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Quick fluids using nCloth

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Quick fluids using nCloth

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- [Narrator] Hi I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to work with fluids. We're going to do a simple fluid simulation of a fluid in a glass using nCloth, and this is actually a very quick way to do simple fluids. So here I have a glass and inside the glass I have some fluid. Now in order to do the simulation we need to set up two things. We need to turn the fluid into an nCloth, and then that needs to collide with the glass. So we could do all of this under the FX menu, and so I'm going to go ahead and select the fluid, and under nCloth I'm going to do create nCloth. So once we've done that, and I press play, you can see how it instantly falls through the glass, and that's not what we want, because we want the glass to collide with it. So I'm going to select the glass, and then do create passive collider, and now once we do that and press play you'll see that we do get an effect. But that's because right now our fluid is actually behaving a little bit more like cloth, and let me…

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