What is RealFlow?
RealFlow is a ground-breaking, state-of-the-art fluids and dynamics simulation tool, developed by Next Limit Technologies for the simulation of fluids, water surfaces, rigid bodies, soft bodies and fibres. The elements of the simulation use physical
properties to control their behavior and can interact with each
other and react according to impulses, forces and accelerations.
Working in conjunction with the most popular 3D
platforms, its core consists of an extremely realistic,
physically based continuous-particle system and a new
stacking rigid body solver. A team of physicists and
dynamics engineers have been working on RealFlow
for 8 years to bring this groundbreaking technology
to the world of CG.
The official Next Limit Scripts resources page. Exchange
scripts for free with other members of the RF4 community.
 www.nextlimit.com/nlscript
RealFlow has been used for the
production of spectacular effects in numerous major
movies. These include Poseidon,
X-Men
3 (The last stand), Charlie
and The Chocolate Factory, Lord
of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Ice
Age 2 (The Meltdown) to name but a few. It has also
been used to produce effects for countless commercials
and television products worldwide.
RealFlow is a stand-alone application,
fully working in 32 and 64 bits, it works on various
OS, it is OpenGL compliant that works with 3DStudio
MAX, Maya, LightWave, XSI, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Due to RealFlow's Computational Fluid Dynamic
(CFD) engine and its propagation rigid body solver,
any kind of effect is possible, from a tornado that
breaks a roof apart, to a flood, to a river with flowers
floating on it, to a rainstorm; anything you can imagine!
Special features include a wet map generator to create
surface wetting effects and the inclusion of a camera
into the simulation.
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