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Wish
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Hi! Is there any chance to make sand emitting from geometry? What I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

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jason_iversen
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I'm afraid the support for Sand hasn't been fully developed yet. It's a pretty tempting looking solver though, unfortunately it's not really ready for use at all. I hope SESI get around to rounding it out and supporting it in the future but if I were you, I'd look for another solution for the next little while.
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shauki
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Hi, the question from 2008 is actual for me in 2015: how is it possible to emit sand/grain as particles for filling a volume? I read in the help about POP Grain, but do not find an example how to pour none stop sand.
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jlait
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Using pop grains, ideally setup from the Grains shelf tools, you can use a normal emitter to continuously emit. The trick is you can't emit where sand already is or you'll get explosions. The “Remove Overlapping: With Existing” option can be used on the POP Source to do this.

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shauki
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perfect! thanks!!
When opening your scene I get the message: Skipping unrecognized parameter “lookupobjpath”
But the simulation works as I wanted - thanks again!
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