fluid source relationship

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Hello,
does anybody know why the tank stops filling up after while?
If I put the source at the top it's no problem but from the moment it's at the bottem with the velocityY @ 1 it just stops after while.

I don't understand why. :?:

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c.

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really nobody out there who can help?
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Heya Claudio,

I don't have houdini in front of me at the moment, but your description caught my eye. take this with a grain of salt, as I can't even look at your file.

I've recently discovered that a ‘source’ in a voxel based fluid, SETs density, not INCREASES density as you might expect.

With that in mind, if you source is above the waterline, gravity moves the fluid away from the source, then then source adds more, which gravity moves down etc….

With the source BELOW the water line, nothing happends since the density is already $somevalue.

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This explains allot G.
thx again! :wink:
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