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xinji
09-01-2004, 12:59 AM
Okay, I have created some 3D text in maya, and I need an effect that makes it materialize at random points. I dont know if this can be done using particles or not, but it would be great if it can be done inside maya. Doing it in some compositing software would be the contingency plan.

Thanks for reading.
bartrobinson
09-08-2004, 08:03 PM
Depending on the look you want you could birth many many particles on the surface of the logo, or perhaps in the volume of the logo and basically just let them be born with no physics applied. I think you'd probably want to eventually do something compositing/editing on it to get from your materializing text to your full on surfaced / rendered text. If you have Fluids you could apply it to your text as a smokey volume and gradually increase the density util it's solid.
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