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a Mathematical DG Node

Many of you probably knows about the sineNode available in the Maya devkit written in C++ and/or Python. This example is very useful if you interested running the sin() function. But there is several limitations which make this example a bit dry. First, it is just the sin() function and with this approach it means you would need to create as many 'math' node you want mathematical functions. Second, it has one input and one output parameter only, so it... Read more →

Maya Fluid Shader

Today, we will talk about the dedicated Maya fluid shader workflow. Usually people who has their own fluid shader wants to mimic the Maya one, so we review in details what one needs to do. The general flow of the fluid shading computation is: Compute the desired grid values for a point within the volume for example density or temperature the value at the point is determined by the grid values interpolated using the desired interpolation method (described in the... Read more →