Hi. In this tutorial I gonna show Ya sum stuff about Maya PaintFX. There are various possibilities to use PaintFX. You can paint: attributes, expressions, scripts. You can also make your own script or expression and paint it on. In this tutorial I’ll focus on making grass, adding sum dynamics and animating it. So let’s get started.

Open Maya and create NewScene. I use the HotBox coz this is the best solution for me to navigating through Maya interface. You can use standard menu sets of course if you more like it :)

Tips: To open up -show- the HotBox press and hold down the Space button on your Next we need to create sum geometry to paint on it, coz PaintFX will be created on curves on surface. Create NurbsPlane. Scale it a little bit so ya get sumthin’ like that. There are few diffrent ways to create PaintFX. Ya can paint direct on surface using Brush tool, then brush tool will create curve on surface or you can create curve on surface and attach brush to curve. In this tut I choose second way. To make surface live, select it and click big red magnet on status line.

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