Bodyforce Shape "boolean" problem

[JD3D_CGI]

I am trying to get my head around Adam Trower's wondeful bodyforce demo - and I'm trying to take his scene apart to understand it (I've not rally done much with Phoenix)

https://vimeo.com/135438246


however, as you can see from this example image (and related scene)

when I use a separate object as a bodyforce shape, that shape seems to cut out or boolean the other shapes.



why is my shape performing a seeming boolean operation, while the others aren't?


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...20-%20Copy.max

[flipbook]

Morning, I'm Adam Trowers This is my works user account! I'll take a look at your scene to see

[flipbook]

Your teapot is a solid object, need to untick the solid object in Phoenix object properties

[JD3D_CGI]

You are a star, thanks very much.

One other question - on the first emitter, the brush force option... does that make sure the particles are emitted within the object, not from the surface?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Yup, that' it Volume Brush or Volume Inject affect the volume, while Surface force is for the surface..

[JD3D_CGI]

You're the best - hopefully when I have a few of these other jobs out of the way I can pick up on this - will post my results!