However, this is a great premise for rigging problems solving in general, and something that Maya is accommodating – where often times you can use Maya nodes in create ways other than their intended purpose.
Alsh3lan writes: A lot of Dmm users have a question >> how to emit particles from a dmm object so .. in this simple tutorial i’ll show you how to emit particles from a dmm object and how to control the particles emission by texture .
Duncan Brinsmead writes: This animation was created using Maya Fluids. The torpedo bubble trail is a single fluid node which is rendered both as a shadowed volume and a surface mesh. The mesh is transparent with specular highlights to simulate large bubbles, while the volume simulates fine bubbles.
There’s nothing creepier than a swarm of creatures or slimey goo! This tutorial by Stuart Christensen will guide you through some starting points and basic settings that you need to know in order to get your swarm on and make some super creepy swarms of your own. The mechanics are very simple, however there are infinite adjustments to make for the perfect look. So, play around with this concept and soon your brain will be swarmed with ideas to develop! Enjoy!
Also dealing with Retopoloy in Maya, Leonardo Covarrubias has created a tool for such a task; Inspired from seeing the RetopoG set out to create his own Basic Retopology Tool for Maya, and this was the birth of lcRetopoBasic for Maya. lcRetopoBasic for Maya makes use of Maya Live Surface features to draw new topology on a model and is written in PyMel. Check out the lcRetopoBasic for Maya post and lcRetopoBasic for Maya download here.
Andrew notes: “The head model is from Infinite Realities. Huge thanks to Lee for providing a great resource to the rendering community. It’s always useful to work with a high-quality asset! Check them out here: http://www.ir-ltd.net/”
Matthew Murray writes: Recently I have been looking into ways to optimize a pose library that I made. The pose information was stored using XML. This worked great and was all dandy, but my implementation always seemed a bit clunky, having to open and close the file read write and change the information, mainly having to traverse a hierarchy then store it in as a list to make changes before re-writing the pose. I read that others have used JSON which had heard of many times and since pretty much every coding language out there has support for it, it must must be a win right?
Amit Khanna writes: Here’s a way to output single matte pass for multiple objects/shaders using writeToColorBuffer node in Mental Ray. This is handy in situations when you want a combined matte pass for various shaders applied to multiple objects. For e.g: say you have a room where roof comprises of various elements like main roof, fan lights, false ceiling boards etc. Now to separate the complete roof in composite you would want a single matte pass but writeToColorBuffer node takes only single shader as an input.
Marco Giordano writes: i highly recommand to have a good understanding of maya rigging before watching this tutorial ) Hello everyone in this quick tutorial I’ m showing how to set up a wire deformer for a jaw. Since I used the same tecnique I explained before in other tutorials and then customized more , I did not go over again on the “old” stuff , so I highly suggest to watch the other tutorials about the wire deformer,which they can be found on my channel here on vimeo. Enjoy
EDIT: Later on I figured out parent constraint doesn’t always give the wanted behaveior if there is more then one controll between the parents so I switched to a node set up that can be explained with this expression :
(I’m a fan of maya nodes over the expressions so use nodes! 
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child.tx = (parent1.tx*0.33 + parent2.tx*0.66);
in case you used my script and scaled the controller to fit the rig . there is an attribute called “controllerInfluence ” on the main controller group that scale or reduce the influence of the controllers on the wire deformer .
So if you scaled you controller you need to fix the expression like that
child.tx = (parent1.tx*0.33 + parent2.tx*0.66)*controllerInfluence ;
and you need to make same expression in order to work for ty and tz.
Hope it helps
