I am asking… no… begging for someone to save me.
today i did one of Andrew Prices’s online tutortials:
Create a Realistic Water Simulation in Blender
and I can not for the life of me figure out why my Domain Cube keeps rendering when i hit F12 but does not render when i change my viewport to rendered view.
if i delete my domain cube the fluid is gone but the scene renders fine, but when i make the domain cube it renders like a big box and I can’t see the fluid through the box.
According to Andrew’s tutortial, it’s just magically becomes invisible, but I have no such luck. PLEASE save me guys, i’m a noob that doesn’t want to be discourage so early in my learning.
Thanks! let me know if anybody needs screen captures.
Jack [email protected]
Look in the Outliner Window. To the far right for each object are 3 icons. These control if the object is visible in the viewport, is selectable and renderable. When you set the viewport to rendered this does not take into account the renderability tag, this is just when you press f12 to render. You can use these to control what is visible when
Be clear what you are seeing, whether it is the domain or the fluid object. Without more info it is difficult to exactly tell what you have as there are so many variables. Therefore I can only give you the basic help above. If you want a specific answer give much more useful info (full screenshots of all important info showing ecxactly what the problem is and a link to your blend file)
Ok i’ll try this, but i think i tried that before. when I make the domain box non renderable, the fluid disappears too. i’ll post some pics later. thanks so much for the help.
i can’t seem to touch the domain cube without it affecting the fluid 1:1
if i delete it, so goes the fluid, it i make it unrenderable, so is the fluid…
1st, take a breath and relax. 2nd, save the .blend file and post it so somebody can dig into your settings and see what’s wrong and 3rd, did I mention taking a breath and relaxing? Be patient and some one will post back. From what I could tell the 2nd image shows an incomplete rendering process. If you only waited for a couple of passes, wait for a couple hundred or more. The fireflys fade as time goes on.
Jack Paccione, have you followed the suggestions that Richard Marklew gave you above?
If yes, than you could look at the Physics panel for the Domain cube; near the Fluid button there are two buttons, the camera and the eye: as in the Outliner they should be both active to see fluid either in the viewport and in the rendering. You can find those same two buttons also in the Modifier panel, under the Fluidsim modifier.
Thanks for the help guys. I figured out the problem this morning – and a i suspected, it was a button click away. I never “Applied” the bake, so when i rendered the scene, the domain cube was still there. Simply pressing “apply” on the fluid simulation was all i needed to do to fix the problem…
