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Learning Maya 7: The Special Effects Handbook

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Create materials and textures.

Chapter 2: Set up lights and cameras.

Chapter 3: Work with shadows and raytracing.

Chapter 4: Learn to control your renders.

Chapter 5: Understand rendering for special effects and compositing.

Chapter 6: Explore hardware rendering and vector rendering.

Chapter 7: Create Caustics and Global Illumination effects.

Chapter 8: Understand Final Gather and HDRI techniques.

Chapter 9: Create Maya and mental ray Shaders.

Chapter 10: Create and animate Rigid Body objects.

Chapter 11: Create and animate particles using fields, goals, ramps and expressions.

Chapter 12: Render particles with hardware graphics and software techniques.

Chapter 13: Dynamically animate NURBs and polygonal surfaces using Soft Bodies.

Chapter 14: Utilize Artisan functionality in conjunction with Maya Dynamics tools.

Chapter 15: Instance geometry with particle motion.

Chapter 16: Use Dynamic Constraints including Rigid Body constraints and soft body springs.

Chapter 17: Optimize and troubleshoot dynamics scenes.

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