I tried to melt a cube of ice last night and got some mixed results.

I used a hi res soft body poly cube then applied gravity and collision with the floor and also a radial field that I squashed down sort of close to the floor.

What happened is the soft body particles were pulled down by gravity then began to spread out as they entered the radial field. The cube melted but I couldn't get it to look like ice. The top of the cube stayed completely sharp and cube shaped until it entered the radial field. Then it began to melt.

I think that if I used a nurb cube instead it would look better.

RealFlow probably does this very easily and very well but I think we should be able to do it using the tools that Maya comes with. It just won't be easy.:headbang: