Tool Kit 2: Fog & Atmosphere

In this tutorial we went through the 2 different was of creating fog in Maya. the first being aiFog and the second being aiAtmospherevolume. These create different effects and work differently. The first i used was aiFog a seemingly simpler system then the second after finishing the tutorial. Having few controls mainly, distance, height and colour these have limited uses however can still be used to create good effects.

The second way aiAtmospherevolume seems like a more sophisticated way of controlling the visual look of fog in your scene, having control of how strong the fog is, have much it darkens the scene as well as how lights in your scene appear through the fog. These give you huge control of the scene before the need to composite in a different piece of software.

Height.

Distance.

Colour.

Colour + background colour.

aiatmosphere On.

Density.

Attenuation.

Anisotropy.

Colour Light.

Final Render.

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