Inspiration
I've always wanted to wear nails and maybe I did painted them sometime during my teens but I was never really attracted to the simplicity of them. This changes now that I can make them in AR thus I can make them to be animated and act as a liquid!
What it does
This manicure set grows from your nails and flows like a liquid.
How we built it
I created the fluid simulation in Houdini, then exported as VATs, and put it together in Lens Studio
Challenges we ran into
I used a couple of splines and the fluid kept spilling. File size limitations for Lens Studio
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Understanding how to create VATs for fluid simulations in general! This is my 5th time trying to get into Houdini but I never really had the inspiration or motive to do so. This project pushed me!
What we learned
You can compress the normal map to save space but not the position map. I couldn't export anything bigger than 1024 resolution from Houdini that was readable by Lens
What's next for Liquid Nails
More shapes, colors, and animations!
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