Maya FX / Dynamic / Particle Tutorials

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1 Creating an Animated Flag
This is a tutorial on creating an animated flag using the built in tools of Maya without having to resort to the memory intensive Cloth simulator.
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2 Maya Particle Instancer
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3 How to make a realistic cable
In this tutorial i`ll try to explain how to make a simple NURBS cylinder to behave like a real cable with gravity, some elasticity and all that real stuff. In this tutorial i`m assuming all the tools i`ll use are set to default settings.
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4 Generating Golden Particles
This tutorial explains the process to generating Golden particles with the use of Maya's Dynamic particle engine. The tutorial was done using Maya 6.0.
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5 Using particle Speed
There are situations where a phenomenon's velocity or speed is related to it's behavior or appearance. Perhaps the incandecence increases as a particle moves faster, or the color changes from blue to red.
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6 Particle Emission when objects collide
A commonly needed effect is the emission of particles at the exact location of object collision.
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7 Creating a dynamic telephone cord using Maya Hair
This file shows a simple and fast method for creating a dynamic phone cord using Maya Hair.
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8 Pen writing on paper (Maya paint effects)
It is relatively easy to animate a line of written text, but it can be tricky to exactly track the pencil point to the line as it writes without resorting to lots of keyframes.
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9 Particle Replacement of Geometry Script
The original idea came from looking at Barbara Meier's Painterly Rendered techniques and her Haystack images. Her technique was to use particles to represent the geometry and each particle had its own brush stroke applied.
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10 Particle Morph
Hi Friends , This is sathish kumar from chennai, India. I am working in Nipuna Services. This tutorial is all about particles. In this Tutorial we will be using mathematical functions.
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11 How to fade particle instancer
In this tutorial i`ll try to explain how to fade particle instancer on a particle basis.
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