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Capabilities and Design of Paint Effects Paint FX FAQ for Maya

Capabilities and Design of Paint Effects:
• I have an Animation to do where a character spits fire. I'd like to do it with Paint FX, animate the clip values of a soft body curve where a brush is attached. Looks good so far, the only thing I can't figure out is the effect that at the end of the path the flames should be bigger than at the beginning. I have no tablet available where I can use the stylus pressure, but there must be a way to map this. (updated: 03/13/05)
• What is the difference between the brightness rand and the color rand parameters? (updated: 03/13/05)
• I've painted a logo in vines onto an object. Can I turn the strokes on the object into a texture map that roughly matches the placement of the strokes? (updated: 03/13/05)
• If you use the paint on view plane option, then you decide you want to detach those strokes from your view plane, how do you do that? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Creating a 2D painting with editable strokes (updated: 03/13/05)
• Getting Depth Output from Canvas I'm making the fibers (microscope view) of a toilet paper. ....but I need the depth information of the fibers.although Ive painted with depth on, when I do "save Depth as Grayscale" it doesn't save anything. (updated: 03/13/05)
• So has anyone worked with both Renderman and Maya using Z depth to comp? Will this work for paint effects? (imagine a character walking through grass). (updated: 03/13/05)
• Is there some kind of RenderPass (ala Fur) that happens in the renderer..(and heres the real reason for the question..will any instanced geometry pass over to say RenderMan?) (updated: 03/13/05)
• Let us paint on non-nurbs! If the split poly tool and artisan can somehow follow the surface of a poly object, the paintfx tool should be able to, no? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Why doesn't paint effects evaluate shading networks? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Are all attributes texturable and connectable, e.g. can one use maya textures (procedural) to texture colour? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Will paint effects cast shadows, including shadows from volumetric lights? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Can PaintFX be 3D motion blurred and ray-traced? (updated: 03/13/05)
• If one maps textures to them can the textures be anti-aliased? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Can one specify all the same attributes on the strokes as on the materials? I.e. can they be bump, specularity, transparency and diffuse-mapped? (updated: 03/13/05)
• How could we use this digital toolset to simplify and speed up our current use of projected artwork on 3d sets, props, etc. ? (updated: 03/13/05)
• Building custom brushes from production designed, art directed, flat artwork. (updated: 03/13/05)
• How can one brush stroke give a fully modeled 3d leafy tree with turbulent wind controls and render in less than 1 minute a frame ? (updated: 03/13/05)
• How does it relate to 2dPaint+3dCamera paradigms with its inter-related use of 2d paint brushes with 3d geometry and animation controls ? (updated: 03/13/05)
• How can paint effects model with such organic complexity and render so fast using so little memory ? (updated: 03/13/05)


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