Hello,

I have a simple question about Fluid Dynamics in Maya. Basically I have an emitter and a container, the emitter has settings such as Density/Voxel/Sec, Heat/Voxel/Sec, Fuel/Voxel/Sec and Turbulence. Those properties can be found in the fluid container as well. Density Scale, Velocity Scale, Temperature Scale and Turbulence Strength.

I was wondering what’s the difference between Density (and the other 3 properties) of the container and Density of the Emitter. According to the Maya Help File, Density/Voxel/Sec is the Density per voxel in each second. But Density of the fluid is how dens/thick the fluid is. (it sounds to me exactly the same..)

I made a little test myself, by creating 2 identical Emitters/Containers and one had increased Density Scale and the other one had increase Density/Voxel/Sec. I’m guessing that 20 Density Scale is not the same as 20 Density/Voxel/Sec but even when I played around with the numbers I couldn’t get both of them to look the same.

So, what is the difference between changing the values in the emitter and changing the values in the fluid itself. Why change the values of the emitter when you have more control over the container?

Thank you.