Can't fill a bowl

[jstrob]

I set up a scene to fill a bowl like explained in the help file. I also check the wine sample scene. But my bowl is not filling up.

here is my scene:
http://www.phylacterecola.com/strob/...illingBowl.max

It seems that when the object i want to fill is not included in the sim, it is not filling. But If I include it it will collide...

[jstrob]

Ok I found it!

In the PhoenixFD properties of the object I unchecked solid! I also put zero for the velocity multiple.

[jstrob]

Now i would like to know how can we acieve a settled liquid in a bowl.

[Ivaylo Katev]

yes, the solid/non solid concept was changed after introducing the body attraction forces, the old concept was good for sources (not intuitive though) but was inapplicable for the attraction.
so, what is the problem with the liquid? is it shaking or something else? my blind suggestion is to increase the spf up to 10

[jstrob]

I would like to do a crown like splash. So I followed your instruction on another thread witth 3spf and symmetric with quality of 50. I also added some surface tension, but the liquid was atgitated like if there was an 7.0 erthquake with millions of droplets constantly up in the air. So i removed the surface tension and now it is better but I have no splash at all with 10 M cells. I use a spherical drop that just fall with gravity. I increase its velocity mult to 6 but still it just enter the water with just making a hole in the liquid. If I put iso surf level at 0.9 I am getting a different waer level and it looks better.

to get a crown like splash should the drop fall right in the middle of the simulator?

[Ivaylo Katev]

well, can't say what is the problem, but i just made a test crown scene and it seems to work, see it and modify it according your changes

[jstrob]

Great thank you so much!

[jstrob]

your scene looks great. but do you have any idea why I can't seem to ba able to generate a mesh. i see the temperature, but in mesh or implicit surface mode I don't see anything...

[jstrob]

Ok I found it. That was because your material was 100% transparent and I had transparency enabled in the viewport!