Growing/pruning plants upon particle collision—Maya raining dynamics
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Maya Tutorials : Growing/pruning plants upon particle collision—Maya raining dynamics

Doing particle dynamics in Maya is little bit complex compared to other 3d packages.Once you get the right track you can make stunning effects with particles inside Maya.Here I am showing a cool and easy way to create rain dynamics but instead of pruning water drops I am creating growing plants. I tried to avoid expressions and scripting as long as possible.
The repeating animation cycle of instanced particle according to the lifespan is the base of most of dynamic effects.

Topics covered

Particle dynamics(creation,field and collision)
Animating a growing plant with paintfx
Converting the paint effects to mesh
Instancing the animated mesh to particles
Adjusting the different attributes of instances to get desired effects.
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     Tutorial: Growing/pruning plants upon particle collision—Maya raining dynamics
     Date Listed: 2012-02-15
     Submitted By: samsan8
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