From the course: Maya 2018: Bifröst Fluids

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Setting an initial state

Setting an initial state - Maya Tutorial

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Setting an initial state

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- [Instructor] Initial state is a very helpful feature that allows you to store the start conditions for a simulation. I'm going to press Play in this scene and allow the simulation to run as I explain what's going on here. Initial state is a one frame cache that is loaded automatically on the first frame of the simulation. In this scene, I have had a very long run up to the current state of the simulation. After about 30 seconds, we'll get to frame one and we'll be able to see that there are a lot of particles in the shot. The particles that we see at first are the Initial State conditions for the simulation. As the simulation progresses, it becomes a live simulation that's being calculated on the fly. I did this in order to avoid a long run up to the current frame because it took tens of hours to calculate the simulation, such that the particles made it all the way down into the gully here. This is a situation in which Initial State is incredibly helpful. I'll hold down the Escape…

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