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Description

RealFlow 2013 is coming in May! (Free upgrade to users with current maintenance)

RealFlow is a unique fluids and body dynamics software package which allows you to simulate anything from a single drop of water to a massive tsunami crashing across a beach, sweeping debris in its wake. RealFlow is the definitive tool for creating flawless large- and small-scale fluid and dynamics simulations straight out of the box.

 

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RealFlow 2012 New Features

Hybrido

• Dripping water, automatic foam generation, faster simulations and lower memory use
• New emitters: Wet, Waterline, Splash&Foam, Wet&Foam
• Faster input/output operations
• Distance and velocity fields and velocity and vorticity maps can now be exported
• Greater controllability of fluid surface – new method of combining particles and fluid fields.
• Better control of the strength of interaction between objects and fluids
• Secondary splashes

Fracture Tool

• RealFlow 2012 now provides a built-in, easy-to-use tool to create fractured objects directly within your project.
• Voronoi fracturing method
• Automatic generation of multibody node for fractured object
• Optimized fractures for Caronte

Retimer Tool

• The Retimer Tool in RealFlow 2012 works on any of the RealFlow 2012 elements and opens up a world of possibilities
• Bullet time effects
• Reversed simulations
• Slow motion effects
• All these are now just a few clicks away with no need to re-simulate

Servos Engines

• Dynamic simulations controlled by engines
• By using Servos, it is possible to use RealFlow's dynamics solver to animate rigid bodies in a physically-correct fashion

GUI Enhancements

• New Layers panel – faster workflow, easier simulation, improved visibility
• RealFlow 2012 also comes with some new shortcuts shelves
• Nodes list can now be filtered by name

Included

• Support and Maintenance for 1 year
• Upgrades (major and minor)
• All the latest plug-ins and patches

 

RealFlow, RFRK and RF Node Pipeline

 

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RealFlow 2012 Product Packs

• The RealFlow Starter Pack - (For freelancers and small studios with 1 - 10 VFX artists)

•     1 x RealFlow
•     5 x RealFlow Render Kit
•     5 x RealFlow nodes

The RealFlow Studio Bundle - (For medium studios with 11-50 VFX artists)

• 2 x RealFlow 
• 10 x RealFlow Render Kit
• 10 x RealFlow Nodes

RealFlow UNLIMITED - (For large studios with 50+ VFX artists)

• UNLIMITED RealFlow Standard, Node and RenderKit licenses, upgrades to the latest version and dedicated technical support.

 

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Features

• Liquids
  • Particle-based liquids
  • Grid-based liquids
  • Hybrido technology
    • Large scales
    • Coupling particle-based and grid-based liquids
    • Splash
    • Foam
      • Particle-based
      • Texture-based
    • Mist
    • Statistical spectrum displacement
  • Multi-threaded
• Gases
  • Particle-based thermal and iso-thermal gases
• Elastics
• Fibers
• Particle emitters
  • Circle
  • Square
  • Sphere
  • Linear
  • Triangle
  • Spline
  • Cylinder
  • Bitmap
  • Object
  • Fill
  • Binary Loader
  • NBinary Loader
  • Container
• Bodies
  • Caronte Body Dynamics Solver
  • Rigid bodies
    • Collision primitives: cube, sphere, convex hull and mesh
    • State-of-the-art stacking
    • Multi-threaded
  • Soft bodies
    • Free-form deformation based
    • Efficient for high polygon-count meshes
    • Permanent deformation
    • Multi-threaded
  • Joints
    • Automatic creation and break
    • Ability to connect rigid-rigid, rigid-soft and soft-soft bodies
    • Permanent deformation
• Fluid surfaces (RealWave)
  • Statistical spectrum wave for the generation of realistic oceans
  • Control points wave
  • Fractal wave
  • Spectrum wave
  • Gerstner wave
  • SDK built wave
  • Export as a displacement texture
  • Object splash
  • Crest splash
  • Depth texture
  • Downstream
  • Custom geometry
• MultiBody nodes
  • For efficient handling of scenes with many objects
• Meshes
  • Standard mesh
    • Metaballs
    • Micro-polygons
    • Cloning objects
    • Camera level of detail
    • Camera, objects and RealWave clipping
    • Texture based on particle attributes or particle UV
    • Tension and relaxation filters
    • Camera and geometry clipping
    • Optimized curvature and camera-based
    • Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
  • RFRK mesh (RealFlow RenderKit)
    • Multi-threaded
    • Field Types (Metaballs or Spheres)
    • Auto polygon size
    • Texture based on particle attributes or particle UV
    • Tension and relaxation filters
    • Camera, objects and RealWave© clipping
    • Optimize curvature and camera-based
    • Particle attributes transferred to the mesh
    • Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
  • Grid mesh
    • Able to create mesh mixing a grid-based and a particle-based fluid
    • Texture, Y-planar projection, UV particle and fluid average velocity
    • Tension and relaxation filters
    • Optimized curvature and camera-based
    • Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
• Cameras
  • Import/export from/to major 3D platforms
  • Link target
• CrowdFlow plugin
  • Flocks
  • Swarms
  • "Follow the leader"
• Morph plugin
  • Improves on the built-in Magic daemon
• Filter daemon
  • Transfer particles from one emitter to another based on particle attributes
• Sheeter daemon
  • Auto-fill areas with low resolution to create thin sheets of fluid.
• External forces
  • Gravity
  • Attractor
  • Daemon spline
  • Wind
  • Vortex
  • Layered vortex
  • Limbo
  • Tractor
  • Coriolis
  • Ellipsoid
  • Drag
  • Surface tension
  • Noise
  • Heater
  • Magic
  • Object
  • SDK built forces
• Initial state
• Simulation passes
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Bodies dynamics
• Python SDK
  • Commands
  • Batch
  • Simulation Events
  • Forces
  • Particle solvers
  • Waves
  • Version 2.6.2
• C++ SDK
  • Commands
  • Batch
  • Simulation Events
  • Forces
  • Particle solvers
  • Waves
  • Job managers
• Customizable GUI
  • Tree layout
  • UI dark and light color scheme
  • Commands tool bars
  • Change predefined layouts by using keyboard shortcuts
• Computation distributed over a network
  • IDOC (Independent Domain of Computation) nodes
  • Send jobs by using an open plug-in architecture
  • Job manager built-in panel to browse the jobs status
  • Browse the job status using a standard internet browser
• On-line help system
  • Global search
  • Parameter context help
  • Node context help
• Scene import/export as XML format
• Textures
  • Displacement maps
  • Wet/dry
  • Texture based parameters (interaction maps)
  • UV Mapping
    • UV from particle
    • UV sprite
    • Speed
    • Pressure
    • Temperature
    • Fluid average velocity
• Preview
  • One-click generation of a preview video/sequence of files
• Movie player
  • tga, bmp, jpg and png sequences
  • Write out avi files
  • Real time play
• Curve and expressions editor
  • TCB, bezier, linear and stepped curves
  • Pre- and post- curve behavior
  • Tangent tools (break, unify and flat)
  • Copy/paste control points
  • Multi-curve editing
  • Save/load curves to/from crv and xml formats
• Snap tools
• Align tools
• Import MXS (Maxwell Render) format
• Predefined or user defined OpenGL shaders
• Multi-platform
  • Linux
  • Windows
  • MacOS
• 32/64bits
• Multi-threaded

RenderKit Features

• RFRK_Mesher: Generates fluid surface meshes from RealFlow particles.
  • Core/Splash filter
  • Boolean operations including merging with RealWave surface
  • Motion blur
  • Particle attributes transferred to the mesh
  • Low memory consumption
  • Multi-threaded
  • Tension and relaxation filters
  • Optimization
  • Clipping
  • Smoothing
• RFRK_Particler: Generates different geometry primitives from RealFlow particles.
  • Spheres, cubes, sprites and points
  • Multipoint, including control over shape of multipoint cloud
  • Core/Splash filter
  • Size based on camera and particle attributes
  • Motion blur
  • Geometry rendered on demand (mentalray only)
  • Animation curves to control particle size according to magnitudes
• RFRK_Cloud: a tool for rendering volumetric data
  • Uses BIN and MTC RealFlow standard file formats for particles and mist
  • Anisotropy and light controls
• RFRK_Displacement: a tool for rendering full 3D displacement maps
• Available for mental ray, RenderMan and Maxwell Render

RealFlow Job Manager Features

• Monitoring through a web browser
• Send jobs from RealFlow GUI
• Auto-detection of job nodes
• Jobs persistence
• Multi-platform, Linux, Windows and MacOS

 

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 Version / Release Updates

RealFlow Render Kit v2.5

The RealFlow Renderkit (RFRK) is a toolkit which makes rendering RealFlow scenes faster and easier

• C++ SDK so you can create your own connectivity plug-ins
• One license type compatible with all render engines

• Generates procedural geometry at rendertime
• Enhancements to the viewport: This allows users to use the RenderKit with any renderer
• RFRK Mesher visualization in the 3d viewport for Maya, 3DSMax, Houdini and Cinima4D: Users can now fine-tune their meshes with a visual clue in the viewport, without having to hit render to see the final result
• New method to compute mesh normals to reduce flickering issues:  Smoother results for slow and viscous fluids
• Support for RenderMan volumetric primitives and RMS3.0 particler + BlobbyVolume rendertype primitive:  The original implementation of RFRK Cloud in RMS has been replaced using RenderMan volumetric primitives, which include motion blur
• RFRK Cloud in Mental Ray now with 3D Texture coordinates:  Users can now add an extra level of detail to the RFRK Cloud in Mental Ray
• Ability to set environment variables in the sequence paths:  Moving RFRK files around in different OS systems is now easier than ever
• Reduces storage and memory use
• Bypasses 3D platform restrictions for faster, easier rendering

Compatibility

• Autodesk Maya (from 2009 to 2012)
• Autodesk 3ds Max (from 2009 to 2012)
• Autodesk Softimage (from 7.5 to 2012)
• RFRK plugin for Cinema 4D:  Cinem4D users will now be able to enjoy RFRK as part of their RF workflow/pipeline
• Side Effects Houdini (latest production builds for H10 and H11)
• Available for Mac, Windows 64, Linux 64

RFRK v2.5 is a free upgrade to all RealFlow users.  To download, log in to your Next Limit Customer Gateway account online. You receive one free RFRK license with every standard RealFlow license purchased. Additional licenses are also available for purchase.

 

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RealFlow 2012 Full Feature List PDF

 

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Videos

The RealFlow Pipeline Explained from Gus S. Perez on Vimeo.