[jfrancis]

This image from Next Limit is the only example on the internet that I can find of Maya fluids being rendered in Maxwell. Is this still impossible to do despite documentation to the contrary, or am I missing something?

I very much want to render fluids without going through some particle-based indirection.

[gotoxy av-media]

hmm, we also want to know how to use fluids with maxwell...

[jfrancis]

hmm, we also want to know how to use fluids with maxwell...

Here is the documentation on it, but I can't figure out how to make it work.

http://support.nextlimit.com/display/mx ... olumetrics

[gotoxy av-media]

i know, but can`t use it due a lack of information...

correct me if i am wrong NL, but this feature doesn`t work as promised

best regards
munch

[Mihnea Balta]

There is a bug which makes the exported fluid volumes larger than they should be if the Base Resolution attribute is changed from the default of 10. We'll fix this problem in the next build, but I think that the reason you're not seeing anything in the renders is that the density is too low. With a default Maya fluid volume, you have to up the Density/Voxel/Sec attribute to about 1000 in order to see the fluid in the render. We will add a density multiplier attribute so you can control the "visual density" without affecting the density value in the Maya simulation.

[jfrancis]

Thank you

[gotoxy av-media]

thank you for this info!

waiting for the next build...

best regards
munch

[3dtrialpractice]

have you tried this with V3.1 yet?!

[jfrancis]

have you tried this with V3.1 yet?!

Good question.



preliminary testing -- seems to work

[3dtrialpractice]

yay!

[jfrancis]

I have to get into it more but it seemed like default density didn't show up, and I had to crank it way up at emission time to see it. (Also have to assign a material)