What happens when I scale a simulator?

[Alexx31]

When I have a simulation, just need it to be bigger in the scene:
I saw I can scale the simulator

And (I'm guessing here) when I resimulate, it will be the same result.
Is that right?
Can I scale simulators like other objects in the scene (knowing, that this will of course not increase the resolution because I'm scaling the voxels)

Thanks

[JuhaHo]

I don't know if this is correct way, but in my current project I have four instances of same simulation with each scaled differently. As always, I run the simulation by using a dummy geometry on separate scene. That way each render render simulators are updated correctly. Then I just activate the entry in my backburner queue to see the update in rendered animation as well.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Nope, don't scale Simulators if you intend to run their simulation. You can scale them if you will only render them, but simulation will likely break if a Simulator is not at 100% scale. You can rotate Simulators though

Cheers!

[luckett_jason@hotmail.com]

Svetlin,

Further to this message I have just started using Phoenix and have used some of your fountain and waterfall simulation example scenes, these are done in units CM, how do I bring these into my scene which is set to units M ?

Any ideas or do I have to run them again under Meters? As far as I see if you use Max's converting units from CM to M it doesn't work.

Many thanks,

Jason

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

So if your scene is in meters, but still the world scale is correct, then the fountain simulator from here (https://docs.chaos.com/display/PHX4MAX/Example+Scenes) which is 90 cm tall should become 0.9m tall and keep working correctly, if you do the following:
- Merge the fountain scene into your scene.
- In the Grid rollout, decrease 100 times the X, Y, and Z sizes in voxels - they should read 139, 155 and 90.
- Further down in the grid rollout, you should do the same with the adaptive limits - they should read 55, 55 for X, 50, 62 for Y and 0, 716 for Z.

If you have already simulated the original scene and it had created the Particles [...] of [PhoenixFDLiquid] nodes, then delete them from the merged scene or don't merge them at all in the first place, and then pick the Simulator's Liquid particle system from the Particle Shader.

I think this should be all Cheers!