How to get particles to conform to shape of container.

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I’m trying to fill a container with particles, but they just seem to pool at the bottom of the cylinder in pool the shape of a cube. (The emitter is a square plane.)

Here’s my .blend: https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B630LXzDZIyiYTk2NGQ5ZGYtYjBhYS00ZWZlLTg4NmMtYjhhMjcyY2Q1MmVj&hl=en_US.

FWIW, I’m using Blender 2.58.

Thanks for your time,
Tyler

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I’m doing some experiment too. I’ve seen the tutorial made by andrew price on ice. In that he deformed the plane to get particles spread all over the volume. I don’t like this solution very much, so I’am trying to use a volume emitter instead of a flat one. I have only the problem that child particles can exit from the volume box causing me some problems.
Someone has an idea about how to fix this beahvior?

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Isn’t that what the harmonic force field is used for?

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mmm… never played with force fields. I cannot find nothing interesting on this topic… Anyway I’ve tried to apply a force field to the particle system but nothing happens. There’s other I have to do in order to make this feature work?

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I cannot find nothing interesting on this topic

Yeah, I guess there is no reason to do a google search on the word Blender and Harmonic. Or even search the forum.:stuck_out_tongue:

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I figured it out. I was using the wrong particle physics for the effect I wanted. The particles using the fluid physics conform to the shape of their container.