Château BACCARAT // PhoenixFD Force on PF rendered with Krakatoa

[ghiom3d]

hello,

this is my last job and i have used phoenix FD to apply very naturals and beautifull move on my particles flow .
It's rendered with Krakatoa. This is my first attempt with Krakatoa.

look here at full screen HD for better experience :

https://vimeo.com/38839628






let me know what is your feeling to help me to improve my art

best regards !

[Ivaylo Katev]

good job, how many particles?

[ghiom3d]

i haven't take a look at how many particles are computed with Krakatoa.
In particles flow i begin with 2x 2 000 000 particles wich spawns themself 200x times per frames and a long life time.
Then i use krakatoa 10x partitionning .

So ....
a lot too many so much particles or something like that

The thing that i really love with phoenix FD in this job is that we can compute a very basic low precision grid with only thousands particles generated to apply a fine detailled force to the PF particles system .
What i dislike is that the PhoenixFD forces PF system is so slow that it's make the work hard .
it's seems to be a Particles flow issue, but can you do something to make your particles flow PhoenixFD operator faster in particlesflow?

And i need your advice. is it better and faster to go to thinking particles or keeping Particles Flow and adding Box 2 and 3 is enough ?

[Ivaylo Katev]

it's seems to be a Particles flow issue, but can you do something to make your particles flow PhoenixFD operator faster in particlesflow?

phoenix has its own particles that run much faster compared to the PF setup, but they still can't be directly transferred into a PF event. they can be used if you need just particles moved along the fluid, but as i see in your case this is not satisfied.
perhaps we will add a pf birth operator, that converts the particles in a phoenix simulator into a pf particles

[ghiom3d]

it's could be great this PF birth operator.
I have other jobs where i need to drive particles with Key frames and/or Path Spline and having fluid forces on them to make secondary motions.
I have try to make a drived particles flow as emitter for phoenixFD, but it's not so much interesting if you just want to make a water flow dancing around something or following a path .