But it is exacly what I need...I want to fill up a glass with sand...it is mostly the piling up sand I am concerned with not the falling sand...I have particle illusion and I been able to create the falling sand but not the piling up sand...the link about has a post from Jason stating that he has made this effect using two emitters within PI but his link to his tutorial did not work...
Re: Sand Pile Up/ Hourglass effect by Alan Lorence on May 7, 2008 at 9:32:13 pm
I've been thinking about this, and through the magic of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine website (Google it), I was able to retrieve the old wibwobweb site.
I've downloaded the project file, and have saved it to particleIllusion 3 format. Download here: