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Part I ✦ Getting Started with Maya 4.5
Table 1-7 lists changes made to Dynamics features.
Table 1-7
Dynamics Changes
Feature Improvement Description
Hinge Constraint Axis Rotation Hinge constraint type now has axis rotation. The
old hinge constraint type was renamed to
Directional Hinge.
Particle shadow casting Particle shadow casting for point, multipoint, and
sphere particle types.
Table 1-8 lists changes made to Rendering features.
Table 1-8
Rendering Changes
Feature Improvement Description
Volume Light Volume light illuminates based on a Volume
Manipulator. This is awesome for localizing light
without messing around with falloff.
Height Field utility node Height field visualization utility node.
Note: This is great for visualizing displacements in
real time.
Use No Lights Use No Lights hardware shading menu item.
Jitter Final Color Render Global Jitter Final Color reduces banding by adding noise
to your rendered image.
Pause IPR Tuning You can now pause and resume IPR tuning.
Surface Materials Ramp shader and Ocean shader (Unlimited
feature), shown in Figure 1-8.
Volumetric Materials Fluid shape (Unlimited feature).
2D Textures Ocean (Unlimited feature).
3D Textures Fluid Texture 2D (Unlimited feature) and Fluid
Texture 3D (Unlimited feature).
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