Maya: MASH Flight and Radial Field

This tutorial shows how we can tame MASH Flights. We use a radial force field (from Maya particles basically) and feed it into the MASH Flight node. It will immediately stall the flocking motion of the cubes in our scene - until we loosen the grip of the radial field a little and give the cubes more freedom to fly.
Finally we attach trails, and I round this video up by giving you a hint: Add a profile NURBS curve to the trails!
See also the playblast: • Preview of a tutorial:...
If you work with the much more versatile dynamics if nParticle simulations, you can use MASH as well. See this tutorial about Particle Trails: • Maya: Trailin' Particl...

[@RayCaesar1111]

very nice tutorial. There aren't too many tutorials on Mash Flight using fields so this is very much appreciated.

[@mjparent222]

A little complex, but the effect is great. Thanks.

[@moneyblackblood]

Nice tutorial, thanks. A question: Do you know any way to have the animation start using the distribution set out in the distribution node? At the moment they all start on top of each other at 0,0,0

[@Uhr24]

could you ask your question here, please: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGK6fJWmpNCWo80