Mushroom Cloud Explosion Or Nuke2d.ma

[pete-latrofa]

I need help either getting Maya's Fluids example file - Nuke2D.ma to render out at a film quality level. Or I need to find a good tutorial on how to make a high quality mushroom cloud explosion. Maya has that quicktime sample movie called NuclearBlob.mov. And apparently they did it using the Fluids sample files. But I can't get it to look as good as their render. Can anyone help me with this?

I found the russian tutorial and even with the translation to english I still can't understand what the hell it's saying. Does anyone know a good tutorial on the web or dvd's to purchase or hell, if you even have a good one i'll consider buying it from you.

Thanks!

[fxnurbs]

there is some dvd's from gnomon or digital tutors talking about fluids and probably that.

If your camera don't move, i suggest you to start with the nuke 2d and try to improve it, fluid are often a lot of "cooking time"

check the texture, replace the blast on the ground by an other rendering... finish it in comp, don't try having the perfect render directly in maya, go the best you can and use multiples diffrents render to mix and having a better result.

good luck
Jaz

[bjohnston]

Does it need to be Fluids? Check out http://www.finalight.com/-/maindir/webpage...er/\_ABT1\_SD.php. They have some pretty cool mushroom footage that you can use as a texture.