本教程是由SimplyMaya机构出品的Maya雨滴粒子动力学教程，时长：24分，教程使用软件：Maya，大小：101.24 M，MPEG视频格式，语言：英语。

Maya 是目前世界上最为优秀的三维动画的制作软件之一，主要是为了影视应用而研发的，所以在出世后不久就在《精灵鼠小弟》、《恐龙》等这些大片中一展身手。除了影视方面的应用外Maya在三维动画制作，影视广告设计，多媒体制作甚至游戏制作领域都有很出色的表现。初识Maya 是目前世界上最为优秀的三维动画的制作软件之一，它是Alias|Wavefront公司在论坛1998年才推出的三维制作软件。虽然相对于其他老牌三维制作软件来说Maya还是一个新生儿，但Maya凭借其强大的功能，友好的用户界面和丰富的视觉效果，一经推出就引起了动画和影视界的广泛关注，成为顶级的三维动画制作软件。

Simply Maya Particle Dynamics Rain

Welcome to this Simply Maya tutorial on making it rain where we’ll cover the start to finish process of creating an animation of falling rain with ground splashes. This project is designed specifically to help you take your first steps in using Maya’s particle dynamics system.

Particle Simulations in Maya

Emitters & Colliders

Randomizing Particles

Creating Rain & Ground Splashes in Maya

Maya Air Daemon

Maya Gravity Daemon

We start off in part one by creating an emitter for our particles and proceed to making an air deamon to help make our particles occur at random. Here we take a look at some of the basic particle attributes and how to adjust our settings to get a nice simulation. In part two we make a collider object to give our rain a surface to fall down on before we rr-sc.com create proper rain splashes by using the Maya Gravity Daemon.

This tutorial is done in Maya 2011 although you can follow along in older versions of Maya as well. We hope you’ll enjoy this short particle dynamics video and that it will give you a good start in working with Maya dynamics. Credit goes to Michael Mckinley from Zombie Studios for creating the original version of this tutorial. If you’ve previously downloaded our old rain tutorial you can download this one free of charge.

You might also want to check out our Particle Dynamics Snow, it’s similar to this tutorial but covers some different tools and techniques which can be very useful when working with Maya’s particle dynamics system.