In Creating Particle and Fire Effects with Maya, author Aaron F. Ross employs Maya particles and fluids to generate stunning special effects simulations, including exploding fireworks, tumbling snowflakes, and burning flames. Following a project-based approach, the course shows how to emit and render particles, write expressions to control and fine-tune effects, and animate and shade dynamic fluids. Tutorials on batch rendering and compositing in After Effects are also included. Exercise files accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Laying out the scene
• Sketching particles on a Live object
• Connecting particles to Fields such as Gravity
• Emitting particles from particles
• Varying particle shader attributes
• Modeling and shading for the Particle Instancer
• Importing and instancing geometry onto particles
• Randomizing particle rotation with Creation and Runtime Expressions
• Adding Turbulence
• Rendering depth of field with mental ray
• Creating 3D Fluid containers
• Emitting dynamic fluid attributes from an object
• Animating a dynamic fluid
• Using a fluid for atmosphere
• Modulating light intensity with a noise expression

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Sporting News Today - 17 July 2011
English | PDF | 54 pages | 32.1MB
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Las Vegas - 17 July 2011
English | PDF | 116 pages | 50.1MB
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Newsweek - 25 July 2011
English | PDF | 78 pages | 29 Mb
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FHM It's a guy thing! FHM South Africa is a men’s lifestyle magazine about everything that’s sexy, funny, useful and relevant to South African guys. FHM covers a variety of lifestyle topics including gadgets, fashion, entertainment, sport, cars and adventure. FHM also features the world’s sexiest female celebrities and models, as well as Big Story long features about riveting guy stuff.

FHM - August 2011 (South Africa)
English | PDF | 132 pages | 47.2 Mb
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Popular Mechanics - August 2011 (South Africa)
English | PDF | 116 pages | 43.9 Mb
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South Africa's leading women's magazine with a 40-year record of delivering the best in fashion, beauty, food, decor and topical features. FAIRLADY brings contempory glamour to real women each month.

Fairlady - August 2011 (South Africa)
English | PDF | 228 pages | 75.7 Mb
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Description: File Synchronization is an utility that, as its name implies, has the ability to synchronize multiple pairs of folders or files. It has been designed to be easy to use and quick to do the job. It was based originally on the File Synchronization tool provided by Apple with the old Mac OS, but has a few improvements and features to help get the job done quickly and efficiently.

New features:

• Fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
• Super fast synchronization engine
• Option to decide which copy of a file replaces which copy and ability to ignore some items during the synchronization
• Automatically mounts remote volumes in the background when needed.
• Preview mode lets you "see" what will happen.
• Preview mode allows for managing files that need to be synchronized.
• Optional logging of all operations.
• Multithreaded for smooth operation even when copying hundreds of megabytes.
• No document to open or manage: all files and folders and their settings are
  automatically saved and accessible through the main window.
• Filters lets you ignore some files and/or folders that you don't want to synchronize.

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Indie Game Mag - July/August 2011
English | PDF | 20 pages | 10.4MB
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Outside - August 2011 (HQ PDF)
English | 122 pages | HQ PDF | 101.00 Mb
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