Learning RealFlow

Get up and running with RealFlow, the motion picture industry's standard tool for liquid simulations.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Familiar with RealFlow

• Understanding the RealFlow pipeline
• Analyzing the demo scenes
• Setting preferences
• Creating and setting up RealFlow projects
• Browsing the interface
• Selecting and transforming objects
• Navigating in views
• Layout views and panels
• Choosing shading modes

2. Particle Simulation

• Importing a 3D scene
• Creating an emitter
• Adding a gravity daemon
• Controlling particle parameters
• Colliding particles with geometry
• Killing particles with k Volume
• Simulating surface tension
• Setting an initial state
• Keyframing node parameters
• Adjusting animation in the Curve Editor
• Fine-tuning a particle simulation
• Building a particle mesh
• Adjusting mesh parameters

3. Hybrido Simulation

• Setting the scene
• Creating a Hybrido domain
• Emitting fluid from an object
• Controlling cell size
• Choosing domain display options
• Adding a foam emitter
• Building a HyMesh

4. RealWave with Caronte Rigid-Body Simulation

• Creating a RealWave surface
• Adding modifiers
• Making an active rigid body
• Setting center of gravity
• Choosing Export Central cache outputs
• Adding crest splash
• Killing particles with k Age
• Adding object splash

5. Interoperability with 3D Applications

• Exporting and importing
• Using the Alembic format
• Linking to Realflow cache files
• Meshing at render time with RenderKit
• Rendering with mental ray

Conclusion

• Goodbye