3ds Max 2018.3 includes Fluids and more!

[Kelly_Michels]

#3dsmax 2018.3 includes the most highly requested community feature, fluid simulation, plus more! http://bit.ly/2wZCuYo 

https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-3ds-max-blog/introducing-3ds-max-2018-update-3/

[martin.coven]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Thanks, Martin. Will i have to resolve the entire liquid simulation when adjusting the foam? Or do i just have to resolve the foam component?

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Nope! Just turn off the Solve Liquid Component next to the progress bar and turn on the Solve Foam component. That will use the existing liquid simulation to generate the foam. Foam will take much less time as well.

martin

[martin.coven]

Hi Sdeters, 

You can use either the Physical Material or the Arnold Standard Surface shader for liquid when rendering with Arnold. I normally start with glass solid, then adjust the IOR to the correct amount. Water is 1.33, so I would start with that. I'm not sure if wide is any different in the amount of refraction. For the color, depending on you are rendering a red or white, or possibly blush, I would play with the color and depth of the transparency. Using ActiveShade makes tweaking your materials much easier.

Hope this helps!

Martin

[Anonymous]

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@sdeters wrote:

What type of material settings is being used to make the water look like water or wine?

Just being curious, using the standard Arnold Surface or physical material?

Thanks

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In this scene it was simply Physical Material+Arnold.

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

What's happening to nitrous?. I noticed Autodesk has been subliminally pushing us to activeshade lately...not to be disruptive, I just had to say it😁.

[sdeters]

Thanks Never thought of using physical material.  I do appreciate the help on this.  I have it flowing through my part finally.  but I do not know how I am going to visually show this fluid. 

Thanks again

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

Does max's bifrost have guided simulations like you have in Maya?

[Kelly_Michels]

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@Tochukwunwankwere20 wrote:
Does max's bifrost have guided simulations like you have in Maya?

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Yes, Guides are supported.  It's under the Liquid Attributes tab for adding the Guide Emitter and Guide Mesh.  You can then access the Guide System parameters under the Solver Parameters tab.

[Anonymous]

Just discovered the create helper section also.. made a sort of ok water fountain when messing around with the upward velocity and letting gravity do the rest.

I am struggling with the best way to set up a base scene though.. metre, cm, generic units etc.  Been trying to use Maya tutorials for bifrost but not really panning out well.

[martin.coven]

Hi Stevenls. Maya by default is set to come. They have Bifrost setup so 1 cm = 1 meter in Bifrost space. On the Max side we are converting the scene to the size it is in Max. If you want the simulations to more closely match the Maya tutorials, you could set the size to 1 unit = 1 meter in the simulation parameters and have the scene units set to 1 unit = 1 cm.

Hope that helps!
Martin

[martin.coven]

Maya by default is set to centimeters. Sorry my phone autocorrected my response.

Best,
Martin

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that.  I think I will stick to everything as 1 to 1cm.  So Max scale and the sim settings within Maxfluids and just model to cm.

I can just mess around with Master Voxel size to jam some more detail into the scene.  I think also I can increase the surface density to maybe 4 or 5 to bulk up the number of particles also.