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Create tracks in the snow

Create tracks in the snow - Maya Tutorial

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Create tracks in the snow

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- [Instructor] It's coming up on winter where I live, and let's go ahead and do a snow scene. We're going to actually create some snow, and then have the car drive through the snow and leave tracks. And to do this, we're going to be using soft bodies. So, I have this simple scene here, with a car and some snow-covered trees. Now the trees are really just for effect, so I want to go into my channel box here, and then under the layer editor, I'm just going to template the tree layer, so that way we can see them but they're not really in the way. Now I have this car, and I want to go ahead and draw a ground plane that will be a stand-in for snow. So I need to make sure I go into interactive creation mode, and then I'm going to go into a top viewport here, and just select a polygonal plane from the shelf, and then I'm just going to draw fairly long and skinny, I really just want enough geometry to cover where the car is driving. Now this is going to have a lot of detail, and we really…

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