Reset-ing Maya Particles' Initial State - Method 1
One of my colleagues ran into a problem with the Maya particles' initial state. He was unable to remove/delete/reset the initial state after setting it, and there seem to be no command to do that. I remember watching a Gnomon particle dynamics video and hearing it mentioned. The trainer (was Alex Alvarez I think) said to download a script from highend3d.com (that was before it became CreativeCrash.com ). I found some suggestions for fixing this problem at this creativecrash.com forum: http://www.creativecrash.com/forums/dynamics-amp-effects/topics/initial-state One of the more straightforward suggestions from the forum was to: - set the emitter rate to zero, - set a very short constant lifespan (for the existing particles at the initial state) -rewind and play till the initial state particles die - then set a new initial state when there are no more particles alive in the scene - This will have gotten rid of the initial state, and we can now go and apply o