Looks like I’m going to need to do some water. Stooch. . . how well does realflow work? I remember your explosion of water a little while back. How did that turn out? Anything I should be aware of? Are there any alternatives? I saw Blenders tests but the quality seemed to not be anywhere near Realflow. Am I looking in the wrong place?
RealFlow?
AAAron
#2
Will you be using 3.0 or 4.0? I´m only familiar with the 3.0 interface and as I understood it they changed it quite a bit. Otherwise I got some tips.
AAAron
#4
Yes, I think so. They overhauled the interface quite a bit, but I haven´t tried it. Anyway if you want to get into the interface real quick I really recomend digitaltutors realflow introduction, mainy becasuse you get the basics very quick, and then it´s much easier to test stuff and play around.
Nichod
#6
Wegg- depending on the resolution and detail you need for your realflow simulation, the latest 3d world mag has a realflow SE. It allows something like 40k particles, so it depends on how complex you need it. Saves and exports just like the standard realflow.
IRONIC3D
#7
Hey Wegg
We use RealFlow all the time here, and it’s great, allot of bitching and yelling during the process but at the end “when it’s done” it’s really great. it gets crazy the first you try it, but once you understand the workflow the guess work is gone. my advice to you is to take it slowly and don’t crank things up, higher resolution output isn’t solution most of the time, be logical and try to understand what you want to do. RealFlow is a great starting point, but you have to experiment on your own further, you want to try an effect or a tool, test it by it self and not part of the larger longer to process scene, this way you’ll get faster results.
As for which version, 4 is significantly faster than 3, plus it has better and faster solutions for day to day work, even unconventional, for instance we used it to make ribbons instead of using syflex 
yeah I know crazy, but it was supposed to transform into scent at some point. Anyway, if you can get your hand on RF4 that would be great. if not, 3 can do the trick as well.
Cheers
I3D
pnoland
#8
Blender’s fluid simulation is actually not too shabby. I’ve been tinkering with it a bit and I find it very easy to use and it seems the quality all depends on how patient you to wait for it to bake the animation at a higher resolution. Each frame is saved as obj files too I believe so you can easily import them into Messiah to animate and render out. There was an insanely cool video that I saw before from the developer of that area of Blender but I gotta find it again…Nichod, I think you’d probably know of some good render examples of the quality. If you aren’t scared of the Blender interface it’s at least worth looking into to see if you need to drop the cash on RealFlow or not.
Nichod
#9
I will say the fluid sims are EAASY to use. And you get great results.
Here is a very simple demo of the some of the new technology that will be coming in a new release soon. http://www10.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sinithue/ani_mfc/
A commercial that used Blender fluids: http://www.blendernation.com/2006/09/26/brasilian-tv-commercial-made-with-blender/
And a demo showing how to use the fluids and some nice animation examples:
http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/blender.org/siggraph/Demo-Fluids.mov
stooch
#10
sorry for the long delay in response im really busy in LA at the moment, in the process of moving from east coast to west heh…
anyway, water in realflow is great, it takes alot of patience thats for sure, ALOT of crashing and angry screaming are sure to ensue. I actually have alot of new realflow stuff in my new reel, ill upload it when i get home. But yeah, messiah handles liquid meshes pretty well, aside from some crashing bugs that i mentioned in the bug tracker. At the moment RF even in its rough state is probably the best liquid sim on the market (flowline is another one but its not available to public AFAIK)
Pay special attention to the BIN loaders in RF, it saves you ALOT of time. TLHPRO is a must have of course…
stooch
#11
hey, my new reel is up on my site! the intro is made with realflow and rendered in messiah. so check it out…
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