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Setting a fluid initial state

Setting a fluid initial state - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Setting a fluid initial state

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- [Instructor] Initial state is a feature of simulations in which we can set the initial conditions for a simulation based upon the current conditions, so that means you can run a simulation until you get a result that you like and then store that as the initial state or start conditions for a new simulation. This is very helpful in many situations, a classic example being this one in which I simply want this glass of water to settle down and become completely motionless before an action is performed upon it. I have a simple animation here in which the glass gets knocked over and this purple cylinder here is going to be the emitter for a 3ds Max fluid simulation. If we rewind back to frame zero, I scale down the emitter a bit in order to make this a more dramatic example I'll make it so that the liquid sloshes around in the glass a bit so we can actually see when the initial state is being stored. Okay so that's why I've scaled down just for clarity in the demo. But normally it would…

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