[Rayfire Tutorial Torrent
Edelira Longinotti
Maya Particles can achieve a lot of effects, but few can be as fun as trying to recreate the back to the future fire trail. Eric Rosenthal has a quick little follow-align tutorial on 3DArtistOnline.com showing how to create a simple homage to the film Back to the Future. Eric walks through the settings and networks needed to create a fire trial behind a moving vehicle, using Maya Particles.
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Curious if anyone knows any scripts to animate into place a building and show the construction. I see it all the time and I am curious if its all manually done (would be a major pain in the butt for this project with 100,000 objects).
Yeah, sorry for going off piste. I just don't think rayfire is the way to go, unless you want your building construction to look like an explosion played in reverse, or if you don't want to shell out 300+ dollars for a plugin you may use only once.
Mass FX included with Max will give you similar results. Copy-Paste-Offset keys script is free and even easier to do. Just do one panel or bay unfolding, copy-past-offset keys script, and blammo you have your animation.
Rayfire is needlessly complicated for these types of animations and can send the wrong message. Architects tend to not like to see their buildings a post collapsed/demolished kind of way, even it it is in reverse. They prefer to to see things in the graceful magical unfolding of panels and flying curtain walls. There are plenty of free scripts/tools out there for you to use that are faster to learn and faster to use.
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