Maya 2011 3D Fluid Container for Explosions, Fire, Smoke Tutorial Part 1 of 2 by Stuart Christensen

[Impactfilms1337]

lol when you were like grab yourself a cup of coffee, i looked over at my desktop and well, I had a cup of coffee. :)

[rockindglobe]

u make it so much simpler to understand it thnk u ..:)

[tyetygon]

how do you get the out liner tab open?

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@tyetygon In the Main Maya Menus go to Window - Outliner and you will find the "all important" outliner.

[tyetygon]

@deepfriedectoplasm thanks!!

[ryantheram719]

Oh nice this is really cool and very interesting it took me a while to get through it but it is really bad ass

[ninjablooper123]

so i am a noob and how do i get a container

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@ninjablooper123 Watch Part 1 and Part 2 and by the end you should get a very good idea of how to create this stuff.

[vishwakarma00]

hi......there is a one request to put a tutorial for tornado using maya fluid.......

[ryanjohnsond]

I was nice today. I want to make a bullet wake like this pic. Looks almost like a bulet traveling through invisible water. h t t p [colon forward slash slah} forums [dot] cgsociety [dot] org [forward slash] showthread [dot] p h p ? p = 7021545 # post 7021545

[ryanjohnsond]

I read a book and was nice to my kids today. :) Could you show me how you would achieve a bullet trail effect scene on my video page.

[Wshiroemon]

wow this is awesome about the maya fluid. But I'm newbie for software how can created space ship like this

[x900lbGorillax]

hm.. am I missing something? I got as far as trying to show the heat is there. But I never got arrows. All the objects or whatever you call it in outliner, under perp, top, front, side, fluid1 and psphere1 don't show up in my outliner. All I have is what I created fluid1 and psphere1. I'll just try this again later see if I get any where.

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@x900lbGorillax Look in the outliner under the word "display" and you should see a box with 4 little arrows, click on that icon and it should enable more stuff to see in the outliner. As for the heat issue, make sure everything is set to dynamic grid. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get all the steps, but once you get it down you'll be playing with fire! Hope that helps.

[x900lbGorillax]

@deepfriedectoplasm, ah thanks a lot for you help. My problem was my own fault I realized I clicked on the wrong emitter. Some how I meant to click emit from object but apparently still got the wrong one! Sorry about that thanks a lot for your help on outliner!

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@x900lbGorillax Excellent! Maya likes problem solvers. I also forgot to say that if all you're "stuff" isn't showing up in the Outliner, just fo to the Outliners Display Menu and UNcheck the box for DAG objects. That way, you can see everything that is going on in your scene. Cool, stay with it, it takes a while but it's worth it. The more you work with it the easier it gets. Cheers. 

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@x900lbGorillax Excellent! Maya likes problem solvers. I also forgot to say that if all you're "stuff" isn't showing up in the Outliner, just fo to the Outliners Display Menu and UNcheck the box for DAG objects. That way, you can see everything that is going on in your scene. Cool, stay with it, it takes a while but it's worth it. The more you work with it the easier it gets. Cheers.

[x900lbGorillax]

@deepfriedectoplasm That's exactly what I was looking for. After unchecking it I got all the same objects as your outliner! Thanks again though, I finally can understanding the fluid container concept an how it's just as it says a container to hold your fluids/fire for whatever you need it for. Excellent stuff! Glad I found your channel! Take care!

[ErinrinTheSwede]

Thank you very much for this, I really like how you explain why things -don't- happen, it's very helpful :) I'm going to get a cup of coffee now ;D

[ErinrinTheSwede]

Thank you very much for this, I really like how you explain why things -don't- happen, it's very helpful :) I'm going to get a cup of coffee now ;D

[ErinrinTheSwede]

Thank you very much for this, I really like how you explain why things -don't- happen, it's very helpful :) I'm going to get a cup of coffee now ;D

[UzumakiYodaime]

thx for this nice tutorial .. it helped a lot

[YLoPlatano]

dude your the man!!!!

[wescwot]

Really FUN Thanks

[Sirfrummel]

Thanks for the great tutorial - and also the heads up on lester banks site - it seems legit.