Simulate Water Particles??

[SPENEN]

There are a couple of good fluidsimulator plugins on www.highend3d.com , what they basicly do is to make sure the particles dont come to close to each other, and make them attract itself to other particles.

,.-'`SPENEN`'-.,

[mtheory]

4.5's ocean shader tutorial does exactly that...but with a box...its in the docs

[Octagon]

Originally posted by SPENEN
There are a couple of good fluidsimulator plugins on www.highend3d.com , what they basicly do is to make sure the particles dont come to close to each other, and make them attract itself to other particles.

,.-'`SPENEN`'-.,

you can fake that specific effect by using a newton field and attach it to all particles in a particleShape (use selected as source under the fields menu).
I once tried that method to fill a glass with particles and it looked kind of okay. But i didn'nt spend enough time with it to see if it's _really_ usable (dont try putting 10000 newton fields in a maya particles ocean or expect semi-interactive performance :applause: )

cheers,
matthias

[SPENEN]

Cool, i have to try that =)

[FloydBishop]

If you are talking about trying to simulate the splash that would happen when the object hits the water, you could use a collision event to generate the particles. Add a gravity field and play with the settings of the particles to get the desired look and feel.

I've not had much luck getting a believable water splash with blobbies. When the particles spread out, the splash loses it's volume and big chunks of the splash disappear.

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