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Version: createPixieDust v0.2
Written By: Hemant Singh Sikarwar
Contact: contacthemants@gmail.com
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DESCRIPTION:
Pixie dust is MEL script based automated fantasy (magical) dust creation script with twinkle
effects. Which use a sequence of optical FX images to generate dust effects..
LOAD SCRIPT:
1). Copy the script in Maya script editor.
2). Type "createMotionTrack" command in Maya command line.
OPTION DESCRIPTION:
Name:
Specify the root Node/root Group name. By default it is set to “pixieDust”.
Prefix:
Add prefix to identify the group component/child. Help to prevent name conflict.
Suffix:
Add suffix to identify the group component/child. Help to prevent name conflict.
OPTICAL LIBRARY:
Source Directory:
Specify the optical image library source path.
Use Image Sequence:
Use multiple optical image sequences.
Note: the optical image library is based on naming convention and it should be in the form of
“opticalfx.#.iff”
PIXIE DUST ATTRIBUTES:
Dust emission speed:
Dust particle emission speed.
Secondary emission speed:
Dust particle tail emission speed.
Spread:
Increase the dust particle spread.
Dust emission rate:
Dust particle density.
Secondary emission rate:
Dust particle tail density.
Spread rate:
Spread particle density.
Spin frequency:
Particles spin frequency.
Twinkle size:
Dust particle size.
Twinkle frequency:
Speed up the twinkling speed.
Twinkle offset:
Randomize twinkling per particle.
Tail size:
Define the length of the pixie dust tail size.
MOTION PATH:
Attach to motion path:
Attach dust node to specified motion path.
Select motion path:
Specify the motion path curve.
SCRIPT DEMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxW4uCUX5A0
Please use the Feature Requests to give me ideas.
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