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1. Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Topic by imbueFX · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   Hey all, I'm back to share my latest tutorial on imbueFX.com. This is an advanced level set that covers how to generate flow maps with Maya Fluids, and how to utilize the motion vector data in your particles. I also introduce the concept of combining flow maps with detail flow maps. Take a look at the first chapter on…

2. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Reply by sinistergfx · Feb 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   Great tutorial! I hope to see more people utilizing flow maps for cool effects! For those interested, I made a couple Photoshop actions for working with flow maps: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1781778&postcount=154

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   Reply by imbueFX · Feb 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   Thanks Will! And thanks for putting that action script together, I've had a few people ask me already if there was a way to do the math outside of UDK. Cheers!

4. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Reply by imbueFX · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   I started thinking about that the other day in my head, there's no way (that I know of) for the material to influence the position or velocity of a particle. I should sit down and play around with that to see what I can find. However I hear that UE4 has some new particle-specific material expressions that will help for…

5. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Reply by Computron · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   :thumbup:

6. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Reply by passerby · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   also a thing im very curious about is if a method like in your tut would work with flow maps using world coordinates, so you can effect the flow by where the particle is in the world?

7. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

   

   Reply by passerby · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   ya i figured it out since in the save dialog it pops up you will see the file filter dropdown is show the wrong thign all togeather.

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   Reply by imbueFX · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   Wow it's really that simple of a fix?!? Thank you for pointing that out! I plan on doing a follow up chapter next week, so I'll add that in there :)

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   Reply by passerby · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

   hey you mentioned the export problem with the paint fluids tool, all you have to do is manually add the extension, due to a little bug. so instead of just select tiff and typing a name and saving make sure it is name.tiff before saving. i got that option to work fine in maya 2012

10. Re: Tutorial: Flow Maps & Advanced Materials in VFX

    

    Reply by imbueFX · Jan 2013 · Home› General Discussion

    Thanks guys, I hope you enjoy this one :)