testing

i then went on to test out some explosions as i had never done any before on maya and was not particulary amazing with particles on maya(no pun intended) so i did a tutorial that emma found for me on exploding a sphere which worked easily enough. i them tried it on a cube and below was the resault which i was reasonably satisfied with.



i then moved onto trying it on the buildings in my scene, the particles of flames show up as only circle clouds until you maya software render them.



so in the video they show up as that but this photo below shows the current look of the explosion rendered at that stage. I later went into detail further with the particles making ramps to alllow for different colours and ramps for transparentcy but all this and the fact to many particles where coliding meant that the whole scene was slowed down and a major clean up was in order which M.L and george helped me out with but on the whole the explosion was a success concidering i have never made one before. i will put some more photos up later of the explosion and the laters which M.L rendered it in to show the smoke and flames.