I have an animated island forming from the bottom of a ‘bathtub’ by using dynamic paint displacement with the canvas ‘incremental’ option turned on. Starting at frame 250, particles rain down on a the bottom of the bathtub and build up a ‘volcano’ until frame 500. Quite happy with that.
In the same scene, I have a fluid simulation that uses that same bathtub (the one being displaced) as a fluid obstacle.
All this is contained in a domain with a fluid object to initially fill the bathtub about 25%. The fluid simulation starts at frame 1 (well before the displacement starts).
So what I want to see is the bathtub about 25% full and becoming relatively calm by frame 250. Then I want to see the island begin to form. As the island pushes up, I want to see the water spilling off it and the fluid level in the bathtub rise slightly.
Anyway, I have the fluid simulation working and baked,and I have the dynamic paint displacement working and baked, but I am not seeing the right effect. The fluid just doesn’t see the island.
I am missing a concept regarding whether this is even possible to simulate, and how I should be baking and/or applying the modifiers. The bathtub has the fluid sim (obstacle) modifier above the dynamic paint modifier (displacement). I feel like I need to move the dynamic paint above the fluid, but Blender won’t let me do this because “cannot move above a modifier requiring original data”. I tried baking the dynamic paint and then applying the dynamic paint, but I clearly don’t know what I’m doing - all of the animated displacement disappears.
I saw another post where it is possible to combine hair and cloth if you get the modifier order right. But I don’t seem to have any choice in my case. So what am I missing? Is it even possible?
I’ve attached a .blend if that helps. Bake the dynamic paint, then bake to fluid sim to duplicate my actions.
Thanks!
) but i wonder if you made your canvas a collision object in the physics panel, would that help any?