Programatically Control Water Flow

Hello All,

I'm in the beginning stages of a scene in my Unity project and still a newb to Unity3D. I'm having a lot of trouble thinking of ways to simulate a fixed volume of water flowing into a container. In short, I want to create a container full of water and then via unplugging/plugging the hole at the bottom of the container, control the amount of water that would flow into a cup under the hole. The container should drain as the water flows out.

Is something like this possible? If it is, anyone that can point me in the right direction would be very helpful and much appreciated.

Thank you.

 

Hi,

you could consider that it's a "cylinder" of water inside your cup.
So, scaling your cylinder according to the amount of water is easy.
You could compute the amount of water flowing with the time ellapsed between unplugging/replugging the hole of the container.

hope it helps,
L.

 

Hello,

Thanks for your reply. I think I understand what you're saying. Give the illusion of water filling a cup by dynamically increasing the size (via increasing the scale) of the cylinder. Do the same for the container that the water is flowing out of but this time shrink the scale, to give the illusion that the container is being emptied.

R