For the nParticle smoke simulation, you create a nParticle system that is composed of an nParticle object, an emitter object, and a nucleus node. You can also use external Dynamic forces with nParticles to create realistic smoke, dust, or jet stream effects.
See the Dynamics tutorials in the Getting Started with Maya for particle tutorials that use fields. Although some nParticle attributes are different than Maya classic particle, you can still obtain similar results using nParticles to complete the particles, emitters, and fields section of the Dynamics tutorials.
In this tutorial you use only Nucleus forces and nParticle attribute settings to create a smoke simulation.
