Fluid Effects overview

Maya Fluid Effects is a technology for realistically simulating and rendering fluid motion. Fluid Effects lets you create a wide variety of 2D and 3D atmospheric, pyrotechnic, space, and viscous liquid effects.

You can use the Fluid Effects solvers to simulate these effects, or you can use fluid animated textures for more unique, distinguishing effects.

Fluid Effects also includes an ocean shader for creating realistic open water. You can float objects on the ocean surface and have those objects react to the motion of the water.

You can create the following types of effects with Fluid Effects:

Realistic atmospheric effects, such as clouds, mist, fog, steam, and smoke. cloudFlythrough3.mov	Pyrotechnics, such as fire, explosions, and nuclear blasts. nuclearBlob.mov
Viscous fluids, such as molten lava and mud. lavaflow.mov	Open water, such as calm or rough oceans with white caps and foam. oceanSwells.mov

NoteThe effects you can produce in this version of Autodesk^® Maya^® are single-fluid effects, which means you cannot have two or more fluids interacting to produce liquid-like effects (for example, pouring water, where water and air are the two fluids).