An animation for the lava contest made three Months ago during the Glu3d internal beta testing phase. Glu3d has become fairly stable and feature complete for the initial release (unlike the way it was when we made this animation) and Beta Testing is now open to the public. Feel free to join in at www.3daliens.com.
Here is the final rendered Animation, all rendered from within Max5 with Vray (notice the motion blur)
Wow, I just encountered your public beta - another way to spend my time *hehe*
Amazing behavior of liquids and much easier to set up than realflow.
Your animation is insane! Congrats!
@DaForce: I was actually planning on turning this into a tutorial and posting it at our website. I´d even post the scene here but since it was made with a very early beta it won´t load into the current version of glu3d anymore (according to Santiago Redondo, the main glu3d developer). Stay tuned for the tutorial.
@Pater: Yes eagle eye, the glow helps a lot I don´t exactly know what you mean by “burning heat”, but one could make burn marks on the concrete with the new wetmaps feature glu3d has now (wasn´t present back then). I wanted to do particle based heat distortion but I wouldn´t have met the deadline then, so I left it out.
@themaxxer: I just made the liquid as thick as I could (which was a value of around 100) with the current build at that time, friction was a common value to all objects (no per object friction in glu3d back then) and was relatively low, I think almost zero. I don´t know how the current build of glu3d behaves in terms of friction parameters, but I currently don´t know anything about a bug that resets this parameter. I must admit I was too busy and therefore haven´t tried the last two builds yet, but I will check. Please post any bugs (and steps to reproduce it if possible) you find at the glu3d forum in case you have the time.
@zeromancer1972: It´s in fact not “our” public beta, its glu3d´s. We are just very active beta testers for the last couple of months , along with mainly two or three other independant guys. Since two weeks the glu3d forum is now much more crowded due to open beta status.
But it’s just a test and it’s perfect like this.