Shattering cube, with a twist :D

[Morbid Angel]

Im continuing my research into various areas of cg in presuit of developing a powerful rnd. The goal of this test is to simulate fluid inside of the shattering cube and its after effect.


Divx or Xvid
http://doom.funtik.com/temp/rnd_02.avi

Quicktime
http://doom.funtik.com/temp/rnd_02.mov

[chris-x//]

looks really nice, nothing is wrong for me in the simulation. what did u use in the envirronement for reflections, plumb looks neat. Not the purpose of your test but i like that rendering style.

i wish i had time to make such tests at work, where i only use powerpoint and word atm

did u use glu and reactor ?

[Morbid Angel]

chris, I used realflow for the entire simulation of cube dynamics and fluids.
Reflections were done with soft lights.

[DaForce]

Thats pretty neat
How long did it take to calc?

Good old realflow always has the problem of disolving water.. hehe hard to overcome.

[Tom B]

Looks really good! Is the ground plane hydrophobic or something? The water seems inclined to form dropules rather than merge. Actually it resembles mercury, which lacks surface affinity (has the opposite meniscus to water). Anyway nice job on the simulation, it is v cool!

[RErender]

Looks pretty cool.

The box shatters nicely.

You might want to play with the speed flattening and stretching for the rf mesh, I've found it helps a bit with the look of the fluid on a surface

[flipside]

Looks really good! Is the ground plane hydrophobic or something? The water seems inclined to form dropules rather than merge. Actually it resembles mercury, which lacks surface affinity (has the opposite meniscus to water). Anyway nice job on the simulation, it is v cool!

That's because of the fluid simulation I think, that always creates such drop shapes. After the simulation I usually raise the groundplane a bit to intersect with the water. That's not always possible with different shaped surfaces of course.

[peterC]

Very nice.
I agree on the mercury feel for the water, the groundplane shouldt have much more friction, the feel shouldt be more "roll" then "slide".
But in an active inviroment this wouldt look extremelly convincing.
Please keep us updatet on your progress always keen to see more.
Pet

[Morbid Angel]

daforce, it took quite some time because of the resolution of particles. Rerender I know what you mean...but this was more of an interaction test.

The water in general in rf is based on incorrect asumption; that is particle is assumed to be one bubble drop with no respect to surrounding world. So when fluid is placed on the ground it does not conform the mesh the way one would expect in real world.

[joconnell]

Nice work Morbid!

Personally I always find my life is a lot more pleasant when I'm not using realflow