This is a 4 part tutorial on how to, and what is required to create an image with transparencies. How to import those images into Mayas shader nodes, and how to make use of the transparencies. Also there is some helpful info on UV's and moving, scaling and rotating multiple objects, uniformly.
In this tutorial first we will make lava using Maya particles and than we will study the process of creating lava inside of Realflow. We will also create Lava shader.