This document provides an overview of particle materials in Maya Dynamics, including basics on shaders, color particles, textures, and examples. It discusses adding color to particles through materials, attributes, and expressions. Texture support is for sprite particles, and the document explains how to create and apply textures from Photoshop. Examples include an exploding emitter and slow motion raindrops.

1. Maya Dynamics Basics
Lab 6: Particle Materials
Author: Khieu Van Bang
Email: tribang.nd@gmail.com

2. CONTENTS
 Basics:
 Shaders/Materials.
 Working with color particle : color, expression, expression shader, ...
 Texture :
 Which type Particle, we can use texture ?
 Create textures on Adobe Photoshop.
 Apply textures to particles.
 Examples:
 Create a spacecraft flying in the sky stars.

3. Particle Materials
1) COLOR

4. Particle Materials
1) COLOR
1.1) Shaders/Materials.
1.2) Working with color Particle.

5. 1.1.1) Shaders/Materials.
1.1) Shaders/Materials
 Define an object’s substance.
 Surface textures .
o How light is reflected.
 Surrounding environment.

6. 1.1.2) Basic attributes of materials.
1.1) Shaders/Materials
 Color
o Change basic color.
o Apply a texture as a color map.
 Transparency
o Change basic transparency.
o Apply a texture as a transparency map.
 Shine
o Change the intensity and size of the specular highlights of an
object.
o Apply a texture as a specularity map.

7. 1.1.2) Materials Types
Anisotropic: This material has elliptical specula highlights.
Blinn: Provides soft circular highlights and is good for metallic surfaces.
Lambert: This material has no highlights and is useful for cloth and non-reflective
surfaces.
Layered Shader: Combines several shaders into one single shading object.
Phong: Provides hard circular highlight and is good for glass surfaces.
Phong E: Similar to Phong, but optimised to render faster.
Shading Map: This material allows for colour changes to the rendering which
provides cartoon shading.
Surface Shader: Provides a connection to a surface material attributes.
Used Background: Allows for adjustment and control of an objects shadows and
reflections.
1.1) Menterial particle templates

8. Particle Materials
1) COLOR
1.1) Shaders/Materials.
1.2) Working with color Particle.

9. 1.1) How to add color to Particle ?
1.2) Working with color Particle
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10. 1.2) Add Attributes
1.2) Working with color Particle
Step 1: Select component “ Add Dynamic Atributes”.
Step 2: Add attributes.
Step 3: Change attributes.

11. 1.3) Color Expression
1.2) Working with color Particle
Step 1: Select component “ Add Dynamic Atributes”.
Step 2: Select attribute(Right click).
Step 3: Wite code.

12. RampMap
1.2) Working with color Particle
1.3) Color Expression
Step 1: Create Ramp.
Step 2: Edit Ramp.

13. Particle Materials
2) TEXTURE

14. 2.1) Which type particle, we can use texture ?
2) TEXTURE
 Type of Particle: Sprites

15. 2.1) Create texture in Photoshop
2) TEXTURE
 Step 1: Create text.  Step 2: Slect text content.
 Step 3: Create Alpha Channels.
 Step 4: Save as “.TIF” file.

16. 2.2) Apply textures to particles.
2) TEXTURE
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17. 2.2) Control textures with expression.
2) TEXTURE
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18. 2.2) Control textures with expression.
2) TEXTURE

19. 2) TEXTURE
How to create it ?

20. Particle Materials
3) EXAMPLES

21. 3) EXAMPLES
3.1) Create a Emitter with explosion shader.

22. 3) EXAMPLES
3.2) Slow motion rain drops.

23. Thanks!