Multiresolution 2d Fluids (pond)

[guillaumerocheron]

Hi,

Realflow has a really nice feature in realwave which is the hypermesh. It basically puts more voxels on the 2D grid where objects are going to interact with it. It is a really good feature in case you want to sim a really big water surface with some really localised interactions.

So, i'm wondering if there would be any trick in Maya Fluids to achieve something more or less similar.

My first guesses would be :
- Doing the sim on small chunk on fluid and then blending the caches together
- Or being able to connect fluid systems together

... suggestions and ideas are more than welcome because there is maybe some totally different approaches that would be working.

thanks !
guil

[duncanbrinsmead]

The ocean has the notion of a dynamic wake that is local that adds on top of the procedural waves that stretch to the horizon. In addition one could use multiple wakes... perhaps using a large low resolution wake with a smaller more detailed wake in the center near the boat( I've not tried it and the waves will sum from the two wakes, although one could map a texture to the large wake to lower its amplitude in the center ).

Duncan