Melt Text Simulation (By Maya Fluid)

Set Background to black (Alt+B)

In FX tab → Fluids → 2D Contianers → Change perspective to front view

In Fluid1 Shape attribute (from Fluid1 layer) → Base resolution 500, Boundary X and Y: None

→ go to FluidEmitter node → Basic Emitter Attributes → Emitter Type: Surface

Fluids (top bar) → Add/Edit Contents → Paint Fluids Tool → Click L side icon below to open Tool setting:

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(If tool setting page is blank, go to Modify (top bar) → Paint Attributes Tool → close the tool page, reopen the Paint Fluids Tool again)

In Tool setting, Paintable attribute: Density →

Attribute Maps → Import → select the text file used for this tutorial → May need to click on the box in scene to show the image, now the animation is created

Go to Fluid again → Add/Edit Contents → Paint Fluids Tool → Open the tool setting on L icon too, but this time set attribute to Color → Set to Dynamics

→ Import the same image as well as before, click on the scene

Go to Fluid1 layer, FluidShape node → Display → Opacity Preview Gain: 1

→ Contents Details → Denisty Scale: 1; Buoyancy: 1.5; Pressure: 0.2

Speed up viewpoint performance:

nCache (top bar) → MayaFluid box

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