Flowing water into bath

[squeakybadger]

Hi guys,

Does anyone have a clue on how to use particle flow or something native in max to create water from a tap/faucet into a semi filled bath (which will create ripples and all that fun stuff)?

I've searched for hours and nothing comes close.

Cheers to anyone that can shed some light on this

[RErender]

Animated displacement maps can work wonders

[Joost Ink]

I had to do something similar and I used superspray with metaparticles and some spacewarps bound to it.
worked pretty good.
for the water i used the ripple modifier.

[squeakybadger]

cheers guys, i'll give it a whirl

[RErender]

If your interested in the displacement route...

Here's an example of flowing water with displacement http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ighlight=water In this one Da_elf animated some noise maps, if you have a video cam handy you can try filming a real tub surface as it fills up a few carefully placed lights should give you enough contrast and speculars to create a high contrast black and white version of the footage to use as a map see my post here http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ighlight=waves for an idea of what I'm talking about.

just don't drop your lights in the tub!

[marco]

RealFlow ?

[tom schuelke]

glue 3d maybe ? is intergrated to max, but not as good as realflow for sure