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Analyzing the simulation in the Node Editor

Analyzing the simulation in the Node Editor - Maya Tutorial

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Analyzing the simulation in the Node Editor

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- [Instructor] Maya's node editor gives us a handy interface for analyzing and navigating a bifrost simulation. With my outliner still displaying shapes, I can go near the bottom of the outliner and select bifrost liquid container one, which is the shape node subordinate to bifrost liquid one. With bifrost liquid container one selected, open the node editor from windows, node editor. Then click on the button on the toolbar, input and output connections. Now we see the graph of the bifrost simulation. We can zoom in with the mouse wheel. Bifrost liquid container one is the global solver node, sometimes called the domain. This solver is of the type known as FLIP, or fluid implicit particles. The solution of this simulation is passed to the liquid shape node for rendering. With the bifrost liquid container node selected in the node editor, we see its attributes displayed in the attribute editor. Its evaluation type is simulation, because it's the global solver node. At the top of each…

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