Hi!

I'm on my way to buying this product just curious to know how / if we can create volumetric light like in this picture?

The light from the windows


Much appreciated.

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My 2nd year animation using furryball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9e718K_3Q

That would also be great to see how you achied this.

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Maya 2012 SAP.

nono i did not make it . I'm asking how to acheive that effect,

unless you meant how AAA studio made it, in which case yes i'm also interested !

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My 2nd year animation using furryball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9e718K_3Q

Yes I am talking to AAA.
Sorry.

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Maya 2012 SAP.

Very simple - make volume cloud with fog in Maya Fluids, and aim a light into it. Thats all.

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Have you assigned the mesh of the window as a collision object to the Fluid to make it match perfectly the shape of window?
In this case for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6tZsdtHMfo

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Maya 2012 SAP.

The window geometry and the table, etc, cast shadows which are normally received by the fluid. They can be anywhere, between the fluid volume and the light or even inside the fluid volume. In order to make the fluid "disappear" where the shade is, increase "Shadow Transparency" in FurryBall fluid settings/attributes.

EDIT: haha like the above mentioned. i was too slow with reply

Ok i'm kind of getting there,

i just want to make sure i'm doing it right because it makes my scene very slow, is that normal?

anyway wolva, create a 3d fluid container, make it big enough so that the light can shine where you wan't the volume.

Then add a furryball fluid attribute and override maya samples + turn on transparancy on fluid shadows (this will give your light window shape, because everywhere your light casts a shadow it will be transparant)

like this in my quick test

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My 2nd year animation using furryball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba9e718K_3Q

YOU ROCKS!
Thank you so much guys, will try this tonight.

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Maya 2012 SAP.

To make it faster enable depth jitter in regular fluidShape settings (it works in furryball too).

And set lower number of samples (its better to set it using number of samples in Furryball fluid node as it allows you to set in as a float number, therefore it gives you more freedom )

Thats is ... you should be able to make it run almost realtime