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Presets Most people, when they start playing with RealFlow, overlook the existence of presets. In this new RFLabs test, we’ll be showing you how to find presets for fluids. To do so, we’ll provide a simple scene to test several emitters with different values for parameters like density, viscosity, internal and external pressure, etc. The best way to understand how RealFlow works is by running tests with it. So, open ...

The Idea For our test  we wanted to make a challenging scene, so we went for some people working on a river near a little dam. Some thick worker decide to work directly on the dam as the other ones are doing random things (talking on the telephone or checking things). As a result, the dam breaks apart and the water floods the river bed, taking the workers on ...

The integration of Python into RF4 has been a step forward towards flexibility and has really pushed the limits of RF. That is a fact. However, we could import the deforming skin of a character in RF using .SD, and even make it interact with fluids but... how about the other way round? A dynamic ragdoll was surely a challenging task... until now! We started with a tentative attempt ...

There isn’t much information on how to render simulations from RealFlow. This is partly because they can be rendered as standard particles or polygons and that is the province of the chosen Render Engine. But today we'd like to talk a little bit about a piece of software that grabbed our attention, a nice companion for our beloved RealFlow: Krakatoa. Krakatoa is a volumetric render engine for particles made ...

The Water Wheel This time we’re going to simulate the functioning of a water wheel. We are going to attempt to simulate all the movement entirely in RealFlow. For this exercise we have provided the scene in an OBJ file that contains the most important objects in the simulation. This is an illustration of what we are going to simulate (to find out more about water mechanisms, check out ...

A water wheel is a hydraulic machine that is used to extract water or to produce a mechanical movement. It consists of a big wheel with transversal blades and is situated in water streams, which, with the help of the blades, gives a continuous movement to the wheel. A series of containers is fixed along the circumferences of the wheel, and with the movement of the wheel they ...

To simulate a volcano, you just need plenty of observation and persistence. Look for videos (the Internet is full of them), photographs, anything that can help you to understand the mechanisms of nature. In this example we tried to simulate a very liquid lava, with several magma explosions, like a Hawaiian-type volcano. The best way to start is to test with one emitter, a gravity daemon and a ...

We would like to start Labs with something challenging, so we have chosen a really amazing natural phenomena for our first experiment, one of the most spectacular manifestations of Earth’s geological activity: volcanoes. There are different types of volcanoes, created by different types of classifications, and they are distributed around certain regions of the planet like Central America or the Asian side of the Pacific Ocean. Volcanoes are the sole ...

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