the best liquid / smoke dynamics simulation software on market?

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Hello all,

the topic pretty much says it all.

would like to know your experience and recommendations.

thank you very much

best regards

[Neilg]

From what i've heard, the top end is frantic's 'flood' for liquids and fume for smoke.

http://www.franticfilms.com/software...lood/overview/
http://www.afterworks.com/FumeFX.asp

I have not had chance to play with either yet

[instinct]

Flood is still not publically available sadly. There is Realflow with wich i had mixed experiences in the past. Fume for smoke/fire is a blast tho!

Regards,
Thorsten

[richard_rosenman]

We use Fume for all our fire & smoke effects now and, in my opinion, nothing beats it. I'll be posting a new job soon with lots of Fume stuff so I'll let you know when I do.

-Richard

[^Lele^]

Flood is pretty nice a set of tools, and works marvels with VRay too, but it's an internal product.
You could - not - see some water I rendered with VRay in W, of Oliver Stone. So good, that after comping I couldn't tell the difference.

Fume's also used and abused over here, as it allows for very nice results in a small amount of time.
And it allows for fire, smoke and so on, and can be mixed with pFlow, Krakatoa and so on.

For someone without a LOT of computing power, i'd suggest fume all the way.
Don't try making an ocean with it though

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

thank you for the tips guys