Maya tutorial : How to create lightning in Autodesk Maya


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A quick and basic tutorial on how to create the effect of lightning in Autodesk Maya. If you have any questions or comments, please let me know. And if you would like me to make more vids like this or have specific requests, please subscribe.

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29 responses to “Maya tutorial : How to create lightning in Autodesk Maya”

  1. Have you figured out how to make this glow in Arnold? Maya Software and mental ray are pointless now. I've been working the past two weeks trying to figure out how to get the lightning to have a good glow effect with Arnold. I watched Arvid Schneider's videos. I've tried alSurface, surface shader, and mesh_light.

  2. Hi Mike, I'm here again with my usual weird error that nobody else has *sigh*. It's really discomforting lol. This time it's not really an error, but when I'm going to render this scene, I get just the two spheres and the lighting without the plane underneath. So the background is just pitch black except for the effect and the spheres. Why, Why, oh god why ahahah. Using mental ray it's better, it shows the reflection of the elettric effect, but it's just a small line, still the plane doesn't show up in its entirety like in your video.

  3. Is there a way to get rid of all of the markings (Such as the ones that move it,etc.) without the render? because I'm trying to create a box with a sphere on top that shoots lightning but the box doesn't show up in the render.

  4. Is there a way to make the lightning smaller? i'm trying to make sparks animation between pieces that are close together, but the method in the video keeps producing over sized lightning bolts for me.

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