Houdini 20.0 Shelf tools

Parent Fluid shelf tool

Parents a fluid container to objects in your scene.

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Overview

This tool is useful for parenting fluid containers to moving objects in your scene. For example, a character carrying a fish bowl and dropping it, or an oil tanker driving on a hilly road. The forces of the animated object will be applied to the fluid in the container.

The fluid must be a volume fluid. Parent Fluid will not work with SPH or FLIP fluids.

Using Parent Fluid

  1. Create a fluid container and an object to parent the fluid container to.

  2. Click Parent Fluid on the Volume Fluids tab of the shelf, select the fluid container to apply to your model, then press Enter.

  3. Select the object to parent the fluid to, then press Enter.

See also

Shelf tools

Using the shelf

  • Customize the shelf

    How to change the look of the shelf, change and rearrange its contents, and create your own shelf tools.

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