Hidden Under The Ice

The Next steps will be the hydralisk, making the proper fire and lava emissions for it. Right now it doesn't stop emitting lava from its headcap, looks like it is emitting hot gooey cheese :D. I have to make certain limitations for it.

So it took quite some time to get an idea about fluid simulations. I used a wavetank and whitewater to get a working fluid simulation. It needs tweaking to make it look very good, but these are the first steps and as it is right now, its alright. I did not have much time to let the sequence load to the end, my notebook took to long and I had to go.

I started yesterday with my first attempt to create the fractures for the ice. I failed. Today I customised my fracture node instead using the presets from wood, concrete or glass. using that link to get an understanding of it:

https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/destruction/custom.html

I think the result I created turned out really nice as seen below.

As seen in the pictures, the melting ice creates steam and tries to escape through the lava which results in creating bubbles

As the object explodes, it pushes the frozen layer of ice up, pressing air out and then water out as seen in those pictures below.