Is it possible to make soil?

[Andy Mac]

As the title suggests I'm wondering if there is a method for making pheonix fd behave like soil. I'm doing an animation which requires the ground to be dug up, in my head I'm thinking somehow that a liquid simulation can be altered to do this...any suggestions? Thanks.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

Phoenix would not be the best choice for this setup. You can make the liquid simulation behaving less like liquid in two ways - you can make it look like sand, but particles will not stack on top of one another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R13I...SvetlinNikolov

Also, using high viscosity, you can make liquid behaving more like a solid, but separate chunks will tend to stick to one another, so this won't be good for soil either: https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/PHX4MAX/Lava+Flow

Maybe tyFlow would work for you?

Cheers!

[Andy Mac]

Thank you Svetlin.
Yes i'll give tyflow a go then. Thank you for the response and the additonal info.
Andy

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Good luck, hope it turns out well!