Struggling to understand Autodesk Bifrost? Start with this Absolute Beginners Guide.

If you have tried to look and learn Bifrost, the visual programming environment in Autodesk Maya and still can't understand it or you find it overwhelming, this video is for you.
This will be first in a series of video tutorials aimed at the non programmer, explaining what Bifrost is and how you can use it.

This first video explains the basics about Bifrost - what it is; where it came from; how to start with it; understanding the graph editor; loading examples scenes.
After this video, we will move on to how to build your first graph and effect in Bifrost.

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CHAPTERS

00:00​ Introduction
00:57 What is Bifrost and how it came to be
05:05 The Bifrost plugin
07:27 Loading the plugin
07:57 How to access Bifrost in Maya
10:08 How to load Bifrost Fluid Examples
11:59 How to load the Bifrost Browser and Graph Editor
18:48 Bifrost Graphs vs Bifrost Fluids
21:27 Understanding the Bifrost Graph Editor
26:28 Understanding a Bifrost Graph
32:25 Outro and what's next

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🚨AUTODESK RESOURCES🚨

Official Maya 2022 documentation -
https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL...

Bifrost for Maya release notes
https://help.autodesk.com/view/BIFROS...

Bifrost Bootcamp on Autodesk AREA
https://makeanything.autodesk.com/bif...

Bifrost for Maya downloads -
https://area.autodesk.com/bifrost/dow...

3ds Max Bifrost Videos from Public roadmap -
https://makeanything.autodesk.com/3ds...

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