Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part `17 - Sprites

I think I will definitely be using sprites for parts of my adaptation B animations, I'm interested to know if it is possible to have different sprite images on the same particle system. I want to use these to have stars and hearts explode from the pop characters attacks, just to make it even more sickly.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 16 - Conditional Goal Weights

I still had some particle glitches after caching so I had to cut the beginning of the simulation short, apart from that the tutorial went smoothly, the scripting made sense and was easy to follow.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 15 - Goal Weights

This was lots of fun to do and I think the goal weights will be really useful when dealing with particles in the future.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 14 - Animated Instances

This was a cool tutorial, I can see its use in crowd simulation and it looks like it will be a powerful tool. The coding side was interesting and it would be useful to gain a bit more knowledge in it.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 13 - Instance Rotations

It's a shame that Maya is bugged and I couldn't apply the x axis rotation as well, but here is it without it.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 12 - Instancing Objects

This tutorial was pretty cool, I looks like it will be super useful to create crowds, if animation can also be copied then that makes it even more powerful. 

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 11 - Collision Events

The collision event is a pretty nifty tool and very easy to use.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics part 10 - Emit from Particles

It's cool that you can emit particles from particles, that will be useful to know for future uses.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 9 - Curve Flow

The curve flow tool has some nice features that could be cool to use in the future.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 8 - Surface Emission

I thought this effect was quite cool, it's nice to see how particles can be used in a variety of ways.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 5 - Volume Emitters

A nice quick effect that could have multiple uses in future animations.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 7 - Per Point Emission

A nice quick tutorial with fairly good results, it's cool that you can emit from different points and I can see how that would be useful in the future.

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 6 - Emit From Curve

If you think this could be your new home planet, you're looking in alderaan places....

Maya Turorials - Dynamics Part 4 - Directional Emitters

Today I did the directional emitter tutorial, it was a quick and easy one to get through, with some interesting results. I can see how the blobby surface particle render type could be sued to create water, 

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 3 - Omni Emitters

Catching up with the maya tutorials I missed, I think i actually prefer the idea of the render buffer to the actual renderer. I liked the idea of the flipbook built in, like having fcheck already open. Blowing stuff up is also always fun....

Pipeline 2 - Maps Part 4

Today I did the base maps for the game asset, this was a quick and useful tutorial which will definitely be useful in the future.

 Stone base map

Wooden plank base map

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 2 - Particles Grid

I had a lot of trouble setting up the grid with the cursor initially, I ended up using locators to snap to because that seemed to work better than a cube. 

Maya Tutorials - Dynamics Part 1 - Sketching Particles

The particles looked a bit blown out after I batch rendered them but they didn't seem that bad when I was test rendering, here is the quick animation though. Particles were always something I found daunting but these feel controllable.

Pipeline 2 - Maps Part 3

Ambient Occlusion maps are done and I am ready to move onto the next stage, here are all the maps in gif form.

Pipeline 2 - Maps Part 2

This tutorial went rather well, maya decided to co-operate with me, although I had to export my scene and import it into a new file as the other normal maps were acting up again (this seemed to fix the issue, the lambert 1 shader would stay attached on the objects which was messing with the normal map material.)