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    Simulate Fluids with Bifrost

    Whether you are using Bifrost to simulate liquid or aero, many of the basic tasks are the same.

    Topics in this section
    • Create a Bifrost simulation
    • Preview a Bifrost simulation
    • Disable a Bifrost simulation temporarily
    • Control the voxel resolution of a Bifrost simulation
    • Work with Bifrost emitters
    • Work with Bifrost colliders
    • Control velocity with Bifrost motion fields
    • Modify values with channel fields
    • Delete particles with kill fields
    • Work with Bifrost killplanes
    • Work with Bifrost Kill Volume and Clipping input meshes
    • Limit the volume of a mesh's effect using boundary controls
    • Paint Bifrost attributes
    • Work with Bifrost user caches
    • Work with Bifrost meshes
    • Render a Bifrost simulation
    • Import an example Bifrost scene
    • Convert Bifrost scenes from previous versions
    Parent topic: Bifrost Fluids

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