BIM and others

Using the fire made with Maya (with some modification), I'm trying to realize a set extension of a footage downloaded from Digital Tutors. I've replaced the sky and placed mountain on the backgournd, with some color corrections. Here some images about the work in progress. In the next steps I'm going to insert other fire, some spaceship in the background and a 3D model rendered with Maya and Arnold. Stay tuned...

This is an example on how to use maya fluids to create fire. You can download the example file at this location https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq3ri39jxt44s83/testFire.mb Here the video of the simulation.

Today I'm trying to render some architectural models with the powerfull render engine from SolidAngle. The quality is too low but it seems to be very impressive. In the next days I'm trying some other render.

Take a look at cgcircuit if you're interest in c++ plugin programming There're 3 courses about c++ and plugin creation for maya http://www.cgcircuit.com/browsepage.php?op=1&val=6 and a course about math insisde deformations http://www.cgcircuit.com/lessondetailcomplete.php?val=599

As Autodesk Approved Instructor I'm happy to learn about the latest Autodesk acquisition. Take a look at this news... http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?id=20307972&siteID=123112

How to use: Select the object to contrain SHIFT+Select all the object that must constrain the first one Execute the script On the target object there's a new attribute called "parentTo" and you can select from list. Now I'm trying to resolve the snap problem and create a simple pyQt interface... This is the base script you can add to the Shelf _________________________________________________ import maya.cmds as cmds attrString = '' selection = cmds.ls (sl=True) target = selection[0] l = len(selection) for i in range(1,l):     cmds.group(em=True, n = 'grp_' + selection[i])     cmds.select('grp_' + selection[i],selection[i])     cmds.parent()     cmds.select('grp_' + selection[i],target)     cmds.parentConstraint(mo=True, weight=1)     cmds.select(cl=True)     attrString += selection[i] + ':'       cmds.select(target, r=True) cmds.addAttr(ln='parent...