29-04-2022, 04:40 PM
I'm trying to make an eyedropper that emits single particles when pressed, like real drops of water coming out of it. This doesn't work very well however, because at the resolution that I need the fluid to be the individual drops are completely invisible due to being rendered so tiny. Once two or three of them bunch up they suddenly become visible, though just barely as a small spastic dot. If you add a few more they jump to their final size they would appear as in a body of fluid.
Even if I could reduce the fluid resolution, there would still be a problem because the jumps in size are so large. Reducing it from 100 to a point where I have properly sized single particles at 5 will cause a horrific event to happen as soon as a few particles bunch to cross the threshold where the particles are rendered at their proper size, since the jump in scale becomes more apparent with decreasing fluid resolution. The fluid basically turns from something that looks like two or three drops to a huge ball of fluid ten times the size in an instant as soon as you add another particle.
Is there some way to reduce or completely disable this scaling effect or are single particles just not an option? I couldn't find anything in the fluid renderer settings that affects it.
Even if I could reduce the fluid resolution, there would still be a problem because the jumps in size are so large. Reducing it from 100 to a point where I have properly sized single particles at 5 will cause a horrific event to happen as soon as a few particles bunch to cross the threshold where the particles are rendered at their proper size, since the jump in scale becomes more apparent with decreasing fluid resolution. The fluid basically turns from something that looks like two or three drops to a huge ball of fluid ten times the size in an instant as soon as you add another particle.
Is there some way to reduce or completely disable this scaling effect or are single particles just not an option? I couldn't find anything in the fluid renderer settings that affects it.