1 Overview Fluid Effect
What is Fluid Effect ?
What does fluid effects support ?
2 Working with Fluid Pond
Learning contents: Create Pond; Fluid Attributes; Pond Wake; Emission Turbulence;
Shader Attributes; Match Object; Interactive; Simulation Quality; Make Collision;
InitialState; Keyframe Emission; Keyframe Object; Raytraced Water, ...
3 Working with Fluid Ocean
Learning contents: Create Ocean; Customize Ocean; Control Render; Floating
Objects; Adjust Attribute; Motor Boats; Ocean Wake; Emitter from Object, ...
4 Working with Visor Library
Learn how to use templates.
Create a virtual lab.
2. CONTENTS
Overview Fluid Effect
What is Fluid Effect ?
What does fluid effects support ?
Working with Fluid Pond
Learning contents: Create Pond; Fluid Attributes; Pond Wake; Emission Turbulence;
Shader Attributes; Match Object; Interactive; Simulation Quality; Make Collision;
InitialState; Keyframe Emission; Keyframe Object; Raytraced Water, ...
Working with Fluid Ocean
Learning contents: Create Ocean; Customize Ocean; Control Render; Floating
Objects; Adjust Attribute; Motor Boats; Ocean Wake; Emitter from Object, ...
Working with Visor Library
Learn how to use templates.
Create a virtual lab.
4. What is Fluid Effect ?
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Is a technology for realistically simulating and rendering fluid motion. Fluid Effects lets you create a
wide variety of 2D and 3D atmospheric, pyrotechnic, space, and liquid effects.
o You can use the Fluid Effectssolvers to simulate these effects, or you can use fluid animated
textures for more unique, distinguishing effects.
o Fluid Effects also includes an ocean shader for creating realistic open water. You can float
objects on the ocean surface and have those objects react to the motion of the water.
o You can create the following types of effects with Fluid Effects:
5. Types Fluid Effect
Dynamic fluid effects
Oceans and Ponds
Non-dynamic fluid effects
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Behave according to the natural laws of fluid dynamics, a branch of physics that uses
mathematical equations to calculate how things flow. Maya simulates fluid motion by
solving the Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics equations at each time step.
3D fluids inherently require extra data to define them, which can make them very large.
This extra data can slow a dynamic simulation exponentially because more calculations
(solving) must be performed at every step of the simulation. For a less memory intensive
effect, you can use a 2D fluid (with less data), or you can create a non-dynamicfluid.
Create Ocean and Pond fluids to simulate large realistic water surfaces, such as stormy
oceans with foam and swimming pools. Oceans are NURBS planes with ocean shaders
assigned to them. Ponds are 2D fluids that use a spring mesh solver and a height field.
6. What does fluid effects support ?
Naver Stokes based Fluids
o Smoke.
o Clouds.
o Explosions.
o Fire.
o “Goo” type-stuff.
Ad-Hoc / Mass-Spring fluids
o Oceans.
o Ponds.
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
65. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN
What is Visor Library ?
To open the Visor:
o In main menu bar: Editors > General Editors >
Visor.
o In scene view: Panels > Panel > Visor.
66. Using Visor:
Step 1: Open Visor.
Step 2: Select type effect template.
Step 3: Drag and drop to screen view.
Step 4: Edit template.
WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY