melting geometry

[ttdww]

I'm looking for ideas to accomplish the following using Phoenix FD:

--a static model starts to melt in various places controlled by noise or some other means
--the melting areas deflect off the still solid parts of the model
--uv's are maintained so any texture maps stretch with the fluid
--ultimately the entire object melts as the noise (or other) expands completely

Could all this be done with Phoenix perhaps? Thanks in advance!

[Ivaylo Katev]

unfortunately the mapped viscosity is still not supported, so this should be a hard task.

[ttdww]

hi Ivaylo,

thanks for the response. i see. i'm also open to suggestions for cheats where features aren't available.

[Ivaylo Katev]

can you point a reference video that shows approximately what you pursuing ?

[flipbook]

https://vimeo.com/74110954 ?

[Ivaylo Katev]

without animated viscosity, the only way is animated geometry and hard manual work.

[ttdww]

thanks so much flipbook for posting the sample - yep, that's pretty much it. roger that Ivaylo regarding 'animated geometry, manual' method. What would be that method you are describing? I'm interested to hear about it. (If I have to utilize a little brute force - if it gets the shots done, that would be fine.)

[Ivaylo Katev]

manual method means to design the mesh for every frame

[ttdww]

i see. thanks very much. i may also try it with particles taking over the mesh

[ttdww]

in the PHXsource, is the discharge map functioning?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

It should be, are you trying to modulate the particle discharge with it?

[ttdww]

i'm trying to only emit over parts of the geo using a noise map. i'm shutting off the discharge on frame 2. when the map is active and pointed to the noise map i get no emission of fluid

[ttdww]

it it possible the discharge map for phx liquid source isn't working? also when using phxmapper helper i get a crash - even when excluded. max2012, build 25910

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Affirmative, we'll check it.

[Ivaylo Katev]

the discharge map is affecting the amount of the liquid, if you use drag particle (why you need them?) you have to map the particle birth value, not the discharge