Making a powder-like look for the simulation

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Hello Everyone,

I know that simulating powder isn’t really the scope of Phoenix FD, however what I’m trying to simulate is a very fine powder stream, which (from the physics point of view) should act almost identical to a stream of liquid - my main problem is with the overall looks of the final sim. I turned down the surface tension, etc., but I still can’t get anywhere near the effect I’m looking for.

Are there any useful tricks that would let me make the simulation appear more “powdery”?
Maybe something I could do something about the material of the liquid to make it look more like a powder?

I’m using PFD for 3dsmax with Vray.

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Hello,

Can you show us some reference of what you’re trying to achieve and the result you’re getting?

Cheers,

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Hey,

You can check our lava tutorial here - Chaos Docs

Hope this helps.