Important! Tyflow free (or PRO) and MAX 2021 are required to make this setup work! You can get it from here https://docs.tyflow.com/download/

This is a ready-to-use Tyflow-based condensation system with animated droplets that will work on all your meshes. It will generate a variety of droplets on the surface of the object and the bigger ones will eventually roll down in a realistic manner. You just need to place your mesh on the Geometry layer and the system will update automatically.

This is not a fluids system, it's purely based on meshed particles, but it looks convincing and it's faster to update. The whole simulation (200 frames) takes less than 1 minute on an old system.

Features:

• You can change the number of total droplets, the number of the bigger droplets (the ones that will roll down) and the sizes of them all.
• You can go slowmotion changing the retime section of the Tyflow object.
• As the droplets roll down, they will drag and add to the stream all nearby droplets, big or small.
• Natural looking look with overlapping droplets and clean, graphic look with non-overlapping droplets, just disabling an operator
• The Tyflow system is meshed using Tyflow's native mesher, Tymesher, so that all the droplets get a convincing, fluid-like continuous mesh. This allows you to export the animated tymesh object to Alembic and use it in Maya, Cinema4D, etc.
• It renders flawlessly in all render engines. A Redshift-ready scene is provided for your convenience. Redshift was used to renders all the previews for this model.
• There's an option to make the droplets fall to the ground and collide with it in the setup (disabled by default).
• There are instructions to change the most common features inside the Quick tips operator inside Tyflow

I've added a snapshot of the droplets mid-animation in Alembic, FBX and OBJ formats for your convenience.

Need changes? Custom solutions might be possible depending on my availability. Don't be afraid to ask.