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Houdini smoke stops being affected by forces at one point of the simulation


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Hi 
So I want to make the smoke fill the spiral tube and I'm pretty close to result I've been aiming for but i've run into a problem I can't seem to resolve. At one point in the simulation smoke stops responding to forces and just follows the tube (attachment). 

My process of making this set up:

1. convert tube to volume

2. attract billowy smoke emitted from sphere to the volume tube (attract fluid)

3. add a curve force (curve was used to make the tube so it is in the middle of the tube)

 

I've tried changing every paramiter I could think of but nothing helped. Anyone has any ideas?

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you'd think it's the curveforce...but no...disabling it still gets  you the same effect (NO effect after a certain distancce that is)...

It has something to do with the size of your sphere1, ie. uniformsdale to 0.5 and you'll see immediately the NON-effect kicks in SOONER...make it larger and the non-effect will be later....

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1 hour ago, Noobini said:

you'd think it's the curveforce...but no...disabling it still gets  you the same effect (NO effect after a certain distancce that is)...

It has something to do with the size of your sphere1, ie. uniformsdale to 0.5 and you'll see immediately the NON-effect kicks in SOONER...make it larger and the non-effect will be later....

I'm caching the scaled sphere sim now, i'll try this after and let you know how did it go, whatever the result, thank you for the help.

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Changing the Disturbance setting did help, altho the turbulance still isn't there and if I try to tweak those same settings for turbulance(even with lower values), the smoke just goes crazy, I'll try a some more tommorow but right now it's 2am so I guess some sleep would be a nice idea. Once again thanks for all the help.

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