Preparing for the lessons

This tutorial assumes that you:

• Understand the basic concepts of polygon modeling, animation, fluids, and nParticles.
• Copied the nParticles Advanced Techniques folder from the following location: http://www.autodesk.com/maya-advancedtechniques. Then, set the nParticlesAdvancedTutorials directory as your Maya project.
• Selected the FX menu set. Unless otherwise noted, the instructions in this chapter assume you’ve already selected the FX menu set.

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