viz, games prototyping, extended simulation capabilities and better pipeline integration</div><span id="more-31069"></span><br />
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_31073" style="width: 590px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/03/maya_2012_viewport_2_0_enha.jpg" rel="lightbox[31069]"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-31073 " height="362" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/03/maya_2012_viewport_2_0_enha-800x500.jpg" title="maya_2012_viewport_2_0_enha" width="580" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Viewport enhancements: now offers a range of full-screen effects</div></div>3D software giant Autodesk has announced a range of new features for leading 3D animation tool Maya.<br />
Alongside enhancements to the Viewport and the addition of editable motion trails, is a focus on interoperability with other software including MotionBuilder, Mudbox and Softimage.<br />
Maya 2012 contains single-step workflows, enabling users to move 3D data directly between the latest versions of Autodesk’s 3D product line.<br />
<h4>Do more with less</h4>Speaking to Autodesk prior to the announcement, 3D World was given a preview to a number of new features. It was said that a significant amount of the new features were implemented as a result of what senior product marketing manager Rob Hoffman labelled “The Avatar Effect”.<br />
“Artists need to do more with less,” he says. “They are being asked to do a huge amount of work for less time and money. It’s something all artists are struggling with today.”<br />
Hoffman went on to note that Autodesk recognised that users were using more than one piece of software, and that efficiency between different platforms has become a key focus.<br />
<h4>Summary of new features:</h4><ul><li><strong>Viewport 2.0 Enhancements</strong> — now includes full-screen effects: motion blur, depth-of-field and ambient occlusion, component and manipulator displays, batch rendering capabilities and a high-performance API</li>
<li><strong>Node-Based Render Passes</strong> — create and edit node-based representations of render passes and render the composited output directly using the mental ray renderer</li>
<li><strong>Editable Motion Trails</strong> — Edit animation directly in the viewport, without needing to switch context to the graph editor</li>
<li><strong>Sequencer Enhancements</strong> — A Sequencer Playlist with a configurable spreadsheet view to reorder clips, edit In and Out points and change camera assignments; as well as support for multi-track audio and the ability to output multiple shots as a single sequence for easier game cinematic rendering or export to a games engine.</li>
<li><strong>Substance Smart Textures</strong> — dynamic, animatable and editable resolution-independent Substance smart textures and filters</li>
<li><strong>Craft Animation Tools</strong> — Four new camera rigs from the Craft Director Studio animation tool for creating complex camera movements. Also – four pre-rigged models</li>
<li><strong>New Simulation Options</strong> — Incorporates the multi-threaded NVIDIA PhysX engine (Windows only) for static, dynamic and kinematic rigid-body simulations in the viewport and the Digital Molecular Matter plug-in for shattering simulations from Pixelux Entertainment</li>
</ul>“With Maya 2012, we have continued our long-term focus on improving production efficiency as well as real-time creative iteration,” says Marc Petit, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_31075" style="width: 590px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/03/maya_2012_editable_motion_t.jpg" rel="lightbox[31069]"><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-31075 " height="362" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/03/maya_2012_editable_motion_t-800x500.jpg" title="maya_2012_editable_motion_t" width="580" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Editable motion trails are a long overdue feature, but it's been delivered extremely well within the viewport</div></div><h4>Pricing and availability</h4>Autodesk has stated that it expects Maya 2012 to be available in April 2011. The software costs $3,495 for a standalone licence, and $1,795 for an upgrade from Maya 2011.<br />
Maya is also expected to be part of the Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 – together with Softimage, Mudbox, and Motion builder at a price of $6,495.pol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-78389162750028257512011-04-28T14:53:00.001-07:002011-04-28T14:53:55.081-07:00Review: LightWave 10<div class="strap">Industry veteran NewTek has brought out an update to its 3D application. 3D World finds out whether it’s worth the upgrade</div><span id="more-32339"></span><br />
Newtek has updated LightWave at NAB 2011 – <a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/04/13/lightwave-10-1-announced-at-nab/">find out what’s in LightWave 10.1</a>.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32343" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.render.jpg" rel="lightbox[32339]"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-32343" height="240" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.render.jpg" title="TDW140.r_lw10.render" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Using the Piranhalien from the LightWave 10 content. Unlike the VPR equivalent (right), this final render includes motion blur and depth of field</div></div><strong>Price:</strong><br />
Full version: £599 / $895 / €695<br />
Upgrade: £339 / $495 / €395<br />
<strong>Developer:</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.lightwave3d.com/">NewTek</a><br />
<strong>Main features:</strong><br />
<ul><li>Viewport Preview Renderer (VPR)</li>
<li>Linear workflow</li>
<li>Improved I/O</li>
<li>3Dconnexion support</li>
</ul>The last time 3D World reviewed LightWave was version 9.5 in December 2008. LightWave 9.6, widely considered the best yet, was released just a month later. NewTek then announced a next generation of LightWave called CORE. This isn’t that LightWave.<br />
NewTek decided that since creating a worthy version of CORE would take a lot longer than envisaged, a new ordinal version of its flagship 3D software would be released, with CORE available to those who want to help beta test it and included in all LightWave 10 licences when finished.<br />
LightWave 10 is a solid release, with new features that are mostly well done, if a little raw. The most immediately obvious is the Viewport Preview Renderer, VPR, which transforms any 3D viewport into a rapid iterative renderer that can have snapshots saved from it – meaning that often you won’t even need to hit [F9].<br />
There are certain things it can’t see at the moment, notably depth of field, motion blur and preprocessed nodal surfaces.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32344" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.vpr2_.jpg" rel="lightbox[32339]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32344" height="182" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.vpr2_-300x182.jpg" title="TDW140.r_lw10.vpr2" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">VPR can be used in more than one viewport at once and at different resolutions, as show here. FiberFX can only be shown in the first viewport, though. NewTek has added a snapshot button that enables you to save the viewport image to disk</div></div>However, it does see some things that LightWave’s most famous interactive renderer plug-in, FPrime, can’t, such as Hypervoxels, FiberFX and volumetric lights.<br />
FPrime owners will need to weigh up this and the fact that VPR pays attention to LightWave’s own radiosity settings and linear workflow tools to make the decision whether to upgrade.<br />
LightWave now has an easy-to-use end-to-end linear workflow system, with centralised global controls and individual overrides where necessary, that compares favourably to packages such as 3ds Max and Blender.<br />
For new scenes created in 10, leaving all the controls set to linear should be all that’s needed to get richer renders that are ideal for further post-processing – although bringing in older scenes will require some thought for best results.<br />
You can now see anaglyphic stereo in OpenGL and in VPR, including animated previews. This feature supports toe-in and parallel-style stereo, but doesn’t yet offer the possibility of off-axis or parallel axis asymmetric frustum, or changing the colours of the lenses in the glasses used.<br />
While these omissions mean that it’s similar to the anaglyphic system added to LightWave 5.5 in 1997, the added VPR functionality means it’s a lot more useful than having to render separate frames and composite them.<br />
Toe-in is really the only physically possible choice available for compositing LightWave with live action, but for all-CG shots either of the other two mechanisms would be better.<br />
<h3>Virtual studio</h3><br />
<br />
Another addition to Layout is the Virtual Studio tool. It’s an interesting concept for those with the opportunity to exploit it.<br />
Imagine a hydra with an animator for each head and someone else controlling the camera that’s filming it, all in one copy of LightWave.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32345" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.vpr_screen.jpg" rel="lightbox[32339]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32345" height="182" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.vpr_screen-300x182.jpg" title="TDW140.r_lw10.vpr_screen" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Using a 3Dconnexion SpaceExplorer enables you to set your shot quickly and comfortably, while VPR, new to this version of LightWave, can show volumetric features such as light and voxels in the viewport</div></div>Using 3Dconnexion devices and InterSense’s VCam, this is in theory possible, but the Virtual Studio is in its<br />
infancy; fragile and poorly documented.<br />
Support for 3Dconnexion’s 3D mice is a welcome inclusion to Layout, though. With the device set to Walk, you can specify a ground plane through which the camera or other chosen object can’t pass and a bank limit to steady motions, whereas Fly allows you full aerobatic possibilities.<br />
Right now, you can’t customise the various buttons on more advanced 3D mice, which makes it awkward for use in Modeler, where keyboard shortcuts are more necessary.<br />
LightWave’s MDD system has been in use for transferring point-level animation between 3D apps for a long time and plugins such as PointOven are well-established in other 3D tools.<br />
MD Scan and Bake have been updated for Autodesk’s Geocache equivalent to be used and to bake multiple items at a time. Importing and exporting Geocache vertex data caches between LightWave and Maya works well and there are no longer any scaling issues.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32341" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.geocache.jpg" rel="lightbox[32339]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32341" height="187" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.geocache-300x187.jpg" title="TDW140.r_lw10.geocache" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Exporting FBX or Collada formats using defaults ruins this scene because of rotation order issues. However, the Geocache format works just fine in both directions</div></div>While inter-application data exchange is a major focus of this update, LightWave is still hampered by the fact that it uses a different rotation order to other prominent applications, making transferring higher-level animation between LightWave and other packages less easy than it should be.<br />
Although the Valkyrie suite of I/O tools received a lot of work in the development of 10, moving a character from one environment to another using FBX or Collada is problematic if you aren’t using the strict rigging and naming conventions imposed by MotionBuilder.<br />
LightWave’s ZBrush compatibility has also been improved, with better OBJ exporters creating their own MTL files and handling scaling more effectively.<br />
<h3>The documentation</h3><br />
<br />
The major problem with LightWave 10 is the documentation. It’s an ugly mix of the manuals from 7, 8 and 9, with new bits from 10 thrown in.<br />
Screenshots aren’t uniformly updated and often the text refers to an older way of achieving a task that hasn’t been possible for a number of years.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32342" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.preview.jpg" rel="lightbox[32339]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32342" height="235" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_lw10.preview-300x235.jpg" title="TDW140.r_lw10.preview" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">Previews can be rendered rapidly with VPR and the window undocked for more resolution flexibility, giving very accurate animation tests</div></div>Some of the new features can’t be found easily or at all, and the page layout is haphazard and inconsistent.<br />
If you’re on a 64-bit Windows or Mac machine and already have 9.6 and FPrime, you might wonder whether you should upgrade.<br />
If linear workflow, better communication with other packages and improved MDD controls are important, then it’s a yes.<br />
Should you primarily be a 9.6 modeller, though, version 10 offers nothing useful you don’t already have.<br />
However, if you’re still using a version prior to 9, we’d say go for it, particularly for the easy linear workflow, powerful and artist-friendly render engine and increased accent on decent I/O.<br />
For those who’ve never used a 3D package before, LightWave has a shallow learning curve and one of the friendliest communities around – and the price is outstanding.<br />
Our main concern with this version is that NewTek finishes what it’s started and these new features don’t wither on the vine like Motion Mixer or IKBoost have done.<br />
<h3>What about Core?</h3><br />
<br />
CORE was originally announced in February 2009 and was expected to be released by the end of 2010, as reported in 3D World 133, but the decision was wisely taken to keep it in beta and temporarily switch focus to<br />
a new version of LightWave 3D.<br />
People buying into LightWave 10 now get it at the original price of $895 and are entitled to a complete version of CORE version 1.0 when it’s released later on in 2011.<br />
People who buy in once CORE is released will need to pay the increased cost of $1,495.<br />
CORE will feature a modifier stack, history and the ability to nodally connect anything to anything in the same fashion as Houdini, but for those outside NewTek’s HardCORE programme it’s all been a bit of a damp squib after the excitement of the initial two-week viral campaign.<br />
<h3>3D World verdict</h3><br />
<br />
PROS<br />
• End-to-end linear workflow<br />
• VPR feature speeds up texturing and lighting immensely<br />
• Good-looking new UI<br />
• Extensive bug-fixes throughout<br />
CONS<br />
• The manual is extremely poor<br />
• A difficult decision if you already have 9.6 and FPrime<br />
• Still no major Modeler updates<br />
LightWave 10 isn’t a huge update, but it’s one that we hope will be consolidated over the course of this versionpol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-9993042301943209992011-04-28T14:49:00.001-07:002011-04-28T14:50:31.795-07:00Software review: Vue 9<h1 title=""></h1><div class="post-credits"></div><div class="strap">3D World looks at the improvements in e-on software’s 3D modelling application for digital environments</div><span id="more-31797"></span><br />
<b>Price:</b> $1,495 (xStream), $995 (Infinite) | <b>Developer:</b> <a href="http://www.e-onsoftware.com/">e-on software</a> | <b>Platform</b> Windows/Mac<br />
<b>Main features</b><br />
<ul><li>Relighting</li>
<li>Improved terrain modelling/painting</li>
<li>Parameter Publishing</li>
<li>HyperBlobs</li>
<li>Flicker reduction</li>
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Let’s start with some good news for Mac users: Vue 9 comes rebuilt (“from the ground up” according to e-on) as a 64-bit native Cocoa application that equals its Windows counterpart in speed and stability.<br />
So, if you’re running Vue on Mac it seems like version 9 is a must-have upgrade regardless of other features.<br />
But what about Windows users – how much does this update offer compared to Vue 8.5?<br />
Firstly, Vue’s interface has been redesigned with softer grey colours, new icons and buttons, giving it a stylish, upto-date look and a comfortable feel overall.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">Vue 9's redesigned interface</div></div>This is more than just a facelift though; some buttons have been re-organised in a more logical fashion. A handy Randomize button has been added to fractal terrains, materials and clouds, and the base grid is now infinitely adaptive, with a scale ruler in each window.<br />
Also, measurements are now standardised across the board as real world units and degrees, making work in<br />
Vue more coherent.<br />
Surprisingly, a few rather archaic aspects of the interface have been left unchanged. The numerics tab, for<br />
instance, still displays rotation as pitch, yaw and roll, and the colour editor remains modal, which can be a problem when using the new relighting tool.<br />
<h3>Self publishing</h3><br />
<br />
<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">Parameter publishing - you can creat your own control panels</div></div>By far the most significant new interface feature in Vue 9 is the ability to pull out (or ‘publish’) any parameter from the function editor and create your own customisable control panels in the terrain and material editors.<br />
Without the need to jump back and forth between the function editor and other windows, editing complex procedural terrains and materials becomes much more fast and fluid.<br />
Published material parameters have their own animation curves, which allows for much more precise material animation.<br />
The last couple of versions brought substantial enhancements to terrain modelling, and Vue 9 continues this trend with more features and improved workflow.<br />
Terrain paintbrushes have been re-organised into a Photoshop-style library with the ability to modify and save your own brushes with a dedicated brush editor.<br />
This editor includes some very useful additions such as the much-needed ability to control the subdivision resolution for image-driven brushes, and the option to control brush behaviour with environment rules.<br />
For example, you can now paint snow where you want it while still having it appear only on flat areas.<br />
To further facilitate terrain painting, a separate ‘freeze mask’ can be layered in at any time to protect areas from being painted, and a new Smear brush comes in handy for shifting large chunks of terrain without destroying small detail.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">Terrain paint brushes organised in a Photoshop-style library</div></div>Vue 9 also comes with a new terrain algorithm, the Rocky Mountain fractal – quite possibly the most powerful and flexible terrain fractal to date.<br />
It can be used on its own, to create sharp-ridged, highly detailed alpine mountains, or mixed with a Terrain fractal for instance, to add rocky outcrops, stones or scree.<br />
Like other fractal algorithms, it’s not easy to master but it packs a lot of power and can generate a surprising diversity of terrains.<br />
Another very useful addition to the Terrain Editor is the ability to extend a fractal terrain, rather than just rescaling it.<br />
<h3>Relight and Retopologize</h3><br />
<br />
The new Retopologize function automatically rebuilds the mesh of standard terrains, attempting to correct bad topology that results from drastic sculpting or stretching.<br />
The Looseness parameter lets you define the amount of mesh relaxation, but even at minimum settings there’s a considerable amount of smoothing that destroys small-scale detail.<br />
This limits the usefulness of the Retopologize tool, especially since you cannot apply erosion and effects to<br />
retopologised terrains.<br />
Relighting lets you tweak the intensity and colour of multiple lights as a post-render real-time process.<br />
Vue’s lighting paradigm has always been based on a single light source – the sun – so in order to fully use the potential of relighting, a shift from the one-light paradigm is necessary.<br />
With the help of the Influence Editor, you can restrict the main sunlight to the sky alone, add a second sun for extra light on the clouds, a third for the actual scene, add localised and ambient lights, and then fine-tune with relighting.<br />
Vue’s relighting is derived from the actual raytraced render. This means that tweaking a light realistically affects shadows, reflections and refractions across the scene and changing the sun’s intensity and colour immediately changes the appearance of the sky, which consequently affects the ambient light.<br />
It all works quite beautifully, making relighting a great tool for quickly generating different looks out of a single render.<br />
What’s currently missing is a separate slider to control the indirect lighting contribution.<br />
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<div class="wp-caption-text">HyperBlobs - remarkably suitable for creating highly complex rock formations</div></div>HyperBlobs are not an entirely new technology, but rather a marriage between the two existing Vue features of MetaBlobs and HyperTextures – albeit with enhanced controls and functionality.<br />
It’s now possible to add displacement on top of the HyperTexture material, control the subdivision amount and cut out floating, unconnected bits.<br />
All this makes HyperBlobs remarkably suitable for creating highly complex, resolution-independent rock formations.<br />
However, like fractal terrains, they are not very intuitive, and take time to calculate and render. It’s not possible to export HyperBlobs or convert them into simple meshes.<br />
While they can be a great modelling tool for large-scale features, HyperBlobs aren’t very suitable for use in EcoSystems, for example. Therefore, a preset-based SolidGrowth-style rock generator is still high on our wish list.<br />
One of the major points of criticism toward Vue has been the flickering that often occurs in animations with dense EcoSystems.<br />
According to e-on, flicker reduction in Vue 9 isn’t an additional feature, but rather an internal improvement<br />
in plant rendering, so it’s not selectable or user-controlled.<br />
Our tests showed that while flickering hasn’t completely gone, it is considerably less obvious than in Vue<br />
8.5, without any noticeable blurring or loss of detail.<br />
So while Vue 9 doesn’t deliver anything major such as a new plant editor or rock generator, it does offer some exciting features like relighting and the Rocky Mountain fractal that open up new creative possibilities, together with substantial workflow enhancements.<br />
<h3>Verdict</h3><br />
<br />
<b>Pros</b><br />
• New terrain modelling and painting tools<br />
• Relighting is useful<br />
• More customisable controls<br />
• Rewritten 64-bit OSX version<br />
<b>Cons</b><br />
• No improvement to rock generator<br />
• No ambient relighting control<br />
• Limited Retopologize<br />
A solid and very worthwhile upgrade for any serious Vue artist – and for Mac users in particularpol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732721870770314288.post-79098877406672679932011-04-28T14:48:00.000-07:002011-04-28T14:48:17.065-07:00Review: modo 501<div class="strap">Expectations are high for the latest version of Luxology’s flagship application, but does modo 501 deliver?</div><span id="more-32280"></span><br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32282" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.auricom_hanga.jpg" rel="lightbox[32280]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32282" height="175" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.auricom_hanga-300x175.jpg" title="TDW140.r_modo.auricom_hanga" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">modo handles more complex scenes with ease, especially in 64-bit, provided you have the RAM to take advantage of it</div></div><strong>Price: </strong> £642 / $995 / €756<br />
or £255 / $395 / €300 (upgrade)<br />
<strong>Developer:</strong> <a href="http://www.luxology.com/">Luxology</a><br />
<strong>Platform:</strong> Windows/Mac<br />
<strong>Main features:</strong><br />
<ul><li>Improved render speed and quality</li>
<li>Pixar subdivision surfaces</li>
<li>Multi-resolution sculpting</li>
<li>Occlusion shader</li>
<li>Enhanced depth of field and bokeh effects</li>
<li>Numerous toolset and UI improvements</li>
<li>Enhance:modo Texture suite included</li>
</ul>Since its inception, Luxology has primarily marketed modo as a modelling tool, and one that integrates easily with a wide variety of different production pipelines.<br />
Over the years, each major release has added significant features to this slick and intuitive package, but – on paper at least – 501 appears to be a consolidation of the existing feature set, rather than the launch platform for new and exciting functionality.<br />
Indeed, 501’s roll out has been a much more low-key affair than that of 401, which was preceded by a number of online feature reveals leading right up to release.<br />
However, after extended time with 501, we can say that while there’s been consolidation of the existing tools, it has more than enough new features to justify its billing as a major release.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32281" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.assembly.jpg" rel="lightbox[32280]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32281 " height="223" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.assembly-300x223.jpg" title="TDW140.r_modo.assembly" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">A new schematic viewport provides a nodal system with which to build complex rigs and animated scenes</div></div>Browsing the modo forums, it’s clear that many expected 501 to be the ‘character animation’ release, but this isn’t the case.<br />
The animation tools have received a fair number of upgrades this time around, and while stopping short of full CA functionality, it’s obvious that Luxology has laid a solid foundation for it to appear in a future release.<br />
The software’s inverse kinematics tools have been improved, and a new node-based schematic view for the animation pipeline makes its debut.<br />
Changes such as these not only add extra functions now, but also hint at major additions further down the<br />
line.<br />
Adding a character animation toolset would require a solid code base to be properly integrated, and 501 looks to go some way to providing this.<br />
<h3>New modelling features</h3><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32285" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen2.jpg" rel="lightbox[32280]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32285" height="240" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen2-300x240.jpg" title="TDW140.r_modo.screen2" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">The centre object here shows the advantage of Pixar sub-d over regular sub-d (right), when used with weight maps</div></div>Modelling is where modo has always excelled, and with 501 the list of improvements is staggering.<br />
Regular subdivision modelling is still present and correct, but Pixar subdivision surfaces modelling makes its debut, and proves to be one of 501’s most invaluable new features.<br />
The advantage of P-sub modelling is that bevels and edge sharpening can be done primarily with edge<br />
weighting, reducing viewport polygon counts significantly, and the Pixar sub-d algorithm gives a smoother result than regular sub-d models.<br />
Objects created using the P-sub/weight map method can also be exported to Maya 2011 (via FBX), which is a huge boon to studios that use modo in their pipeline.<br />
Pixar sub-d models can take advantage of another of 501’s new features – multi-resolution meshes. A model created using Pixar sub-d can have a minimum sub-d level set, and then be divided further using the multi-resolution controls.<br />
In this way, a simple shape can be subdivided several times to enable high-resolution sculpting on the actual mesh, but with the option of returning to the low-resolution model at any time.<br />
All high-resolution sculpt data will still be visible at the higher resolution, but this gives more flexibility in how you handle high-detail sculpt data, such as baking displacement maps for the low-res mesh.<br />
Rendering has been a main feature of modo since 201, and it too has seen a massive number of improvements in 501, both under the hood and in terms of added functionality.<br />
Render speed and quality have both been enhanced enormously, and the preview engine has been given a full overhaul.<br />
In 401, modo’s render preview was no slouch, but the speed improvement in 501 is obvious.<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32284" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen1.jpg" rel="lightbox[32280]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32284" height="183" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen1-300x183.jpg" title="TDW140.r_modo.screen1" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">With the new RayGL, renders can be previewed directly in any viewport, which speeds up your workflow immeasurably</div></div>Complementing it is RayGL, which gives a low-res version of the preview render in your working viewport and is updated on-the-fly.<br />
501 also sees enhancements in render quality, with new anti-aliasing options, improved depth of field and motion blur, and advanced camera settings with full bokeh.<br />
Displacement quality has been optimised and integrated with the newly recoded bump mapping algorithm.<br />
Both bump and displacement now give far superior results, with lower overheads, although because these use a completely new engine, any legacy files that use bump or displacement maps will need to be checked and most likely adjusted in 501.<br />
Procedural textures have been given some much-needed attention as well, with 501 now offering the Enhance:modo Textures (a suite of 149 new textures and presets), as well as standard procedurals.<br />
Each is fully customisable, and when combined with the new occlusion shader, they can create stunning results, especially when applied as a combination of bump maps and layer masks.<br />
<h3>Further enhancements</h3><br />
<br />
<br />
<div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_32286" style="width: 310px;"><a href="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen5.jpg" rel="lightbox[32280]"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-32286 " height="183" src="http://www.3dworldmag.com/files/2011/04/TDW140.r_modo.screen5-300x183.jpg" title="TDW140.r_modo.screen5" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">This object is being textured with the new Enhance:modo Textures and occlusion layer masking</div></div>Using 501 is just as much of a joy as ever, and users who’ve been with modo for a few years will notice small changes to the UI, and that a few tools and menus have moved.<br />
That said, 501 still feels familiar and snappy, even with the added features.<br />
Modelling with modo has always been a fast and enjoyable affair, and with the new render enhancements, previews no longer feel like a bottleneck in your productivity.<br />
Luxology has also achieved feature parity between the Windows and Mac OS X releases with 501, as 64-bit versions are now available for both platforms.<br />
The new OS X Cocoa build, while suffering from a few (documented) bugs, is solid enough, and Mac users with both Snow Leopard and more than 4GB of RAM will see huge benefits with larger scenes.<br />
There are, however, some glaring omissions from the feature set. Forgetting the aforementioned character animation tools, modo still lacks any form of dynamics, particle or fluid simulation.<br />
A soundtrack option would also seem like an obvious addition given that animation has been present since 301.<br />
modo has been maturing nicely with each new release, but when we first browsed the feature list, we were worried that development may be slowing with 501.<br />
Such fears proved unfounded, though, as the new bells and whistles are very impressive.<br />
Combine this excellent feature set with the fact that the core of the application has been polished to such a high sheen, and you’re undoubtedly left with the finest iteration of modo yet.<br />
<h3>3D World verdict</h3><br />
PROS<br />
• Pixar sub-d modelling<br />
• Fast, clean renders<br />
• Consolidated feature set<br />
CONS<br />
• No character animation<br />
• Glitchy Cocoa release<br />
modo silences the doubters as Luxology release the most stable and feature-rich version of the software yet. Character animation may be conspicuous by its absence, but there’s easily more than enough here to compensatepol napthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722289864153103060noreply@blogger.com0