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Eudaimic
02-11-2003, 05:33 PM
How difficult would it be to create a hovercraft like dust cloud? (blowing under neath the vehicle and out). I have only slight experience with the particle systems of Max, so I'm rather unknowledgeable as to how good Maya handles such systems.
nemirc
02-12-2003, 02:37 AM
You could attach the emitter to the engines and emit the particles from there (for a better look you can use surface emitters).

I think it would be better if you only output the particles (no vehicle) and then combine both sequences in POST.
marvin042
02-12-2003, 02:46 AM
It would be easy. make a plane the shape of the bottom of the hover-craft and make that emit particles. Select the ground/terrain and make that a collision object, and the particles will react to them normally. You will obviously have to adjust the parameters of the particles, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

marvin
Eudaimic
02-12-2003, 11:05 AM
Originally posted by nemirc
You could attach the emitter to the engines and emit the particles from there (for a better look you can use surface emitters).

I think it would be better if you only output the particles (no vehicle) and then combine both sequences in POST.

Wouldn't I run into problems with the particles not interacting with the vehicle then?
Eudaimic
02-12-2003, 11:06 AM
Originally posted by marvin042
It would be easy. make a plane the shape of the bottom of the hover-craft and make that emit particles. Select the ground/terrain and make that a collision object, and the particles will react to them normally. You will obviously have to adjust the parameters of the particles, but it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

marvin

Well it sounds easy enough :) But we aaall know how THAT works! Hehe :)
nemirc
02-12-2003, 12:25 PM
Well, as a matter of fact it's pretty easy to setup.
Just go through the online help and you'll find your answers right again :thumbsup:
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