Chapter 8. Hair and Fur Effects

Maya Unlimited is an extended professional version of Maya that adds several powerful modules to the standard Complete package. These include Cloth, Live, Fluid Effects, Fur, and Hair. This book has focused mostly on what you can achieve with the standard Maya Complete package because most individual artists as well as smaller companies can only afford Maya Complete. However, I wanted to have one chapter devoted to effects you can achieve with a couple of the Maya Unlimited modules. There are several books dedicated to Maya Unlimited effects, including Learning Maya 7: Maya Unlimited Features (Sybex, 2006), which is part of the Autodesk Learning Tools series. If you're fortunate enough to have access to a copy of ...

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