Questions tagged [fluid-simulation]
Questions about the Fluid simulation systems in blender. Blender has two systems for simulating liquids, a SPH (Smoothed Particle Dynamics) system integrated with the particle system, and a Lattice Boltzmann method which can be used create a variety of simulations.
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Fluid simulation : domain appears opaque when render
I have a simple fluid animation and it works well as far as I don't try to render it. In render mode, or if I try to render the animation, the domain becomes opaque. In other modes, the scene is ...
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Attempts to change water flow result in no flow at all
I am trying to add a small flow of water into my pool. After following dozens of tutorials I eventually got some water coming out, but much too 'fat'.
I thought I just had to make a few changes and I ...
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Fluid suddenly moves one direction + collision problem
I'm using Blender's Mantaflow fluid simulation.
The fluid suddenly seems to move in one direction.
I din't give any velocity to the fluid source
My only guess is that the collider for the object ...
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is there any way I can recreate this slushy animation in blender? [closed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=B3J13n_0fkg Can I recreate this animation in blender?
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Why is the water not colliding with an obstacle?
The water goes through the obstacle, instead of bouncing or stopping right there. Would you know how to fix this? I tried to change the "fractional" part but there is no difference.
Here is ...
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How to bake a fluid animation with Blender 4? [duplicate]
how do you bake a fluid animation? I have the "domain" object, the fluid and the effector, I changed the number of frames, but with the last version of blender, there is no "bake" ...
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Massive Water Effect
Is it possible to create an effect similar to the following link in Blender?
Water splash simulation using realflow
The default fluid simulator works well for small scale effects but I am struggling ...
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Fluid Sim looks rough even with a high resolution division
I am simulation a water inside of a glass. the issue is the sides of the fluid where it touches the glass object (the collision object) the fluid looks rought ;
I tried applying subdivision on both ...
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Fluid Simulation Low Quality When Dropping on Object
The gold fluid when drops on the object creates meshes (or weird bumps) at point of contact. Even when I bump up the resolution to 700 the edges of the fluid are still not completely smooth. Smoothing ...
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Fluid simulation Question about the min/max of the velocity
With the fluid sism, I want to bake a simulation where i swap them out with particles. The simulation however does not have a lot of intense and high velocity movement. This causes my particle shader, ...
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Simulate rigid body hitting thick liquid. (How to slow an individual rigid body?)
I’m trying to drop rigid bodies into a vat of slime. The rigid body needs to stop hard the moment it hits the surface of the slime, then slowly sink in.
I’ve tried using translation damping at the ...
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Is it possible to set a Sphere as a Fluid Simulation Domain?
This what happens when I try it...
I'm using Blender v3.6.2
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Fluid simulation Artifacts
I have created a waterfall scene of height 95feet (considering real life measurements) using flip fluids addon.
The material given to the fluid surface is complete transparent.
I have baked the ...
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Flip Fluid add on : Fluid sim freeze while rendering
I baked my fluid simulation, and rendered. But every 15~20 frames the sim froze.
So I closed the Blender file, reload it again and render from the keyframe which was frozen. I think it's the directory(...
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Glass BSDF shader rendering problem
I'm trying to follow a tutorial on fluid simulation. Everything works fine until the rendering. As shown, the viewport render looks well but when trying to render image (F12) the torus roughness ...
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Why Particles Look Noise in Fluid Simulation
Why do particles move like glitter every frame?
I hope it doesn't sparkle like noise, but it's still rolling. It's not a material problem, it's a fluid area problem.
Resizing a domain or resizing a ...
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How to remove mesh from fluid
I want it to be seen completely as a particle, but there's even a white mesh.
How to get rid of that white wave from the setup?
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How do I get a planar fluid surface in Flip Fluids?
I saw a video of someone making a U-boat surfacing with Flip Fluids, and I noticed the fluid surface is planar and it doesn’t just fall down onto the domains bottom side, and it has proper splashes. ...
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Water simulation - How to make water spill (difference between 2.8 version and 3.6 new update)
How can I recreate this fluid simulation from 2.8 version to current 3.6 version? I do not see any 'obstacles' in fluid simulation.
I was following this tutorial "making water spill from backet ...
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How to rectify "Use flow" keyframe when its not working?
I wanted to stop the fluid flow after certain key-frame but even though i inserted a key frame in "Use flow" check box by checking and unchecking it , the flow keeps on producing .Help me to ...
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Using Flip Fluids for a shore on a beach. Doesn't behave like ocean water
I have assigned the appropriate materials and enabled Whitewater simulation. The water still looks and behaves like oil.
I know I am doing something wrong. Can someone please explain?
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Can a mesh be morphed into a fluid simulation?
I'm trying to create a melting animation using fluid simulation. However, I need the simulation to have the same topology as the original mesh. I tried using the method in this answer, but my object's ...
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My Blender Scene Is Dark And I Don't Know Why
My scene is dark no matter what I do. I used lights with a lot of watts but I saw no changes. I used Cycles and put the scene to the rendering viewport, but the scene remained dark.
I'm not well ...
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How can I make a water wake effect?
I wish to create the illusion of an object that is stationary to be moving along a surface.
I have a sphere and a plane, and the desired outcome would be for a water "wake" effect to be ...
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Why isn’t my water simulation transparent? [duplicate]
I tried to do a product commercial, where the product falls into water and followed a tutorial. I think I did every step right. I even used the same HDRI.
So does someone have an idea why my water ...
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Pc blacked out - how to resume vdb fluid Sim?
I was baking a heavy fluid Sim when some one turned of the fuse and of course my pc crashed without electricity. So after the fuse was back in, I checked and blender had produced already a lot of the ...
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Blender Fluid Flow object and fluid do not align
I am trying to do a render with an inflow on top of some simple terrain however whenever I try and bake the data the fluid does not align with the inflow object. The first image below has the inflow ...
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how to change fluid to object
new to the forum, my name is carl.
I would like to create an animation of a fluid that at the end of the race turns into a fruit. Could you please tell me what technique to use to achieve this result.
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Fluid Simulation as .fbx [duplicate]
How to covert Fluid Simulation into shape keys so export it as and .fbx file?
I know that exporting it as .alembic works fine but Unity doesn't support .alembic files for Android Build Projects.
Also ...
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ocean physics and simulation
do you have some recommendations on how to create a shot in which a monster breaches through the ocean's surface? Kind of like in the Gozilla Movies.
I looked at the ocean modifier but what I need is ...
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Creating animation of a swimming pool with a pipe supplying water
I've only been using Blender for a few months, and the fluid simulation for only a few days.
I've made a bit of progress in creating a video of a swimming pool with a pipe supplying water. This is the ...
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Why are my fluid simulation reflections so low res?
I have been getting my feet wet on fluid sims this week, even bought the Flip Fluids addon, but no matter what I do, how much resolution I give the fluid, how many subdivisions I give the obstacle, my ...
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Would these laptops be suitable for Blender 3.4? [duplicate]
So I am buying a new laptop for Blender and I want to make sure the specs are good enough and if anyone else has had experience with these specific laptops. In terms of what I need it for I am a bit ...
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Smoke simulation not working at all
I followed a tutorial online about smoke simulations, and I am trying to get the smoke to flow down in the domain... Every time I bake, the smoke appears but only around the box and I can't figure out ...
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my smoke simulation is barely visible in cycles
I am trying to do some smoke simulation so I tried it my self everything is good for now , but when I tried to bake it the smoke is barely visible As you can see in the pictures my settings , I want ...
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How can i remove the gap between this plane and my liquid mesh?
I have attached an image of my scene. On the plane, liquid effector is selected. I check "is planar" sampling substeps 50. Thickness is 0.00. DOMAIN SETTINGS: resolution division: 128. ...
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Liquid Simulation: Volume decreasing throughout simulation
I'm new to blender and I'm taking a crack at fluid simulation for a project. I'm trying to simulate a translucent whiskey bottle being lifted up and then pouring the liquid into a glass (the liquid ...
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How to create splash or spilling fluid animation from a glass of water
How can I create splash or spilling fluid animation from a glass of water? What is the best way to do it on fluid simulation.?
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Blender particle simulation as flow object source of fluid simulation simulation too violent or big in scale
Ive got a fire simulation issue, the original fluid simulation I got looking fairly good and moving good (1):
But the fire was just moving up, I wanted it clumping into a ball and obviously force ...
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How to achieve this water splash animation for any solid object ( suzanne for ex)?
I am really trying to understand mantaflow and water simulation in blender and I want to make a fluid animation that throws water on an object in blender (kind of like the 3D splash effect you might ...
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Scatter objects on a fluid mesh
I'm trying to simulate the effect in this video: https://www.instagram.com/p/CtHEIhRvA36/
I started creating a fluid simulation and then I wanted to scatter some grass on the domain mesh;
The problem ...
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How to slow down and optimize fluid animation for a collision animation
I have a scene where a fluid flow object(a plane) is emitting fluids which is then affecting the main object. I am trying to animate the entire scene, but the animation is so fast I can hardly catch ...
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Prevent flip fluids simulation from generating random flying particles
I feel a little bit stuck on my personal project and thought that it might be helpful to ask for help here.
The thing is, I desire to make flip fluids sim flowing out of skulls eyes straight down(...
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Fluid simulation on FBX file to three.js but animations are not showing! (How to make fluid simulation running on three.js)
I'm new to Blender, and I'm struggling for days on this fluid simulation.
I have made a fluid simulation that goes well in blender, but it doesn't animated when I try to load the animation through FBX ...
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Fluid gas simulation only showing in Object view, not Rendered view or in final renders [Cycles]
I have a scene with a straightforward fluid setup that seemingly works fine until rendering. After baking the sim I can see that the sim looks normal in Wireframe and Object view:
However it doesn't ...
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Can I convert liquid foam or bubbles to point cloud and use it inside geometry nodes?
Can I convert liquid foam or bubbles to point cloud and use it inside geometry nodes ?
I'm trying to spread objects on liquid object , and I would like these scattered objects look like they are stick ...
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Mantaflow fluid simulation - Why aren't spray and foam controlled by different elements?
I'm not sure there is an answer to this, but it is very frustrating.
In Mantaflow, I have tried adjusting practically every single parameter in the Spray - Foam - Bubbles section in an attempt to get ...
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How can I make this glass more realistic?
I am trying to do a liquid simulation where the fluid is pouring into the glass but I'm not able to make the glass look realistic... Below are some examples:
Edit: Here is the .blend file
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Wind Tunnel Issues
Hello dear Blender users,
I'm pretty new to Blender and just wanna ask you for your support.
I tried to create a virtual Wind Tunnel, but I got some issues:
I don't have a solid stream of particles, ...
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Smoke Particles and Fluid
Taylor Swifts music video has these golden particle/fluid/smoke simulation. It is like a glowing pipe which has particles & smoke or fluid or both coming out randomly. I understand fluid ...
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