[oly]

I want to do an animation of water pouring into a fish boul which fills up then to have a fish swimming around i have created a fish and a fish bowl how can i achieve the water type effect i want

[NeoSunaru]

I think you can make the boul a Collision Object and use Particles to fill it. But i havn't tryed this method for myself yet.

[Johnny9ball]

http://www.nextlimit.com/

RealFlow would work and its only $1195.00

[NeoSunaru]

i think he wouldn't spend that much money for a just-for-fun animation
I think RealFlow runs in DEMO mode if you downlaod it. But i don't know if you can save or import/export in DEMO.

[oly]

Nope would not pay that i was thinking collisions and particle emmitters no idea how to do collision though and cold not get particle to look good as water

[NeoSunaru]

well RealFlow uses Particles and your Boul as collision object

Open the ObjectProperties Window for your Boul and add a FX_Colission to it and make the type 'object'.
Make an Particle Emitter and use Hypervoxels (Object Type: Volume)

Maybe Phil can make a little tutorial on howto fill a glass with water using particles.

[rincewind]

I think Realflow uses particles for the simulation, then exports a polygon object sequence for the water back to lightwave. You just surface this object to look like water.

There's a discussion on cgtalk about different ways of creating water here

[F1Racer]

Theres a demo of how to do pouring water out of a glass in "Inside Lightwave 7" on page 963.

But its using Hypervoxels and the water does look a little globular but maybe the principal is the same.

[NeoSunaru]

That's what i got with particles:
http://www.teammatrix.de/NeoSunaru/water_particles.avi (XviD Codec required)

[Mark]

Neo,

Can't read the file? DivX reports that the file contains no known video data. (Using DivX 5.0.3)

[DybiosH]

Hi Mark

I think this will clear why Divx won't play it

Cheers

[NeoSunaru]

quote myself: (XviD Codec required)
and not DivX

get AngelPotion Codec Pack and you won't have any problems viewing videos.

[Mark]

Ahh, now I see. Misread the original post. Although when I checked out the AngelPotion codec at Digital Digest (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/apcodec.html) I see that they've removed the codec from their download area due to compatibility problems.

However, I did manage to find a copy at another site, but after installing it, all I see is a black video frame...

[NeoSunaru]

You may try Nimo Codec Pack 5 Build 7. However i replaced the video with a DivX5 video.

[Mark]

Ah-ha. Success. Cheers Neo.

The water looks good, but there's a tendency for it to look a little like molten glass as it's running. I'd be tempted to alter the thickness of the stream and maybe add a twist or some other turbulence to the particles to help break up the refraction pattern. (If this is possible - I've not played too much with HVs)..