Heya, I´ve made a nice discovery named metaballs. How can I connect them to my particles to make them appear during rendering? Any help would be nice!

That’s the method used by RealFlow RenderKit (RFRK), I just checked in the documentation (they use “Relax” and “Tension”).

Yeah, maybe it would be the best thing to just add a SOuP scatter to the surface and pipe that back to the particles with the metaballs. Not sure.

These are not implicit surfaces but polys tho, no?

The VRayMetall plugin produces an implicit surface, not polygons. Best regards, Vlado

pardon my blindness, but were do I find vray metaballs within maya? I’m currently doing a lot of water in realflow, but to have some extra elements within maya, *without* having to go back into RF would be nice. Thank you. -ctj

They are currently a part of the nightly builds. If you are interested in trying it out, please email us to vraymaya@chaosgroup.com Best regards, Vlado

Have you removed metaballs in a later build? Iḿ 99% certain I found and tried them about a month ago through the vray create menu, but now I can’t find them anymore.

They were still there last time I checked. They are only in the nightly builds though, not in the stable ones. Best regards, Vlado

having fun with the metaballs. working great, but I don’t seem to get them in RT. Still to come, or am I missing something? Thanks. -ctj

Hi, The Metaballs are not currently supported by RT, but will be added. Ivan Ivanov

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Hi,
Do you use a “nightly” nightly build, or a “stable” nightly build ?
Neither of their Release notes include Metaballs, so I don’t know if it’s available in the current “stable” nightly build.

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