Maya Light Fog Tutorial by Stuart Christensen

Learn how to assign a great looking atmospheric fog to a spot light in Maya. This quick tutorial will introduce you to the basic control elements to effectively use this effect in scenes created with Maya. This tutorial is for beginners!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Maya 2010
• Maya 2001
• light
• fog
• tutorial
• Stuart
• Christensen

[xsoulpl]

Hello there. very nice tutorial.

I got a question why i dont get the shadow under the sphere when i create the light.

I got the light but the shadow isint there. Same hapens with other objects There is no shadow.

Im using Maya 2011

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@xsoulpl Did you remember to to enable either depth map shadows or raytrace shadows on the actual spotlight?

[highflycloud9]

would this also render in mental ray or no?

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@highflycloud9 Yes, if you use mental ray just make sure you use raytrace shadows option.

[mircopagni]

i love 3d maya

[bpp45]

@deepfriedectoplasm i also use mac so that sounds great but what do you mean camtasia lets you edit wouldnt i be able to save a video as and avi. and edit it in after effects if i chose screenflick? i like the one you used for this vid cuz its in 1080p and hardly even looks compressed if compressed at all

[deepfriedectoplasm]

@bpp45 I use a little program called Screenflick for Mac, it's a $20 app that works great...and there's a new version out that seems to be a better version because of the addition of a pause button and such. So, if you are on a Mac it's a great choice, however, I am playing around with Camtasia which takes a bit longer to render but allows for editing which comes in quite handy at times. Hope that helps.

[bpp45]

@deepfriedectoplasm nice tutorial but i do have one question how did you record your screen? was it through maya or some other program? oh ya and i subscribed

[11KieranTobin11]

Thanks for the tut, it's great! One question, if the scene was rendered with another renderer and this fog was rendered in Maya software can you tell me how you would composite them in photoshop? Or do you know of a tutorial that shows this?

thanks again.

[gianmarcomontes]

Hi great tutorial, i have some questions, the firstone is how can i make the fog have some difuse at the end, i mean lost the opacity with the distance?. And the second one is why when i duplicate the light (with the fog effect) the new has no Fog light. thanks