Maya 2011 2D Fluid Container Simple Waterfall Tutorial by Stuart Christensen

[teemue]

Hey man! Just found your tutorials. These are great, your voice is soothing and your flow perfect. Def. subscribed!

[icantseeyou2]

Hi Stuart, why can't I find FluidShade in my outliner? All I can see is a FluidEmitter1 parented to Fluid1....

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@icantseeyou2 You should probably select the shader from the hypershade and from the the menu go to Graph input and output connections and it should show as a node in the hypershade window that you can then select. Hope that helps.

[icantseeyou2]

@deepfriedectoplasm Thank you!! BTW if I want to make a an animation that shows the "water" comes down, how can I make the fluid go straight down from the beginning? Cuz now the fluid I made looks like an arrow in the beginning, thanks again!

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@icantseeyou2 Yes, you need to set the fluids initial state, that is, if you look in the menu for fluid effects you will see a choice for "set initial state", so play the animation up to the point where it looks right and then (with the fluid selected_Highlighted) go to the menu and set the initial state, also, when you are done making any changes you may want to go to the Fluid nCache menu and choose "Create New Cache" to put the effect into memory so to speak.

[darkalien]

you sound like Lumberg from office space XD

[iloveXH558]

hi Stu, its Caroline- i email you sometimes re: maya!

i have a new YT account dedicated to XH558 :)

just wanted to say this is a good tutorial thankyou!

il show you my animation soon- its not quite pixar for sure :O as long as i get a PASS mark im happy :)

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@iloveXH558 Cool! You still do the foot thing though? 

[iloveXH558]

@deepfriedectoplasm lol not any more sadly. takes up to much time. However my love for 558 will never fade :D

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@iloveXH558 OK...so here's an idea, create a 558 model in Maya and do a comp in AfterEffects with it zooming around and in between your toes and stuff with a soundtrack set to the Flight of the Bumble Bees or something....just a thought!  Good luck with all your stuff!

[iloveXH558]

@deepfriedectoplasm ah ha ha! yes!! of course i will do that :D

[Kcrystel]

Do you have any tutorials for maya 2012 not 2011? oh and good tutorial anyway.

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@Kcrystel For the moment I'm on 2011, there's some cool new stuff in 20112 and I'll be upgrading soon but for now the 2011 tutorials that I create are certainly the same for 2012. Even the tutorials I created with 2009 are the same for 2011 and 2012, although the interface is slightly different.

[mhafeez]

Hey! Thanks a lot, this was so very helpful. Also, the results look little more better if we enable the "Enable liquid simulation" under Liquids for the FluidObject. Again, thanks so much.

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@mhafeez Yes! I sort of forgot about that option as I was making the tutorial...Very good observation and suggestion...Thanks for the nice words!

[prabhakar9949347706]

thank u 

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@prabhakar9949347706 You are so welcome!  Glad you found this useful!

[mirzasfazal]

wow.! thank you deepfried....bro



[elbenjo90]

Your tutorials are so helpful, many thanks bro. :)

[viki164]

hey there..

Nice work..keep up the good work :)

Best,

-Vik

[judahreigns]

you always have the best tutorials. I love how u work backwards, you always show different ways to do something, whether its the right way or wrong way, during the process of of doing it the best way.

please dont stop with the tutorials.

thanks

[TiCasque100]

That's GREAT!

[ResidentAk]

awesome :)

[TheKumaDB]

great tutorial stu

[kazmiasad]

thankyou stuart really a great tutorial, i will surly dig to learn more :) Thanks again :)

[thedarktimesofterion]

Another awsome tutorial Stu!!! Keep on the great work!! Cheers