making glass

[Anonymous]

Can a blob mesh that has a PF source be animated over time? I need to create effect of sand melting and truing into a liquid, going thorough a pipe. So the blob would start out as granular then turn to liquid. It’s to describe the process of making glass.
Thanks

[krueger_1]

I think instead of animating the blobmesh, I'd probably animate the material. Because trying to create enough particles for sand with just pflow would be painfully slow if at all. Map some images of sand onto your blobmesh and then animate that turning to glass.

For the tube part, I'd switch to geometry instead of using the particles. Just use the particles for the part before it enters the tube. Use the geometry for when it's in the tube and you can either use an animated Slice modifier or a Volume Select modifier with a DeleteMesh on top of it to reveal the geometry.

[Anonymous]

Thank you and Ill keep the thread thing to one