The document provides a comprehensive overview of Maya's fluid effects capabilities, detailing the creation and manipulation of fluid dynamics such as ponds and oceans. It discusses various components including dynamic and non-dynamic fluid effects, their simulation properties, and practical workflows for implementing these effects in virtual environments. Additionally, it includes guidance on utilizing the visor library for template-based effect creation.

1. Maya Dynamics Basics
Lab 11: Fluid Effect
Author: Khieu Van Bang
Email: tribang.nd@gmail.com

2. CONTENTS
 Overview Fluid Effect
 What is Fluid Effect ?
 What does fluid effects support ?
 Working with Fluid Pond
Learning contents: Create Pond; Fluid Attributes; Pond Wake; Emission Turbulence;
Shader Attributes; Match Object; Interactive; Simulation Quality; Make Collision;
InitialState; Keyframe Emission; Keyframe Object; Raytraced Water, ...
 Working with Fluid Ocean
Learning contents: Create Ocean; Customize Ocean; Control Render; Floating
Objects; Adjust Attribute; Motor Boats; Ocean Wake; Emitter from Object, ...
 Working with Visor Library
 Learn how to use templates.
 Create a virtual lab.

3. 1) OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Fluid Effect

4. What is Fluid Effect ?
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
 Is a technology for realistically simulating and rendering fluid motion. Fluid Effects lets you create a
wide variety of 2D and 3D atmospheric, pyrotechnic, space, and liquid effects.
o You can use the Fluid Effectssolvers to simulate these effects, or you can use fluid animated
textures for more unique, distinguishing effects.
o Fluid Effects also includes an ocean shader for creating realistic open water. You can float
objects on the ocean surface and have those objects react to the motion of the water.
o You can create the following types of effects with Fluid Effects:

5. Types Fluid Effect
 Dynamic fluid effects
 Oceans and Ponds
 Non-dynamic fluid effects
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Behave according to the natural laws of fluid dynamics, a branch of physics that uses
mathematical equations to calculate how things flow. Maya simulates fluid motion by
solving the Navier-Stokes fluid dynamics equations at each time step.
3D fluids inherently require extra data to define them, which can make them very large.
This extra data can slow a dynamic simulation exponentially because more calculations
(solving) must be performed at every step of the simulation. For a less memory intensive
effect, you can use a 2D fluid (with less data), or you can create a non-dynamicfluid.
Create Ocean and Pond fluids to simulate large realistic water surfaces, such as stormy
oceans with foam and swimming pools. Oceans are NURBS planes with ocean shaders
assigned to them. Ponds are 2D fluids that use a spring mesh solver and a height field.

6. What does fluid effects support ?
 Naver Stokes based Fluids
o Smoke.
o Clouds.
o Explosions.
o Fire.
o “Goo” type-stuff.
 Ad-Hoc / Mass-Spring fluids
o Oceans.
o Ponds.
OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT

7. OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Maya Fire

8. OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Maya Ocean
 2D height field – no crashing waves.
 Can attach ‘bouyant’ objects.

9. OVERVIEW FLUID EFFECT
Maya Pond
 2D height field.
o No splashing.
 Mass-spring system.
 Bouys, Boats, Wakes.
 Can run in real-time.

10. 2) WORKING WITH FLUID POND
Fluid Effect

11. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

12. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

13. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.1) Create Pond

14. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

15. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.2) Create Wake

16. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

17. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.3) EmissionTurbulence

18. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

19. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.4) Shader Attributes

20. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.4) Shader Attributes

21. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

22. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.5) Match Object

23. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

24. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.6) Interactive

25. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

26. 2.7) Simulation Quality
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

27. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

28. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.8) Make Collision

29. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

30. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.9) InitialState
1
2

31. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.9) InitialState
3
4

32. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

33. 2.10) Keyframe Emission
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

34. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

35. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.11) Keyframe Object

36. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

37. 2.12) Raytraced Water
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

38. 2.12) Raytraced Water
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

39. 2.12) Raytraced Water
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

40. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

41. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.13) Caching Fluid

42. 2) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS – FLUID POND
Fluid Effect
2.1) Create Pond
2.2) Create Wake
2.3) EmissionTurbulence
2.4) Shader Attributes
2.5) Match Object
2.6) Interactive
2.7) Simulation Quality
2.8) Make Collision
2.9) InitialState
2.11) Keyframe Object
2.10) Keyframe Emission
2.12) Raytraced Water
2.13) Caching Fluid
2.14) Smoothing Pond

43. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.14) Smoothing Pond

44. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND
2.14) Smoothing Pond

45. How to create it ?
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

46. How to create it ?
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID POND

47. 3) WORKING WITH FLUID OCEAN
Fluid Effect

48. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

49. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

50. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN
3.1) Create Ocean

51. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS- OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

52. 3.2) Preview Plane
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

53. 3.2) Preview Plane
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

54. 3.2) Preview Plane
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

55. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS- OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

56. 3.3) Floating objects
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

57. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

58. 3.4) Adjust Attribute
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

59. 3.4) Adjust Attribute
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

60. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

61. 3.5) Motor Boats
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

62. 3) PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - OCEAN
Fluid Effect
3.1) Create Ocean
3.2) Preview Plane
3.3) Floating objects
3.4) Adjust Attribute
3.5) Motor Boats
3.6) Ocean Wake

63. 3.6) Ocean Wake
PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN

64. 4) WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY
Fluid Effect

65. PRACTICAL SITUATIONS - FLUID OCEAN
What is Visor Library ?
 To open the Visor:
o In main menu bar: Editors > General Editors >
Visor.
o In scene view: Panels > Panel > Visor.

66. Using Visor:
 Step 1: Open Visor.
 Step 2: Select type effect template.
 Step 3: Drag and drop to screen view.
 Step 4: Edit template.
WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY

67. WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY
Using Visor:
1
2.1
3
2.2
2.3
4

68. Example 1 : Create fire for a virtual lab.
WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY

69. How to create it ?
WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY

70. You can create it
WORKING WITH VISOR LIBRARY

71. Thanks!