I'm doing some terrain modeling and I'm using textures to displace a soft body mesh. This is fine when I use 2D textures and "colorAtPoint". But when I wanted to use some solid t …

Greetings - I'm wondering if it is possible to use particle systems with namespaces. THe problem arises when using PP attributes that supply data to specific dynamic nodes... Wit …

I've just noticed this in my Maya 2009 scene file. The particle instanced geometry is a frame behind the particle position. Has this always been the case? I've never had a probl …

Hi, I'm rendering lot of point particles with 3Delight. Now I'm trying to render different passes, most of them don't work, like Z, or luminance depth. Is there any trick involved. …

What would be the fastest way to make particles to follow particles on goal. I tried expression and this works fine, but it is a bit slow with lots of particles. Normal goals work …

My particles hit a number of surfaces. But I want collisions with a specific surface to kill the colliding particle and to emit new particles. I wrote a simple event proc that sa …

Hello Maya wizards, I instanced a cube on my particles and each particle has a different color. I would like each instanced cube to have its corresponding color. This would be to …

Hi Everyone, I am vfx and 3D artist learning the ways of programming and, I got a question for you guys. How could I create a ripple fx in Houdini, Maya and or XSI. I don't want t …

Hi, is there anyway in Maya for selecting for editing individual particles from an Nparticle system. Thanks a lot

Hello Everyone, This question is related to the "ripple particles" that I have already posted. Thanks for helping out Julian. I think I want to take the whole ripple of particle …

I want to write a field in maya that applies a force in the space between 2 pieces of geometry. They can be topologically identical triangulated meshes. So the problem comes down t …