Paramters Tuning

This page will tell you all need to know on the parameters to ajust the visual outlook.

You will notice that there are a set of parameters on the SSF_LoadParticlesFromParticleSystem inspector:

The meaning of these parameters are as follows:

Name	Description
ParticleBufferUpdateInterval	The interval for updating particle data to GPU, <0 means update every frame. Adjust this value to your preferred visual frame rate
Thickness	The thickness of the liquid. The higher the value, the more precipitated and solid the color will be visually.
Noise	The detail turbulence of the surface. The higher the value, the more turbulence the surface will show. It is implemented by adding perturbation to the surface normal.
Render Params	Fluid surface rendering related parameters are listed separately below and may change with version iterations

Render Params

Name	Description
IsTransparent	0 for traditional blinn-phong rendering, 1 for fluid rendering, value in-between means blending
Ior	Refractive Index of Fluid (1.33 for water...)
Smoothness	higher value for more smoothness
Fresnel Power	higher value gives more refraction
Min/Max Reflection Ratio	this constraints the amount of reflection, if no reflection is needed, just set them to 0, vice versa, 1 for no refraction
Ambient/Diffuse/Specular Color	Very traditional Blinn-phong model

Here's some comparisions on differnt paramters.

Non trasparent

transparent

high thickness

low thickness

no reflection(pure refraction)

reflection and refraction

no reflection, high fresnel power

no reflection, normal fresnel power