Hello everybody! I am stumped on a problem that I can't seem to find on the internet so I am coming here and seeing if I could get some help. I wanted to make Lightning in Maya and then render it with Arnold to make it look amazing, though I can't find tutorials online that show me how to do this properly. Only to render…
@musashidan It's all good man, I have been going at this project for a while now and I would totally go with your method, but I wanted to see if I could actually do it in Arnold, since what I am essentially putting around the lightning is a glass bottle. So it's lightning or electricity in a glass bottle. I have made a…
Hey mate, I replied to this when it said(or at least I'm sure it said) lighting, not lightning. :D If you can create the effect in Maya then try and set up an emissive shader in arnold. Isn't there a specific tool in Maya that create a geometry based lightning effect out of the box? Lightning shader effect is really…
I also hate to say "just google it" but there are a vast number of tutorials on the subject. The easiest way to jump in and get some geometry down is under the FX menu, Effects>Lightning, or set up a paintfx system. Or this premade rig. The Arnold material would be just a simple emissive white, tinted with whatever color…