Emitter

[Anonymous]

Hi @all,

i'm quite new to maya and have a little issue and hope to find help here 🙂
I want to use the fire effect. For that, I created a spline curve, made it to an emitter and assigned the fireshader to it. Looks pretty good so far. Now I wanted to let it start from a specified frame, I found the correct configuration, so that's also not the problem. Now I want to stop the emission of the particles again at a specified frame, but for that I didn't find any possibility until now 😞

A second thing I'm looking for ... I want to create a firebeam (I hope it's the correct word, it's not my mother tongue so I don't know all the words I need ... ). I tried to limit the directions of the emitter but it don't want to work as i want it to. And unfortunately I haven't found a tutorial yet.

Greetings
Senshi

[Anonymous]

Fire is nothing but the particles.
Particles are coming from curve.
Curve is an emitter.
So select the emitter attribute and go to > Basic emitter attribute > Rate(Particle/Sec)) and set key Rate.

Tips :

1 . After set key check the animation curve in graph editor and edit it according to the effect.

2 . If you are not starting the fire from 1st frame => eg. you are starting your fire from frame 24
then select the fire particle go to its attribute and see for "Time Attributes >Start Frame"and enter
24 or 20.Reason Maya will unneccessery not calculate the dynamics till frame 24.

For Fire beam put the emitter and particle in a group and when you want to animate the fire animate that group.So both emitter and particle will move together.