Maya Complete Versus Maya Unlimited: What More Would You Get?


Maya Complete contains a majority of Maya's features, and it meets the needs of most animators. This book covers only the features of Maya Complete. Four unique modules are added for those who purchase the upgrade to Maya Unlimited:

  • Cloth This module allows you to define a clothing pattern and stitch it to a character, and then have the cloth move realistically in reaction to the character's motions. You can simulate cloth-like effects with good results by using Maya Complete's soft-body dynamics, but for characters wearing clothes, Maya Unlimited offers an elegant and complete solution.

  • Fur Like cloth, the fur applied with this module moves realistically in reaction to motions of the character it's applied to. It also calculates and renders quickly. It's not designed to create the effect of long hair. You can simulate fur with good results using Maya Complete's Paint Effects, but it doesn't bounce in reaction to character movement and takes longer to render.

  • Live This module can analyze live-action footage, deduce the camera position, and then create a virtual camera in Maya that's animated exactly the same as the real-world camera. This feature enables perfect compositions of CG elements into filmed real-world backgrounds as well as putting filmed foreground objects (usually filmed against a blue screen) into CG environments.

  • Fluids New in Maya 4.5, fluids make it possible to simulate smoke, fire, clouds, liquids, lava, and other fluid materials quickly and easily. The Fluids module also includes a water and terrain simulator for making environments such as turbulent oceans or craggy mountainscapes. A full palette of settings appears in Visor for Maya 5 Unlimited installations.

These modules, when enabled, appear seamlessly in Maya as additional pull-downs or modes.



Maya 5 Fundamentals
Maya 4.5 Fundamentals
ISBN: 0735713278
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 198

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