Maya 2017 - Duplicating MASH Falloff nodes

A run through the two ways of duplicating Falloff objects, along with a guide of how to sensibly share a MASH Falloff node between several MASH nodes.
This tutorial requires Maya 2017 Update 1!

[@jake0724]

Amazing videos. Very informative and somehow rather entertaining.

[@Headedtothetop1111]

Hey bro thanks for the tutorial. I really do I appreciate you taking time out to make these vids for the public. in the future can you please have your volume higher? Thanks again

[@mikhailkonstantin9927]

wow ! what a speach :)

[@kioly_ah]

learnt a lot!

[@prodamDivan]

Thanks for the great lesson !!

[@farzinmoayed2718]

thanx ian . more more tutorials PLZ

[@7lionAnimation]

welldone... thanks for the tutorial

[@pentecostesish]

thanks for this

[@ahahlex]

I don't why but the spring doesn't really work for me, when I add dumping I can see that it slows down the process but there is no oscillation... maya 2017 windows. maybe I missed something but your tuto is pretty clear...

[@ianwaters6035]

Hey Alexandre,
Is your playback speed set to play every frame? I'm not sure but it might help? Otherwise please send a scene and I'll take a look.
Best,
Ian

[@sohaibaljarih]

Thank you :-)

[@lukegreek4038]

Great Tutorial Ian! I am struggling with the MMB+Alt combo as well though. The problem being that even when I duplicate and connect the offset1 node to the Color node, it doesn't connect to the Mash_Offset output in any way. The only connection is to the Mash_Color node through the Falloff Out. Have you found a work around for this? Thank you for your time.

[@ianwaters6035]

Are you in 2017 Update 1 or above?

[@lukegreek4038]

I believe this is just the base 2017 version. I will update and try again, thank you for the guidance!

[@lukegreek4038]

I have been hunting for update one for hours now, any idea on where to find it? I have searched the Autodesk website and desktop app to no avail.

[@SHADRAGZ]

How can I move or scale the whole mash?

[@heweiping123]

I want to know how to constrain random rotation to 90 degree increments in MASH.

[@ianwaters6035]

The Python node, easy:
import openMASH
import random
#initialise the MASH network data
md = openMASH.MASHData(thisNode)
#this is how to get the frame number
frame = md.getFrame()
#and this gets the number of objects in the network
count = md.count()
random.seed(0)
#add the index to the Y position
for i in range(count):
multiplier = random.randint(0,6)
rot = 90*multiplier
md.outRotation[i].y=rot
#tell MASH to write the network data
md.setData()

[@heweiping123]

Thanks a lot

[@Kirin122]

Can you bake those movements from the mash to objects?

[@ianwaters6035]

Yes, use the utility Bake MASH Instancer to Objects under MASH > Utilities.

[@Vadim-tc5hk]

hi ian
looks like that the middle mouse drag then Alt to duplicate the falloff shape is not working on windows.
thanks

[@ianwaters6035]

Just to check, are you using 2017 Update 1?

[@Vadim-tc5hk]

yes

[@ianwaters6035]

I'll look into it, thanks for letting me know.

[@ianwaters6035]

Thanks Nadim, must be a Mac/PC thing.

[@AlicjaKraft]

For Windows...) are there changes in workflow ? I don't get why my color node doesn't work and also copying MMB+alt the follow obj. doesn't work. thanks

[@ianwaters6035]

Are you using Update 1+ ?

[@AlicjaKraft]

I did the update and it works perfectly, thank you