Interactive Milk Simulation + Reveal

Beginners
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Hi peeps,

Supernoob here.

Is there a way to create a fairly realistic milk simulation in TD? And then have the mouse pointer create a ripple effect in the milk in order to reveal an image behind it? So wherever I move mouse pointer, the ripple effect would follow it, thus revealing parts of the image along the way.

I’m on a Mac so I don’t have NVIDIA or Windows so not sure what the best way is to go about it. Shaders seem like the next possible step but again - supernoob over here. Some instructions on how to approach this would be more than helpful.

Thank you so much!

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There are lots of places you can investigate here. Some places to check include:

I don’t think Kurt’s approach is limited to NVIDIA hardware, I think it’s all shader based. You might need to turn down the level of detail / or resolution, but that’s a good place to start investigating.

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Thank you so much, Matthew. Really good starting points.

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This shader from Cornus Amonnis: Shader - Shadertoy BETA

You will have to tweak colors to make it look like milk. This is only 2D fluids though.

I don’t know much about ip rights with shadertoy, maybe you need to mention the author in your work.cornusDisplace.1.toe (8.8 KB)