 | | | Environment fog and blend range - anyone? | Environment fog and blend range - anyone? 2003-11-24 - By Aleksandar Stiglic
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I found fluid example - under CloudsAndFog - rolling for to be excellent for
nice looking
realistic fog, plus you can add particles to be influenced by it, so you can
get additional
effects like particle dust, or whatever you need really...
Al
Niall Flinn wrote:
> 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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