The Maya 8.5 unlimited getting started guide is a Maya book for beginner, here’s the table of content:
Overview
Introduction, About getting started with Maya unlimited, before you begin, installing maya unlimited, conventions used in the lessons, using the lesson files, restoring default user settings.
Lesson 1 Creating a basic hairstyle
Introduction, Lesson setup, creating hair on a surcafe, styling the hair, setting up hair collisions, rendering the hair, modifying hair attributes, setting up shadowing on hair, beyond the lesson.
Lesson 2 Creating a dynamic non-hair simulation
Setting up the curtaion scene, making the hair collide with another object, assigning a Paint effects brush to the hair, setting up constrain, rendering the curtain scene, beyond the lesson.
Lesson 3 Creating a dynamic 2D fluid effect
Creating a two dimensional fluid container, adding a fluid emitter to a container, changing the behavior of a fluid, combining colors in a fluid, colliding a fluid with an object, beyond the lesson.
Lesson 4 Creating a non-dynamic 3D fluid effect
Creating a 3D fluid container, adding fluid to a container, defining shader attributes for a fluid, texturing the contens of a fluid container, adding self shadowing to texture density, beyond the lesson.
Lesson 5 Creating a dynamic 3D effect
Creating a 3D container, Painting Fuel and Density into a container, Painting Temperature values into a container, Adding color to Density and Temperature, Beyond the lesson
Lesson 6 Creating an ocean effect
Creating an ocean plane and shader, Adding a preview plane to an ocean, Modifying ocean attributes, Floating objects, Beyond the lesson.
Lesson 7 Assigning a fur description
Duplicating objects across an axis of symmetry Renaming surfaces on a model Assigning objects to a reference layer Assigning a fur description preset to a model Reversing surface normals. Modifying the fur direction, Painting fur attributes, Modifying the color of a fur description, Creating a new fur description, Beyond the lesson.
Lesson 8 Rendering fur
Introduction, Lesson setup, Creating lights in a scene, Adding fur shadowing attributes to lights, Rendering the scene,Beyond the lesson.
Lesson 9 Creating nCloth collisions
Introduction, Lesson setup, Creating an nCloth object, Making an nCloth collide with its environment, Adjusting the accuracy of nCloth collisions, Beyond the lesson
Lesson 10 Creating nCloth constraints
Introduction, Lesson setup, Constraining an nCloth to a passive object, Changing which nCloth points are constrained, Making nCloth flap in dynamic wind, Beyond the lesson.

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