topic Re: Engine Flare in Maya Dynamics Forum

Engine Flare

Anonymous — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:15:34 GMT

Hey!

I recently started a new basic spaceship model in Maya. Now I'm stuck with the engines. it is very frustrating to achieve the flares behind the engines like in the pictures under this post. I tried houdini with the same bad result. Is there an easy way in Maya 2018 with Arnold or is there another trick?

Thanks for helping!

Timon

Re: Engine Flare

mspeer — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:18:09 GMT

Hi!

Without knowledge about your setup it's impossible to say where the problem.

There is a wide variety how to create such an effect in a 3D software (animated textures, particles, fluids/volumes, even animated geometry)

Re: Engine Flare

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:01:38 GMT

Thank you for your reply!

It's a simple animated ship with an engine. I thought particles would be the best solution, but i wasnt able to get a flare effect with the Arnold renderer.

It would be awesome if you could describe a way how to get something like that. For an approach how something like that is implemented in typical sci-fi films, I would be very grateful.

Timon

Re: Engine Flare

mspeer — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:44:28 GMT

Hi!

Sorry i don't do tutorials here. There also is not only one way like i stated before.