fluid

[jacksc02]

mik, i think dimos solution is limited to what you can set up in PFLOW. Correct me if im wrong Dieter.

[dimo]

Hi,
I wrote new PFlow node that connects to the Ageia fluids. The Ageia fluids are pretty cool. You can check the videos at the ageia home page.
http://www.ageia.com/developers/index.html

or here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bjGVcjMMJA
I think that the PFlow Toolbox 2 will support that, too.

I bought a card yesterday. I have realtime fluids in 3dsmax now . Only bad thing is that there's a particle count limit of 32k particles. I hoped that this limit was only for software mode, but it's also limited in hardware mode.
Perhaps I can find a workaround for this.


Best regards,
Dieter

[Paul Oblomov]

Dimo, do you know if a pflow is multicore optimized ? Don't want to buy anything like ageia...

[dimo]

Hi,

PFlow is not multithreaded yet. But I heard rumours that this is in the works.

Dieter

[jacksc02]

along with max being fully multi-threaded!
Yeah right..........

[joconnell]

The multi thread option will likely appear in one of the orbaz boxes - oleg is still doing a lot of stuff with pflow outside of autodesk - he's added in a lot of updates that replace pflow code when you install box 1 and 3. It's a shame that autodesk didn't keep him on, pflow could be great.

[dimo]

I did another test...


animaton

Sorry, the encoder messed up the gamma. I hope I can find some time to fix that.

Best regards,
Dieter

[jacksc02]

very cool dimo!
what are the frame times like?

[dimo]

simulation or rendering?

[dimo]

sorry stupid question too late here...

rendering time per frame for the small resolution was about 8 min on my rather outdated workstation.
Simulation time for the whole sequence was less than one cup of coffee. I think about 7 mins. But this was with 128 substeps per frame.

Best regards,

Dieter

[jacksc02]

looking promising Dimo.
If you need a tester let me know, I got a couple of projects coming up that could be a good test situation for this.

[jonnybefree]

agree, looks really promising!!
maybe the future killing max integrated fluid engine

[dimo]

At least, it seems GPU hardware seems the way to go. Just saw this:


http://us.download.nvidia.com/downlo...m_Smokebox.wmv


Dieter

[dbuchhofer]

looking great Dieter! thats an impressive amount of work for fluids! looked into getting into that a couple years ago More power to you, and keep it up!

[pixelstudio]

wow, thats realtime isn't it. hmm that would take hours to render hehe