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Liquid in glass, air cavities

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:11 am
by bjorn.syse
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I've had a situation where I had a bottle of soap lying on the side, and wanted to capture the look of the caught air bubble in the top. One way would be to drill a tiny hole through the glass/plastic surface an "let the air in to the cavity, and another would be to just leave the shape of the cavity enclosed in the glass, much like the liquid mass, and then assign an AIR material to it.

What would such an Air material look like to behave just like the "default air in maxwell space"?

Hope I made myself clear, I can illustrate if needed!

Best regards,

- Björn

Re: Liquid in glass, air cavities

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:05 pm
by Brett Morgan
Hi Bjorn, is the contents of the container modelled? If so I would simply make a soft selection and move some verts away from the container wall, or boolean subtraction depending on what you're modelling with, would this work?

Brett

Re: Liquid in glass, air cavities

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:14 pm
by bjorn.syse
The contents are modeled, but the plastic shape does not have a wall thickness. It is solid, and then a block of liquid and a block of air is enclosed within. There is a gap of 0.01 mm between them.