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#HOW TO USE REALFLOW IN CINEMA 4D FULL#
#HOW TO USE REALFLOW IN CINEMA 4D TRIAL#

This article originally appeared in 3D World magazine issue 266.

#HOW TO USE REALFLOW IN CINEMA 4D FULL#

It’s steep for new buyers, and owners of version 1.0 don’t get much of a discount either (it’s €420 plus taxes at the time of writing).īut at half the price of the full RealFlow, while not exactly a bargain, it’s still a very useful addition to Cinema 4D’s growing armoury. In terms of functionality, this new version of RealFlow | Cinema 4D is leagues ahead of the original, and the only barrier to entry is pricing. Hopefully, future versions will solve some of these issues. Josh Clos, the winner of the RealFlow / Cinema 4D Fluid Dimension Challenge in December 2014, takes us step-by-step in the creation of his winning RealFlow fluid sim. So while you can create some amazing simulations, it takes time and patience to get anything meaningful out the other end. The granular simulations are great, but limited by C4D’s ability to handle tens (or preferably hundreds) of thousands of objects.

Object deformation with Particle Skinner.

Multiple fluid interactions Force daemons use native C4D falloffs.

New viscous, viscoelastic and granular materials.

You’re often forced to do a preview render straight to screen to see the mesh – or cache the whole simulation. In use we only came across a few hurdles, one of which is the Mesher’s occasional habit of not Auto-Building meshes on playback, when you’re just previewing your sim or don’t want to spend time caching it.Īlso, sometimes meshes don’t render to the Picture Viewer, despite having cached the particles. This sequence shows how you can use the particle system in collision with a surface to deform an otherwise solid object However the meshing phase is what actually makes the particles look liquid. Particles simulation is responsible to all 3D liquid’s behaviour. You can check out his YouTube channel for more awesome videos. There are a lot of learning materials available from Next Limit’s website to get you up to speed, but we wish there were some demo scenes to show off the features and take apart. Sam is a frequent content creator, not only for Realflow, but for Cinema 4D in general.

But once you get your head round the options and learn the correct workflow, the plug-in is capable of producing excellent results, relatively quickly, depending on your system.

#HOW TO USE REALFLOW IN CINEMA 4D TRIAL#

It can be frustrating at times, and takes a lot of trial and error to get the result you’re after. Certainly, at first, you can find yourself endlessly tweaking values, trying to balance speed, resolution, time steps, cell size, w mesh density etc, to get the fluids acting correctly and your meshes looking good. The biggest issue with RealFlow | Cinema 4D is really learning the multitude of controls and variables, and knowing which to use to make sure your simulation looks the way you want it to. It’s absolutely ideal for soft body-style effects, but with the control that different fluids systems provide, add a granular system and the results can be wonderfully unique. You fill a mesh body with particles, and the Skinner distorts the mesh according to the simulation. The inclusion of the Particle Skinner daemon is a pleasant surprise.