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Figure 7-4
Adding an Icosphere
Any shape will do as a fluid. I've selected an Icosphere here mainly for visibility, although, as you'll see
shortly,theBooleanpropertiesofFluidobjectsmeanthatspherescanbeespeciallyeasytoworkwith.TheFluid
object mesh itself is used only to determine the initial shape and volume of the fluid. When the fluid simulation
begins, a new mesh is created in that shape, so the geometry of the Fluid object mesh becomes irrelevant.
ToenablethesphereasaFluidobject,onceagaingotothePhysicspropertiesarea,thistimewiththeSphere
object selected, click Fluid, and choose Fluid, as shown in
Figure 7-5
.
