Foam Sprayers

Introduction

This was my attempt trying to recreate the foam techniques from the amazing PROTECT project from XK Studio. One of the frames from their project that I used as reference is shown below.

For more insight in to their process and development, take a look at their video here: XK Studio BTS

Below are some of my results while testing and iterating on simulation settings.

Video On Demand

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Flipbook iterations
06:10 Scene walkthrough
06:30 Vellum wire simulation setup
09:50 Setting up the FLIP emission source
12:33 Initial velocity for FLIP emission
14:10 Procedural noise from rest coordinates
15:28 FLIP simulation overview
15:50 VEX wrangle to control divergence
18:50 Surface tension settings
20:35 Post simulation workflow
23:10 Visualize shader noise from rest attribute
39:10 Visualize age particle attribute
44:18 Visualizing divergence in FLIP simulation
51:00 Wrapping up and overview

Scene File

2022_09_16_mtlx_bismuth_metals.hiplc