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How to make a burning laser with fire and smoke
Burning Laser Effect in Maya from Gabriel Gumucio on Vimeo.
This tutorial assumes that you have an intermediate knowledge of Maya.
Import the geometry
Download the scene here:
www.gabrielg.se > Tutorials > Effects tutorial "Burning laser"
Load up the scene file, which includes the following geometry:- Plate
- LaserCannon and LaserBeam
- Motion Path curve (MotionPath)
- Glowing Sphere (LaserImpactGlow)
Set up animation
- Create a Locator
- Rename it MotionPathLocator
- Select MotionPathLocator and MotionPath and go to Animate>Attach to Motion Path> (Options)
- In the Options, choose Start/End, and enter ”50” as Start Time and ”290” as End Time
Now, let's make the laser beam follow the locator.
- Select MotionPathLocator and LaserCannon (in that order)
- Go to Constrain>Aim> (Options)
- Enter the following values: Aim vector: 0, 1, 0 Up vector: 1, 0, 0
You should now see the laser beam follow the Locator. But it moves linearly, lacking elegance. Let's make the motion a little more interesting.
- Select MotionPathLocator and find the U Value attribute in the Channel Box.
- Scrub to all the frames where the Locator makes an abrupt turn and set a keyframe on U Value at each such frame.
- Select all the keys by click-dragging in the Time Slider, right click and choose Tangents>Flat
Key Shader values
Let's animate the laser beam's shader, to make it turn on and off.- In the Hypershade, select LaserBeamShader
- Go to frame 40 (10 frames before the beam starts to move) and change the Incandescence color to Black.
- Right click and choose Set Key
- Go to frame 50 (where the beam starts to move) and change the Incandescence color to Red (or the color of your choice) with Value (V): 2
- Right click and choose Set Key
- Repeat this operation, but reversed, at the last key frame of your motion path.
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Comments
how can i download
Hi Narendra,
just follow this link here:
http://www.creativecrash.com/downloads/scene-files/c/scene-file-for-tutorial-burning-laser-effect
There is the scene file for the tutorial.
Good luck!
I wish this went more into detail as to what each change did and why. Maybe it'd be easier to follow as a video
Hi Lancer78,
You're right. I am working on a new and improved version which will be more explanatory.
I would loveeee a tutorial video with this! sweet animation :)
Let me know if you have made one :D
(L)
Thank you.
Extremely helpful tutorial! I worked through it will little problem. I decided to not use autoresize for the fluid and instead made it the same size as the plane image. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
(+﹏+)my maya is 2009
“Now, switch to the TrailEmitter tab.
In Basic Emitter Attributes, set the following keyframes for Rate: 10 frames before the TrailEmitter starts to move, value 0.”
which value ?min distance or max distance?
my emitter type is omni,cycle emission is none
EXCELLENT!!
Great Effect!
realy great tutorial, but Video would be perfect
Excellent!Thank you.
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