Beyond the lesson

In this lesson you learned how to:

• Use Fill Object to create an nParticle system.
• Create passive collision objects to contain your nParticles.
• Adjust the Nucleus solver’s Space Scale attribute to suit the scale of your simulation.
• Adjust Liquid Simulation attributes to set the volume and fluidity characteristics of your liquid nParticles.

  You can continue to adjust the Liquid Simulation attributes, such as Liquid Radius Scale and Viscosity, to create liquid simulations of thicker substances such as oil, mud, or lava.

• Create and play back nParticle caches.
• Convert your nParticle object to a polygon mesh.
• Optimize the appearance of your nParticle output mesh using Output Mesh attributes such as Threshold, Mesh Smooth Iterations, and Motion Streak.
• Assign mia_material_x mental ray shaders to your nParticle output mesh.
• Render a single frame of your nParticle simulation using the mental ray for Maya renderer.