Dariusz Lacheta offers PFX a free animation script for Autodesk Maya which provides a super easy way to control paint effects growing tubes type of animation. Simple, but really great stuff here, this PFX script will work with Maya 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, windows or mac and its free – what more could you ask for, huh?!
pfx script from Dariusz on Vimeo.
Julian
I’d like to import a 3d tube knot for use as a paintfx brush. How do I do this?
lesterbanks
Unfortunalty paint fx doesn’t really work that way, you are limited to what you can create with a pfx brush that is limited to its attributes, so it’s not like you can build a model and make that a brush.
You can however use the paint scripts tool to use a model and “paint” or distribute that model either on surfaces or in space.