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Help on Beer Foam Shader

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gamesed

gamesed
Posted: 20 April 2010 06:47 PM

Location: Bangalore
Total Posts: 21
Joined: 26 September 2009 05:51 AM

hi,
i was working on a beer simulation where the beer pops out of the bottle.. so i am done with the simulation but now i am stuck with the beer foam shader, i did the simulation in real flow and have imported the generated mesh. It would be very helpful if someone can give me some idea on how to go abt it.. I tried using simple maya fast shader,but no success, not getting those bubbles kinda thing which u find in the foam.. Pls help.

Thanks,
Chetan

Chetan.V|Fx Artist
http://www.gamesedfx.com

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Ultimately it would depend on the geometry that was output from your simulation. If its a ton of bubbles then you would shade it on a micro level (taking into consideration the expense of such calculations) if its a solid piece of geometry then you would go about it a different way.

Either way I would probably use the miaX and use the attributes to good effect to simulate the look.
But really it comes down to the geo and implementation.

Author: TroyGBIV

Replied: 20 April 2010 07:22 PM

gamesed

gamesed
Posted: 20 April 2010 08:00 PM

Location: Bangalore
Total Posts: 21
Joined: 26 September 2009 05:51 AM
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hi thanks a ton, i will give it a try using miaX. I have got very limited knowledge in shading..so is there any tutorial on it or anything similar to it.

thanks,
Chetan

Chetan.V|Fx Artist
http://www.gamesedfx.com

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If you go to the mental images website and then go to Mental Ray as a product there should be a “documentation” option when that page loads on the right hand side is the miaX documentation file in pdf format.

Its in the maya help docs as well, but im currently unsure how to access it off hand.

Author: TroyGBIV

Replied: 21 April 2010 08:30 AM

gamesed

gamesed
Posted: 21 April 2010 04:50 PM

Location: Bangalore
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Joined: 26 September 2009 05:51 AM
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thanks a lot mate.

Chetan.V|Fx Artist
http://www.gamesedfx.com

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