From the course: Maya 2018: Bifröst Fluids
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Caching foam - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2018: Bifröst Fluids
Caching foam
- [Instructor] When we're satisfied with the result of the Bifröst foam properties, we're ready now to save a cache and we can use cache control to do that. Reading from the liquid cache while writing to the foam cache at the same time. If you have a slow hard drive, you might want to consider putting the foam cache on a separate drive. On my system I didn't encounter any issues. So I'll go ahead and create the new folder for the foam cache, and that will be inside the current project, cache, Bifröst, and in there create a new folder. Right click and choose new folder. I'll give it the name of the current scene file which is 0503caching_foam. Inside that folder I need to create another folder. Right click, new folder, and call it Bifröst liquid container one. The L is a capital L, and the C is a capital C. Back in Maya, let's go to the Bifröst foam properties one node, and scroll down and find its cache section. Caching, foam cache, open that up. Turn on the enable switch and put in…
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