Particle Flow would probably work best in my opinion.

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Rick

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I know someone who did an awesome slow mo water droplet using morph targets. It could be a little tricky but maybe that and a combination of meta particles could work. (blobmesh in p-flow)

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Pflow would probably be easiest if you're not looking to deform the drops at all. Here's a quick tute:

1: Create a plane, a UDeflector a gravity space warp and a PF source object. In the UDeflector's basic parameters rollout, add the plane as the collision geometry.
2: Open particle view and change the settings (shape, speed etc) as desired until you get it to you liking. Add a force operator and add your gravity space warp to the list of forces.
3: Add a collision spawn test and select the udeflector as the collision object.
4: Collision spawn settings:

Spawn rate and amount: Change to spawn on each collision until # 3
Speed: Parent: continue, Offspring: bounce. This is so you don't end up with masses of particles sitting on your plane. Also maybe up the variation on divergence abit, but leave everything else.
Size: Scale factor: 50%, variation: 20%

That should get you off to a good start. You'll probably also want to add a wind space warp to get some realistic movements and a shape mark operator to leave a damp patch behind where the droplets land.

Let me know if I've missed something or if you have any questions.

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Sorry I didnt look at the video file cos my work machine couldnt play it. now that I see it. I think that if you arent familiar with particle flow you could nail that effect just with a standard max super spray with meta particles.

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Yeh, if it's just a single drop superspray is probably fine but if you want lots of drops breaking up into smaller drops pflow would be the way to go.

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i go with particles flow with blob mesh and water reactor for the splash if it is close up but if it is like a rain - i will just use rain emitters (scripted particles)

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