Fill a volume with spheres from a particles generator

Question

I'd like fill a volume with spheres from a particles generator

Maybe I can use Rigid Body options but I don't know how I can

Could you help ?

It a sphere volume with Solidify modifier

I tried with Blender 2.78a I have some crashes to apply Rigid Body informations to spheres objects generated by particles generator. What could I do to fill the volume with spheres ?

EDIT: I use three Arrays Modifiers and use I copied Rigid Body informations from Active Object

Could you please be more specific? What kind of volume? What should it look like? Maybe add some images with desired result. — cgslav, May 21 '17 at 14:14
If I understand correctly this should help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haS3B6q82kY — cgslav, May 21 '17 at 14:21
Related: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/63812/how-to-make-foam-with-bubbles-beer-bath — Mentalist, May 21 '17 at 14:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 25 '17 at 12:25

If I am correct that this is the effect that you are trying to achieve, the most important thing is enabling collision on the volume sphere, not rigid body simulation.

A quick visual walk-through of what I did...

1. Add three spheres

Volume sphere
Emitter sphere
Particle sphere

Note: the max draw type of the volume sphere was set to wire to make it easier to see.

2. Setup particle system on the emitter

Give the particles a long lifetime (like 250+)
Emit them from the volume of the mesh
Turn off gravity effects
Set the render mode to object with the particle sphere selected

3. Enable particle collision on the volume sphere

Note: the default settings work fine if you don't want particle damping/killing.

Fill a volume with spheres from a particles generator

1 Answers1

1. Add three spheres

2. Setup particle system on the emitter

3. Enable particle collision on the volume sphere