Maya tutorial: Complex Detail In Maya, Paint FX and Vray

Maya tutorial on creating detailed objects that we can paint onto surfaces and render with Vray using Maya's paint fx tool . Maya file here www.mayaguy.com
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[@KUNAL7995]

this is beyond science.._ This is so dope brother.. Loved your way of work

[@Onderwish]

can i do this in maya and arnold instead?

[@StarkRaveness]

Some great ideas there I can use, thanks a lot it looks fantastic.

[@basswizard6663]

Oh, thanks for tutor! Paint effects is really powerful tool.

[@keltart809]

its definitely a underated tool

[@jing2122]

Thanks for the video! But not sure how did you attract the (paint effect) 'red circle' to the polycube? Any shortcut you did at this step in the video?

[@naoremedisonsingh6035]

will it get too much time while rendering because of the numerous number of polygons

[@pinakisaha162]

Thanks

[@kemalardaalkin1068]

Can you explain how did you did your tubes project pleaseeeee or at least the way to bend the curves in more rectangular form.

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Do you mean this project arda ? philradford.myportfolio.com/tubes

[@kemalardaalkin1068]

Maya Guy , yes exactly this one :) If you help at least a glimse of the modelling something like this I would be really glad .

[@MayaGuytutorials]

@@kemalardaalkin1068 It was really easy. Just create a surface that is a bit uneven, create a poly cylinder, create a mash network using the cylinder, add the surface as a mash mesh, play with randomness settings and make a very high distribution. Add trails node (connect to nearest) play with various ways of lighting and vray shaders. That's all there is to it. Do you know how to use MASH ? if not I could do a tutorial on this . I am trying to find the file so that I can send it to you.

[@kemalardaalkin1068]

I learned how to use mash by your tutorials :) . I am trying to create a giant space frame with a particular unit so it becomes a bit harder to control the mash with some rules that you want to apply . But I will try it just now , if you can find any file that could help I will REALLLYYY APPRECIATE IT.

[@MayaGuytutorials]

@@kemalardaalkin1068 Sounds like fun ! I have looked through my whole machine and I must of lost it at some point, which is annoying. I will keep looking though. I will be doing more MASH tutorials very soon .

[@keithyakouboff8755]

As always, you kick ass bro. Question: That furry / strandy hair look.. That was a paintFX brush?? I've never seen that. It paints out curves only? And yes, Arnold will render curves as extruded cylinders.

[@bhautikpatel4996]

awesome dude..👏👏👏

[@ronydey2696]

This is it Thanks for these tutorials Myself rony an Animation CG & VFx Student from India one more thing is these autodesk maya versions 2018 or it's 2019??

[@MayaGuytutorials]

2019 dude ! thanks for watching

[@digitaldogsstudios6946]

Epic ... love this

[@dtoxicatedcaffe]

can i get that snkae file?

[@remobalcells4332]

Thanks for sharing!

[@TheDanGoldstein]

Awesome video, man, thank so much! I am trying this out with some of the other Paint Effects such as spaceGasPink in the Galactic folder... is there a way to get ones like these to render in Arnold? If I convert spaceGasPink to polys it still doesnt render. Thanks!

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Hey Dan .You can convert the paint fx to curves and then go into the curve shape attribute and under the Arnold tab turn on 'Render Curve' . Try this with one curve first to see the result.

[@TheDanGoldstein]

Thanks for the response! This does indeed get the curve to render for me. It shows up as a strand and I can make it a ribbon. However, it doesnt get the intended "space gas" like abstract to render out. Same happens when I use one of the paint fx cloud brushes, i can get the curve to render but not the cloud visual that its supposed to be. When I render it with the old Maya Software renderer, it does show up how its intended to, but would obviously rather not use that renderer. Is there another way?

[@MayaGuytutorials]

@@TheDanGoldstein Ah i see what you are saying now, you want the paint fx to actually render also. Paint fx doesn't render with arnold . Some of the paint fx render with Vray, not completely correctly though. The only way to render paint fx as they are meant to be is still maya software unless you are converting something like trees, grass, shrubs etc to polygons.

[@TheDanGoldstein]

@@MayaGuytutorials Damn, ya was hoping there would be a way to all just render with arnold some how. That stinks. Ah well, thanks again!

[@MayaGuytutorials]

@@TheDanGoldstein As said, you can render paint fx with Arnold if you convert to polys and change the shader on the new poly to an arnold shader, but not all paint fx convert well to polys.

[@angielcardoso2615]

Insane tutorial. Thanks.

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheChristianverse105]

Awesome tutorial dude, keep doing this shit!

[@jameswilkinson150]

Soz, looks a bit lame.

[@MayaGuytutorials]

Thanks.