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Understanding Domains, Flows, and Effectors

Now that we have covered the basics of Mantaflow, it’s time to get a little more advanced! In this chapter, we will be diving deep into Blender and learning all about domains, flows, and effectors – all the objects that make up the simulation.

There are hundreds of settings and values to tweak to your liking and it can be frustrating not knowing what they are or how to use them. The goal of this chapter is to give you a technical understanding of Mantaflow. That way, you will know exactly what all the settings and values do. We will be going through each setting, and I will give a brief description of what it does! This means that you can create your own simulations without having to do a lot of ...

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