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Now that I have familiarized myself with Blender, and have a working fluid simulator plugin for C4D, I am in good shape to begin A/B testing. I have only scratched the surface, but it is very impressive. Yet Blender seems to be very capable as a 3D program. Many 3D programs are horrifically expensive without student licensing, I could never afford to touch most of the 3D tools I’ve been learning over the years. I am honestly shocked that Blender is a free program. The world is terrifying, and we could all use something sweet.
#Realflow blender series#
I choose this particular video series because it employs procedurally generated elements, and covers all the basic modeling commands, node handling, and the complete stack of scene construction. I decided to follow a beginner’s tutorial to get my feet wet. A realistic water shader with simple controls to affect flow direction, speed, Flow breakup strength and scale to provide more natural continuous motion, and how much foam and waves are produced in the fast flowing parts of the texture.
#Realflow blender software#
I needed to become more familiar with the software and interface.
I began following this tutorial, but quickly found myself getting lost. I’ve been emailing back and forth all week, and they finally got a fix for me - SUCCESS! While I waited to sort that out, I decided to give Blender a try. Unfortunately, I ran into a licensing problem with Next Limit’s RealFlow plugin.
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Licence packs start at $2,245, including one floating and one node-locked licence, plus a year’s maintenance and licence of Maxwell Render.After struggling with Cinema 4D, I decided to use a plugin rather than trying to cludge together some handcrafted fluid simulation.
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RealFlow 2015 is available for 64-bit Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. There are also changes to the UI designed to streamline workflow, summarised in the video above. Most simulation properties can be displayed in spreadsheet form, enabling users to edit sims on a per-particle basis: for example, by filtering out and deleting particles outside the main fluid flow. Less visually appealing, but equally important for TDs – or anyone else needing to troubleshoot large simulations – RealFlow 2015 now supports a spreadsheet-based workflow. In addition, all of RealFlow’s daemons now support distance-based falloff for fine-tuning simulations and there is now a dedicated daemon for creating crown splash effects. There is also a new text tool, which generates letters either as native RealFlow primitives for sims to interact with or as splines, which again can be used as emitters or control forces. In addition, there are a range of new tools for achieiving more precise user control over sims, including the option to use splines – which can be imported in SVG format – as fluid emitters or to control forces. New control splines, text tool and crown splash daemon We imagine many users will still want to export finished sims to an external renderer for final-quality output, but it looks an interesting look-development workflow. 0.3.9 colors exported in 32 bits and as shown in blender (gamma correction), added grass modifier presets, added displacement in extension materials, added stereo cameras (maxwell 3.2), added realflow particles bin export operator (file > export menu), updated material presets (maxwell 3.2.1. RealFlow 2015 also introduces the option to render still frames or animations directly within the software, using Next Limit’s own Maxwell Render engine. Next Limit also says that “more in-depth integration” of the OpenVDB algorithms in RealFlow 2015 improves collision accuracy in Hybrido sims, particularly with complex or fast-moving objects. I haven't even thought about exporting particles as. So try to use that in this Realflow - Blender case.
OpenVDB meshing is now enabled by default for both particle-based simulations and sims created using the Hybrido grid/particle-based solver – which again promises a 10x boost in performance. bin files from Realflow which was deprecated since then due to implementing Alembic import. Note: Since fluid simulations are computationally expensive and allocate large amounts of disk space we recommend Intel i7 or Xeon systems (or comparable), 16 GB RAM (or more) and a 512 GB hard disk drive/SDD. The new solvers make use of OpenCL rather than CUDA, so they should work with any modern GPU. RealFlow Cinema 4D supports GPU-based simulations and multi-core/multi-processor systems. There are Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Point Based Dynamics versions, and Next Limit promises a speed boost of 10x over the old, CPU-based equivalents. The headline feature in RealFlow 2015 is probably the new GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers, shown above.
#Realflow blender update#
Next Limit has released RealFlow 2015, a significant update to its fluid simulation package, adding two new GPU-accelerated fluid solvers and a range of new artist and TD tools.ĭyverso: new OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated solvers