Little advice from my friend

After using fire particles I needed to increase the length of flame and length of animation. So seeking advice from my good old friend Clym he suggested to click particle 1 in the outliner and increase the fire life span and change density as well as increase the timeline so I increased the timeline from 24 to 300.

Lighting effect problem with flame

Had problem with lighting effect appearing for candles. So I re-installed Maya10 selected shaders again. Just trying some animating. just got to get candle flame effect right again.

Awesome tutorial on candle flame by Alex Alvarez

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/candle/candle.html.

Wll look at a little later today.

flaming torch

Quick movie of flame in torch. I need to adjust so I can get the flames longer and flickering.

Lighting Torches

Thought I'd try dynamics for the torches. I just selected a nurbs sphere that will emit fire particles. Sphere>dynamics>fire> To see the effect move the time slider so you can see the reaction. on the right side panel see attributes to edit.

http://www.3dallusions.com/forums/maya-tutorials/2870-making-fire-tutorial-autodesk-maya.html

Planning

Hoping we can start animating and compositing today!

Nightmare problems when I got home. Not what you want!

Had real problems when I got back I wanted to start lighting ...to at least do some tutorials online ready for me to light futuristic church and light torches with dynamics and sort out problem with candles effect not showing. I wasn't able to access the Internet and I needed it for tutorials and downloading Maya 10.

Wasn't able to activate it on my PC. Even when transferring network cable. In the end I had to take my laptop to a friends house so I could continue working.

I installed Maya 10 Student copy so that I was was running same Maya as Nath and Guy.