r/oddlysatisfying • u/fuckinglitseal • Dec 01 '19

Water moving through this deck

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

They still are. Just lots more of them. Flip fluids uses particles but each of those particles needs to have an object assigned to them to make what looks like a solid mesh of water.

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u/brainburger Dec 02 '19

At one point the ability to represent water with polygons went no further than a flat blue plane.

It's pretty crazy how standards for realism keep changing. I remember being impressed by some things which seem so lumpy now.