complicated problem to solve

[themaxxer]

I have to make an animation to visualize a mixture of different materials. for example different heavy sands... there is a floor with little holes. air is coming out with high pressure mixing the sand, it looks like boiling water.
is something liek this possible with phoenix and other particles systems... any ideas how to make it? it's so a heavy task, but I would like to find a solution... maybe other plugins...
I think the heviest task is the sand, not the water sim...

any help is appreciated and welcome.

thanks

best regards
themaxxer

[Ivaylo Katev]

really a hard task. can you find a real video showing this process?

[Morbid Angel]

I've seen demo of sand/soil from xsi's ice particles which looked pretty awesome. Besides that, only piece of software I think that could do it would be houdini, but its a can of worms you do not want to open. You need a houdini pro to tackle it. Houdini is such a piece of work you can't just figure out on your own how stuff works.