Maya VFX Series: Dust Effect with Fluids

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In this tutorial, we learn how to use a 3D fluid container to generate dust when a military helicopter is landing on the ground. We start by analyzing the reference and think about the temperature, dust patterns, and force fields using real-life examples. Then we get things started in Maya using a simple 3D fluid container. We then add a force field to direct the density and use the emitter rate to control the amount of emission and its timing. I’ll be showing two different renders using Maya Hardware 2.0 and Arnold so you get a better understanding of the type of looks you can achieve in Autodesk Maya. Hope you find this tutorial useful and let me know how I did in the comments section.
Bookmarks:
00:00 Let's Get Started
00:50 Reference Analysis
03:39 Scene Analysis
06:10 3D Fluid Container
10:31 Fluidshape Node
15:25 Fluid rate
19:23 Emitter Attributes
22:50 Force Fields
30:15 Back to Fluidshape Node
34:18 nCache
39:14 Final Tweaks
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[@sarkamari]

Thanks for your great suggestion 🙏🏼

[@digitalrage5]

Great tutorials, it would be great to see in the near future a destruction tutorial with Maya

[@manojlogulic4234]

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[@Bart1260]

Thank you! I have been looking for this tutorial a long time already!

[@sarkamari]

Thank you Hessu.

[@shakeelshahid3145]

Amazing!! ...Good job dear, continue to make such that tutorial in every week. I always wait your videos. Your are the best instructor!

[@sarkamari]

Thank you Skakeel. Means a lot

[@shakeelshahid3145]

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[@debadyutibiswas6278]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial

[@fsalad]

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[@ever6]

wow this turned out good I now know where to come for vfx stuff that's for sure

[@sarkamari]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@raol635]

I like and comment even before watching. I trust your professional work. Thank you.

[@sarkamari]

Thank you

[@salazar665]

That one is soo important in vfx.. I've always thinked about the dusts when seeing movies..

[@sarkamari]

Glad to hear you're looking forward to watching this. Hope the video matches your expectations

[@sohailshaikh7180]

Ooh man gotta wait for 5 days

[@makeitlastmedia]

this is great

[@luckyenam6329]

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[@sarkamari]

Amazing to hear ❤️

[@avtpro]

This was very helpful. Thanks.

[@sarkamari]

Cheers

[@avtpro]

@@sarkamari Hi. Do you have any suggestions for controlling the flicker or make it less pop when it dissipates?
Thanks.
th-cam.com/video/dmGO8MdHmtc/w-d-xo.html

[@cristianorocha7782]

Show! Tank You!!

[@luisarellano1805]

thank you so much :)

[@sarkamari]

Glad you found it useful Luis

[@microbounce2009]

wow thanks

[@Hector-vw5jz]

It's for people like you that I still believe in humanity

[@sarkamari]

Thanks Hector

[@kinglaw1688]

would you do a tutorial of this same effect with bifrost graph ? please

[@raghavendra4633]

If we have a boat on a lake, what effects can we make, any particles so that it looks cool. In this tutorial, you showed dust effect is used on land

[@sarkamari]

It's a completely different effect. For the movement you can use the geometry constraint

[@devingee6463]

Thank you for the tutorial! I'm new to this so forgive me for the noob question. But how can I kill the emission after a while so that it looks like the dust settles after being kicked up?

[@sarkamari]

I have a 'How To' video on this actually. Hope this helps
th-cam.com/video/3J1qOXGYJLA/w-d-xo.html

[@devingee6463]

@@sarkamari Thank you I tried that at first but it didn't seem to work. I delete all of my keys and did it again and got it working! So the Flids stopped emitting them but how do I kill the one currently in the box? I feel like there should a a life time control some where.

[@rokuken]

I don’t know if this will work, but have you tried animating the box? Maybe shrink it overtime or flattening it might work? Just a thought. Can’t try it since I’m currently at work.

[@vishnumohanan7395]

Thanks for this tutorial👏👏.. btw it's not working with Arnold-gpu ... Is there any workaround?

[@sarkamari]

Thank you.
Unfortunately fluid cannot be rendered with the GPU. You may want to try Bifrost Aero for that.

[@kooinch2124]

Wow 😘🥰🥰

[@jithzz440]

Haii bro.. Is possible to export this fluid to unreal engine or any other 3d software?.. Then how?

[@princeskngh]

❤❤

[@zabusoe]

Very good tutorial and thank you. ( I can not adjust color. Color attribute is disable. What should I do?)

[@sarkamari]

Even with arnold everything should be handled via the Shading roll-out.
Not sure why the colour widget is disabled in your case though.

[@zabusoe]

@@sarkamari Thank for your kind reply. I had able to adjusted color already. It’s need to choose in dynamic.

[@sarkamari]

Excellent work

[@Kwerty98]

What exactly do turbulence and volume axis again? Because the vortex effect is already random and big, i even back and forth throught the simulation and saw no difference, please help

[@sarkamari]

Volume axis pushes the density in a particular direction whereas turbulence adds chaos to your density. :)

[@vallinborel9439]

Cool !!! How to render fluids effects with arnold GPU ???

[@alejandrobustamante8173]

i have the same question

[@sarkamari]

I do explain it in my candle flame tutorial but I might dedicate a video just to explain that topic

[@donaldegbuawa3439]

What’s the best configuration for a laptop ,when studying VFX.

[@sarkamari]

Hi Donald;
Difficult to say as it all comes down to your budget.
i have a video on my channel regarding workstations. same specs can be applied for laptops

[@yesminanimation]

how did you create the sky in maya hardware 2.0

[@sarkamari]

Just a simple skydome with an HDR image

[@simonsync7956]

This does not work for me, at the 10:00 mark where you go Fluid > Add/Edit Contents > Emit from object settings. After applying this then no fluids/particles are coming out of the emitter. Any reason why? My viewport is on show all as well so nothing should be hidden

[@sarkamari]

Make sure to select both the container and the object before you apply the tool.
Also in your viewpoint settings make sure shaded mode is on and the motion blur button is off.

[@kungfudalonso]

@@sarkamari Same thing happens (or doesn't) for me as well, Maya 2023.1, select both, viewport shaded, no motion blur and nothing happens. It does, however, work in Maya 2022 when I do it there. Same procedure, not sure what broke in Maya 2023.1

[@TheTopStarz]

Can this be rendered by Arnold ??

[@sarkamari]

Yes. I show the results at the end of this video using Arnold vs. maya H.

[@TheTopStarz]

@@sarkamari I finally finished watching the whole video but when I render with Arnold I get a white box, the container is just filled with white, how do i change this ? thanks for replying

[@sarkamari]

You need to tweak the Shading rollout to get the desired result. Watch my candle flame tut as I explain a bit more about the approach.

[@PardeepKumar-xc7il]

Sir how to create shadow..?

[@sarkamari]

Not sure what the question is Pardeep. The actual shadow info will get calculated by your lights in the scene. But if you wish to separate the shadow info for compositing it can be achieved via AVOs. Check out my Nuke Series for more info