Particle Stickiness

[timrozek]

Ok, so I'm a little new to maya fluids and particles, so of course my newest job requires me to use this. I'm currently faced with the task of finding a good way to create bubbles that collide and then form into 1 body.

I've been steered in the Blobby Particle direction but up to now, haven't had any luck. Basically I need it to look like a bubble is coming off of the surface of another, larger bubble, and vice versa.

Is there a way to get blobbies to stick to each other (appear to be of the same mesh) until they are seperated too much and break apart into 2 seperate bodies? Think a drop of viscous liquid in zero-G colliding with a bigger body of viscous liquid and becoming part of the same body.

[christianmassyn]

Sounds like a job for realflow. If you have it, and may use it, its not that difficult to simulate in realflow even if u never used it before. The plugins integrate nicey with maya so you can do whatever else neads to be done in maya and render from thee

[joojaa]

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I've been steered in the Blobby Particle direction but up to now, haven't had any luck. Basically I need it to look like a bubble is coming off of the surface of another, larger bubble, and vice versa.

thets not actually very hard to do, in maya either. But it depends a abit on what you exactly need done.

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t, its not that difficult to simulate in realflow even if u never used it before

well my experience is exactly the opposite of this.

[timrozek]

Ok, so I've played with it a bit more. Basically, it's easy to get them to blob together when they are part of the same particle system. But it seems that particles that are part of the same system can't be animated separately.

If they are 2 particles that are part of different systems then they won't blob together when I bump the threshold up.

So I guess the question now is, is there a way to get particles of 2 different systems to blob together, or is there a way to create 2 particles within 1 system that can move independently of one another?

[joojaa]

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But it seems that particles that are part of the same system can't be animated separately.

Well actually you can quite easily. Perhaps te easiest way is to use a poly shape as goal and animate the points of the polygon goals. but thats just one easy way theres atleast as many ways of doing this as not to do it. Also 2 particle systems can drive one other particle system that blends them per particle. but yes this can be done.

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So I guess the question now is, is there a way to get particles of 2 different systems to blob together

Nope, but the other option is possible. Off course if you use mr you can collapse the particles together reder description time. That would accomplish this.