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Converting Between Fluid and Softbody? - Kemo. - 08-03-2023
Hey all, I was wondering if it's possible, and if so how one might go about, to convert a volume of obi fluid into a softbody and vice versa during runtime?
Is there anything preventing me from creating a mesh from a volume of obi particles and instantiating a new softbody actor/blueprint?
RE: Converting Between Fluid and Softbody? - josemendez - 08-03-2023
(08-03-2023, 03:10 PM)Kemo. Wrote: Hey all, I was wondering if it's possible, and if so how one might go about, to convert a volume of obi fluid into a softbody and vice versa during runtime?
Is there anything preventing me from creating a mesh from a volume of obi particles and instantiating a new softbody actor?
Hi there!
It's possible but potentially very slow.
You can create a mesh from a volume of particles using any isosurface extraction method of your choosing, common ones are marching cubes or surface nets. Then you can create a softbody blueprint out of the resulting mesh at runtime. Both steps are quite slow, marching cubes in particular since you need the results on the CPU to generate a blueprint out of it.
To go the opposite way, you can use a voxel mesh shape emitter using the softbody mesh as input.
kind regards,