The technology developed by Next Limit for the simulation of fluids, water surfaces, rigid bodies, soft bodies, fibers, and meshes is groundbreaking in that it is particle based. The elements of the simulation use physical properties to control their behavior and can interact with each other and recat according to impulses, forces and accelerations.

RealFlow is a stand-alone application, fully working in 32 and 64 bits, it works on various OS, it is OpenGL compliant that works with 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave, XSI, Cinema 4D and Houdini. Due to RealFlow's Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) engine and its propagation rigid body solver, any kind of effect is possible, from a tornado that breaks a roof apart, to a flood, to a river with flowers floating on it, to a rainstorm; anything you can imagine! Special features include a wet map generator to create surface wetting effects and the inclusion of a camera into the simulation.

RealFlow has been used for the production of spectacular effects in numerous major movies. These include Poseidon, X-Men 3 (The last stand), Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Ice Age 2 (The Meadletwon) to name but a few. It has also been used to produce effects for countless commercials and television products worldwide.

Working in conjunction with the most popular 3D platforms, its core consists of an extremely realistic, physically based continuous-particle system and a new stacking rigid body solver. A team of physicists and dynamics engineers have been working on RealFlow for 8 years to bring this groundbreaking technology to the world of CG.

How RealFlow licensing works:
RealFlow is licensed by CPU. A standard license will use up to two real CPU. We use the terms CPU and cores interchangeably (i.e. 2CPU is the same as 2 cores). Therefore, if you have a quad core machine, you would probably want to buy a 4CPU license to take advantage of all the cores. A dual quad core machine user would probably prefer an 8CPU license, and so on.

Networking and Command Line Licenses:
RealFlow does not calculate in a network (i.e. you can’t send one scene to calculate across various machines.) However, RF does have command lines. Command Line versions (CMD) do not have an interface. This means that you can run your standard version of RealFlow4 on one computer, and use command line licenses to launch different simulations on other computers. You can set different parameters and test the results of your animation on as many computers as you wish. Due to their lack of interface, CMD versions are also up to 30% faster than standard versions. Command Lines are sold in packs of 5.

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