 | | | Environment fog and blend range - anyone? | Environment fog and blend range - anyone? 2003-11-24 - By Niall Flinn
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Have you thought about using either a volume cube primitive, or a maya fluids
container (with no dynamics)? I find these *much* easier to control than
environment fog - you can just project density/opacity into them, or in the
case of fluids, there is a range of built in ramps and noise...
HTH
N
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:59:35 +1300
"Kevin Mannens" <kevinmannens@(protected)> wrote:
> I am having a some difficulties creating a nice gradual transition in my
> environment fog using the Blend Range attribute.
>
> I am using normal (not physical) fog with Use Height ticked on. This is
> because I just want fog right under the ceiling of my building - and not on
> the floor. The transition from no fog to gog is to harsh so I tried changing
> Blend range. Unfortunately this has no effect whatsoever. Can anyone shed
> some light on how to use this? Or is this tool broken?
>
> I also tried mapping a ramp to the Use layer attribute for the same
> purpose - with little success. Mapping a solid fractal to the layer
> attribute gives a predicatble effect, but using a ramp to control the
> graduation eludes me.
>
> Any input greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers -
> k|m
>
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