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Maya Boss tutorial

mgr0704 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:59:34 GMT

I have been following the four part Maya Learning Channel's "Creating an Ocean" tutorial. Everything works fine until I get to adding a boat to get a wake. I have tried it several times with different wave height and wind settings and different collision objects and every time my ocean just explodes. I am sure it is pilot error, but it is odd that up to this point I get the exact results in the tutorial for my ocean. I include a screenshot. I can't seem to include the Maya file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

mgr0704 — Sat, 06 May 2023 13:10:55 GMT

Again, I ask for help.

I have been following the four part Maya Learning Channel's "Creating an Ocean" tutorial. Everything works fine until I get to adding a boat to get a wake. I have tried it several times with different wave height, generator amplitude and wind settings and different size collision objects and every time my ocean just explodes. I am sure it is pilot error, but it is odd that up to this point I get the exact results in the tutorial for my ocean. I include a screenshot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Even if I download the original tutorial Maya files themselves and hit play, the ocean explodes. The tutorial is from five years ago, this happens in Maya 2022 and Maya 2023 on a 16 core PC. Could something about Bifrost have changed since then?

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

morten.bojsen-hansen — Sun, 07 May 2023 10:58:47 GMT

Do you have a scene file you can share showing the problem?

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

mgr0704 — Sun, 07 May 2023 13:24:21 GMT

Hi morten.bojsen-hansen,

Thank you so much for responding.

I do not have permissions to attach my file, but if you go to the Maya Learning Channel tutorial here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-8ow82gQw8&t=185s

You can download their files. If you open

HTM_BOSS_Ocean_part4_end.ma

You will find the same problem, or should at least. No matter what numbers I plug into the BossGeoProperties1 of the BossWaveSolver1, the ocean explodes. If I disable the Generator, the ocean does not explode, which makes me think the problem is there.

Thanks again.

Best,

Mike

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

emmad_ilyas_75 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:53:43 GMT

I have the same exact issue and following the same tutorial, doing anything makes the Ocean explode. following the offcial tutorial.

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

sepu6 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 02:52:01 GMT

I would do this in the graph nowadays. It's faster and procedural. Which also makes it easier to debug

Re: Maya Boss tutorial

matthiasprince00 — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 22:26:17 GMT

If you mean this tutorial:
https://youtu.be/O-8ow82gQw8?si=nb2VrFNy_lv1qfGN
The problem for the ocean exploding is @ timestamp 2:53
Related to the Resolution.
Do not use values like 600x600, instead, try power of 2 number, like 512x512 or 1024x1024 and that should solved it.