This page provides information on the Body Force component.
Overview
The Body Force produces a force toward a geometry object that can be used for giving shape to the fluid. The force is pronounced outside the body, but the inside is replaced with a mechanism that suppresses the fluid's escape.
Parameters
Body | body – Specifies the geometry object used as an attractor.
Strength | strength – Specifies the force intensity. This parameter mostly affects the points outside the body. The fluid accelerates constantly towards the body until reaching it.
You can set the Strength parameter to a negative value so the fluid gets repelled by the body.
Max distance | maxdist – Specifies the distance at which the force disappears. Note: This value can be animated when needed.
Fade start | fadestart – Specifies the relative distance (as part of the Max Distance) where the force starts to weaken.
Suppress orb. | orbitsupp – Specifies the drag force that suppresses velocity components that are different from the direction toward the body. This force works only outside the body. It only allows the fluid to move towards and away from the body, but does not allow the fluid to orbit the body.
Internal damp | veldamp – Specifies the amount of damping applied to velocities inside the body that are above the Damp min vel. threshold. This parameter is used to prevent the escape of the fluid from the body. If this value is set to 0, the fluid attracted to the body will pass right through the body, then it will be attracted back towards the body, pass through it again in the opposite direction and so on. This parameter is not affected by the Strength of the Body Force.
Damp min vel. | dampstart – The fluid velocity above which the Internal damp force works. This parameter allows slower fluid to keep moving without being damped. It does not affect the Spread Speed.
Spread Speed | insidespreading – Specifies the rate at which the fluid fills an object's volume evenly, in world units per second. This parameter is not affected by the Strength of the Body Force.
Affect | affect – Specifies the affected components of the simulation separated by commas. The supported elements are:
Liquid - affects the Liquid particles in a Liquid simulation.
Splashes - affects the Splash particles in a Liquid simulation.
Foam - affects the Foam particles in a Liquid simulation.
Mist - affects the Mist particles in a Liquid simulation.
Air - affects the space in a Liquid simulation where there are no Liquid particles, when Simulate Air Effects is enabled in the Dynamics rollout. All particles such as Foam, Splash or Mist outside the liquid volume will be influenced.
Temperature - affects the voxels in a Fire/Smoke simulation where the Temperature is different than the default 300 Kelvins. The higher the temperature above 300 or the lower it is below 300, the stronger the effect of the force would be. Check can find out more about Phoenix Grid Channel Ranges here.
Smoke - affects the voxels in a Fire/Smoke simulation where there is Smoke. The denser the smoke, the stronger the effect of the force would be.
Fuel - affects the voxels in a Fire/Smoke simulation where there is Fuel. The denser the fuel, the stronger the effect of the force would be.
Affect Names are not case sensitive and any unknown element found in the list is ignored.