restart sim from other / initial fillup to units / resim with adaptive?

[joconnell]

Heya Folks!

Two quick things.

Continuing a sim from a frame other than the start is likley going to come in at some point so probably no need to mention it

Second thing is I'd to add more height to a sim to take into account a later splash that appeared and so I added more z size cells. On restarting the sim, the initial fillup had moved the ocean level up higher than originally set since it's always percent of the original height - would it make sense to make this adjust itself to remain at the same z coordinate level in the max scene and thus have the initial fillup number adapt? (if a sim with z size of 100 and initial fillup at 50 had another 100 units of z height added on, you'd have to change the fillup to 25 to keep it in the same place)

Also of course resimulation won't work with adaptive grids!

Cheers,

John

[oophus]

Having a pointhelper or something in the scene to point at for the ocean level/initial fill up would indeed help.

[georgi.zhekov]

Hello,

For the start of the simulation - there is an option called backup interval in the Output rollout. By default it's set to 15 frames - this means that you can restore your sim from every 15th frame. If you set this to 1 you will be able to restore from every frame. The downside of this is that it makes the files bigger as they get more data.

[joconnell]

Duh, manuals and the restore button for that one then

I reckon I've to send you guys a load of drinks to apologise for all the dumb questions any time I start using a chaos product for the first time

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ah, but we do need to check the Resimulation with adaptive grid (of liquids, right?).

The initial fillup has also gathered a bunch of requests, the relative height is something that bugged me as well