From the course: Maya 2018: Bifröst Fluids

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Pushing liquid with a Motion Field

Pushing liquid with a Motion Field - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2018: Bifröst Fluids

Pushing liquid with a Motion Field

- [Instructor] To impart velocity to a Bifrost fluid, we use a motion field. Select the bounding box in the viewport, and the liquid-shaped node is selected. Go into the Bifrost Fluids menu and choose Add, Motion Field and in the outliner we can open up BifrostMotionField1 and inside that is the container and with that container selected, let's go into its attributes. We have the motion field properties. Magnitude of one. When we open up the Field Direction here and we see that direction is set to positive X. We have X, Y and Z here with X set to a value of positive one. Press play in the timeline and we can see that the fluid is drifting slightly towards screen right in my case. The fluid is being pushed to the side in the world positive X direction. Press stop and rewind. Back in the MotionFieldContainer attributes, let's change the direction. Set direction X to zero and direction Z to one, press play and now the fluid is moving in the world positive Z direction. Press stop and…

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