Convert fluids to polygons
 
 
 

You can convert a fluid to a polygonal mesh, which you can then treat like any other polygon. Before the conversion, you can use the Output Mesh attributes to set the quality of resulting polygon mesh.

To set the quality of the output mesh

  1. Select the fluid container.
  2. In the Attribute Editor, click the fluidShape tab.
  3. In the Output Mesh section do the following:

To convert a fluid to polygons

  1. Select the fluid container.
  2. Select Modify > Convert > Fluid to Polygons.