Maya Aero smoke tutorial

[@Conceptcreator]

Ok how is it soo smooth for you, I have a 2700x with 64GB of ram and it is truly stuggeling with these kinds of animations!!

[@vazak11]

That looked great!

[@elizaontheice]

Thank you for the video. Just so you know, the audio is very quiet. Hard to hear what you're saying even with the volume in KZbin and on my machine turned all the way up.

[@lukakoprivica]

That's it about Maya... all of its native tools are more powerful than anything simpler ones that are included in later iterations, but all parameters are completely provisional... sometimes it's enough to input 2, another time 50... nobody knows how or why. So, people are turning to addons, plugins... but... It's just Maya.

[@georgebroughton2135]

Nice Tutorial

[@RZDON007]

Sir I followed your this amazing tutorial but at last I am not able to accomplish the render with Arnold 5 in Maya 2018 like you got it shows the other objects nicely and I had set up the 1 Area Light like you did but aero smoke not showing in rendr at all. As I read many places including solid angle website which says "The BifrostFoamMaterial and BifrostAeroMaterial are no longer supported in MtoA for Maya 2018+ (they no longer translate to Arnold shader nodes)" without giving the alternative or new technique so please can you help me out with this problem as I have been stuck since past 2 days. Thank You Sir in Advance :)

[@naifox1]

can you please make a tutorial about smoke hand caching something

[@sravanthikacham]

why i cant see smoke in my viewport but in render i can see the smoke

[@thebrownleaf392]

Very awesome hope you make more turtorial about smoke

[@azlankhan8260]

When I try to add aero it doesn't move with the object ... help

[@쿼드러플-s4m]

does anyone know how to cache bifrost without using bifrost graph? i tried but it didn't work... :(

[@lexxrelaxx2016]

Hey gotta 2 question, is it workin with Arnold? And is circle smoke keep moving?

[@sparven7D]

How did that work on vray. Can u please say that it will be so helpful

[@RonnieMirands]

I tried everything. Seens its not more rendering in Vray. Just in arnold

[@sparven7D]

@@RonnieMirands yeah alter updating Arnold its working fine,thank u for ur concern.....😊

[@w.a.l.l.a.c.e.]

Thank you

[@ileavolkomurov]

Спасибо)

[@timmyng9560]

Hi , Phil Radford , thanks you for your work . It save my life . I have a question , why there are very few tutorial about "Biforst Aero" ? Is that people think Aero can't put into a real production ?

[@RexArtTv]

how would you attach the smoke to a moving object to animate?

[@azlankhan8260]

Did you got any solution ? Because when I try to add aero it doesn't move with the object

[@apextoso98]

@@azlankhan8260 he just group the mesh with the curve, freeze transformation to the mesh and just animate th group uwu

[@Taldisuiskai]

ad blasting so loud in my ears XD

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Sorry dude, back in the day my audio recording wasn't so good (a bit quiet) which is why you probably turned the audio up and got blasted by the ads. Not the case any more though. Thanks for watching and apologies for that !

[@MayaGuytutorials]

For anyone having problems with rendering Aero in either Arnold or Vray check out my video on 'rendering Aero with Vray and Arnold' .

[@YoUkNoWiiT420]

Dude your skill with Maya fluids is awesome man. I really enjoyed your Ghost Maya Fluid one alot. Sort of doing a project myself for school that would have that kind of effect. I'm debating on whether to get Fumefx for Maya or is that not really necessary? Anyways glad to see your still doing dynamics VFX!

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Hey dude, I dont think its really necessary to be honest. I am sure you could get the look you want with Maya's tools but it does depend on the shot. Very very complex looking fluid sims are often done in Houdini.

[@YoUkNoWiiT420]

Phil Radford Hey thanks for the fast response yeah the kind of shot I want to do is where you have the volumetric smoke / fog roll slowly on the ground coming from the side of a hallway and then forms into it like a ghost like creature then I want to do a like down Force reverse effect from how it formed in the first place here's a video that I think you'll like and find very interesting. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJa9iH18Z9ZsotE

[@YoUkNoWiiT420]

Phil Radford This second video is what I'm talking about the downforce but not as quite big n massive but like smaller scale. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4mxhISna5mlraM

[@raularosemena]

Hello dude, i hope you can help me, im having a problem with the aero rendering, it only renders near the maya grid, if my simulation is away from the maya grid, the render comes out black, no aero.

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Are you using Vray?

[@ghn5459]

hey！I have a problem Aero Can be created Bubbles in the water？

[@theleonards82]

Hi I'm struggling to get this rendered. It looks fine in Vray frame buffer as a still but when I try and render the sequence ( tried batch render and vray frame buffer render )you can see the sphere emitter animating but the aero just stays on one frame. Any suggestions? I've cached to disk but still the same problem.

[@muymalvado3055]

MERCI

[@apextoso98]

el frances xdxdxd

[@reeeeee987]

there's no motion field in maya 2016 :(

[@jamesdavis625]

My initial result doesn't look like yours when I first apply an aero to the sphere..... why is that? Are there different versions of bifrost?

[@MayaGuytutorials]

check out my video on 'rendering Aero with Vray and Arnold

[@Faceglitch]

Great Video, your voice recoding could be a bit louder tho :)

[@suspiciousstuff4999]

what where is sound

[@ataulfo6668]

Hello again,Phil. After giving up with Arnold I decided to change my whole scene to Vray,but now my problem is that I can't see anything on render view nor IPR,I mean,there are no aero voxels at all in my render, everything is ok except for the aero...I follow your tutorial and I thought that maybe is a cache problem...or I didn't place the material properly,but nothing seems to work...maybe some option that I haven't check on the render settings? I would appreciate some help because I stayed stuck with this project for months :( thank you very much in advance!

[@MayaGuytutorials]

HI, how are you lighting your scene? Also - you followed my steps exactly? If you cannot fix it email the scene file over and I will take a look at it for you.

[@ataulfo6668]

Hi, Phil. Thanks for answer. I follow your tutorial but adapted to my project...maybe Im missing something but I cant find out what :S I light my scene with a Dome Light, and the mesh is visible, it just doesnt render the aero at all. I'd tried to make a cache file using Alembic, but the result (after 45 minutes) is a 4kb file...so it doesnt seem to be right. I can send you my scene via mail, it could be simply great!! Thank you so much! (Its on your "strangebox" email already)

[@ataulfo6668]

My arnold render only a black cube for my aero simulation...I can see it properly on viewport, but only make a black cube from the container when I render it...any idea? Thanks in advance

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Hi, try hiding the bifrost particles but just leave the bifrost mesh to see if that works. Check that you have an arnold shader assigned also. Come back to me if that doesnt work.

[@ataulfo6668]

Phil Radford thanks for your answer! I just discovered that Maya 2018 doesn't support Aero Bifrost material for render,I used an AiStandard surface material with Smoke shader as volume,and it works great :) I hope that this helps somebody else

[@YumBubble911]

What is the smoke shader that you used for Arnold? cant find it

[@RZDON007]

did you find the solution?

[@RZDON007]

How to get Smoke shader? Please tell me. thanks in advance

[@larvenkarlsson440]

Really disgusting sniveling and drinking sounds all the time. Can't watch it

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Thanks for your feedback. Perhaps (like me) you suffer from misophonia. Ive been requested to make my audio louder, which I have but unfortunately it introduces all the noises that some humans make when they speak continuously for 13 minutes and with a collapsed nasal valve it's tough going .Try switching off the sound and using the subtitles. Have a good day.