Help with Smoke and particle Rendering

[altruizine]

Are you using sprites? Sprites work well for dust. With a bit of scripting and tweaks they look great, even for heavy dust.

For very very thick clouds like a volcanic ash cloud pouring out of a volcano, you're kinda out of luck. You would need a nice ray marching renderer and good volume particles. You can't really do that in maya now (with maya's software renderer - perhaps in Mental Ray, but I"m stuck in 4.5 at the moment and can't try that (it's a bit limiting in this version))

I'm not sure there are any great web tutorials, but I got the "Learning Particles" dvd from the alias site and it covered this exact thing very well.

Good luck!

Feel free to ask me anything...

-JF

[ThatBlack1]

Thank you so much. I'm using Maya 5. But still..thank you...your a life saver.

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