Hi Can I create a sea whirlpool but also have an endless ocean? Thanks
Haven’t tried it, but as a guess, I would say that your grid needs more depth below the surface so the forces can act on liquid lower down.
Maybe you could use 2 simulation boxes like in the wine pouring sample scene. The top one as you have it with closed boundries and one smaller at the bottom to serve as a funnel that has an open Z top and bottom to allow the water in and give it somewhere to go.
thanks a lot! I’ll try both methods
Still cannot get it right. Can anyone at Chaos make a tutorial? I need this effect https://youtu.be/O7oN8A3Imkw?t=49s Thank you
Already working on it 
I hope it will be out soon.
Just for inspiration (… hopfully not discouraging):
ILM - Creating a Maelstrom for Pirates 3
wow thanks My project pales in comparison. I am hoping to get a fraction of that. Maybe one day Phoenix FD can have GPU/CPU distributed simulation with Adaptive Load of particles only where needed
And a video
looks great!
By they you mentioned a geometry driven force without vortex force. Do you have like a large spinning mesh shaped as vortex? And do you know how soon you might have a tutorial by any chance.? We just have a week deadline and no clue how to do it. Thanks!!!
You can check how the scene is setup in the attached file
20180620-Maelstrom_tutorial.zip (448 KB)
Cool… please tell me you didn’t use the 456 billion voxel resolution to sim 
Here is the latest scene file. It is not fully test, but it should fix the boundary issue with latest nightly (3.11.01 Nightly, Build ID: 2018070328372) . And a little instructions from Svetlin, I have done all those, just to let you know what steps they are. We are still working on it, fixing some issues.
- disable cutter
- remove the cylinder from the scene interaction exlude list (in general, we better not use that and use just non-solids, unless the exclude list is really necessary)
- change render mode to ocean mesh
- enable initial fillup + fillup for Ocean and set it to 99
- enable confine geometry and pick the cylinder there
- make the cylinder non-solid
- (the new addition to the nightly) - enable clear inside on the cylinder - the change I made was that if a geometry is used as confine geometry and has Clear Inside, then if you use fillup for ocean, the confine geometry will not be filled up with liquid initially
- make the cylinder a little wider, so the emitters could emit
the changes will be in tomorrow’s nightly
20180704-inifinite-ocean-fix-03.zip (532 KB)
Maybe you should start thinking outside the sim box *ba dum, tish*… just a thought… why not have a piece of non-renderable geo that follows the sim box edges … volume select the ocean mesh with a soft selection applied and then an FFD or something and squash it down so it all generally flattens out.
Worth a try I suppose.. it may also be a load of rubbish 
Thanks But not sure how to do this. those borders are too sharp
Hello,
Here I attached another scene file which use vortex force to create a maelstrom. Be sure to use latest nightly since there were some issues with standard 3dsmax forces (You might need to set your vortex strength a hundred or thousand times when using an older version of Phoenix, in order to see the effect). May I know what camera movement for your project? If it’s not one single continuous shot, you can do it this way:
1. For long, wide range shot. Since you need the infinite ocean, use Vortex force set up
2. For close-up. Use the Funnel setup for more realistic and details. You can hide the horizon by using fog or compositing.
Those are methods I could think, we will continue to fix the boundary problem from the Funnel setup.
Hammer
20180606-Maelstrom-vortex.zip (143 KB)
I am glad it has resolved. Looking forward to see your final rendering