Water in a bucket

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Off the top of my head I'd say Realflow (http://www.realflow.com), but that's a plugin-thing, and not a super-cheap one at that.

However, you can fake the whole thing by making splashes using particles I'd say, and the water-surface using.. using.. what, morphing perhaps? That requires work from your end though to make it look right, but.. well that's how it is with everything I suppose :)

The splashes would be a couple of particlesystems, maybe some of them set to Metablobs thing, affected primarily by gravity obviously. The water could perhaps be controlled by a low-detailed control-cage (ie. Meshsmoothed afterwards), make some morphtargets, and do the moving-around-thing manually?

[BrandonD]

Take a look at the demo scenes that ship with MAX. Randy Kreitzman made a Flex demo back in R3 that showed a cup with sloshing liquid that was spot on. I'm pretty sure it's still shipping with the current version. In a nutshell, his method used geometry that filled a cup to look like water. Then he had flex on the liquid and constrained it's shape to the glass so when it wobbled, so did the liquid.

[Bmud]

You might be able to use Splash.. maybe a bunch of noise modifiers..

I've done a couple of experiments with boolean, you could see about making a boolean of your noise-animated water surface, and a dummy bucket to but out the excess.. maybe?

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