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. 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.

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. The new solvers make use of OpenCL rather than CUDA, so they should work with any modern GPU. 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. 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

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