Converting a 3D fluid to polygons

An optional step that we can take with our simulation is to convert it to polygons. …Very similar to what we did with the end particle liquid simulation. …If we convert to polygons, we'll have more control over the tesselation. …The downside of that is, if we convert to polygons we will lose whatever texturing …work we've done. And there won't be any way for us to …texture a polygon fluid, because it doesn't have any UVs, and there's no way …for us to just slap a material on it that has a texture.…

So that will really work if you've got a fluid that has a uniform appearance, like …if it's water or milk or something like that. …Then it won't need a texture. But for fluids that need a texture then, …you can't convert to polygons, because you won't have the ability to texture …them after conversion. Let's see what it looks like if we do …convert to polygons. I'll just park on a representative frame, …and then select my fluid container, and go into the Modify menu, and choose …Convert Fluid to Polygons. And you see as soon as I did that I did …