[christianz]

After nearly 4 years Realflow gets a significant upgrade with new functionality and architecture. Especially the new grid-based solver with the automatic creation of spray, mist and foam textures might change the way how people will use RF.

From Nextlimit:

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RealFlow 5 represents another huge leap forward in simulation software. The latest version includes an enormous number of fantastic brand-new features and improvements, such as:

• Hybrido, the revolutionary new hybrid technology, which makes RealFlow 5 the only product on the market which enables the user to simulate large bodies of water with sophisticated secondary effects, like splashes, foam and mist
• Caronte, a cutting-edge body dynamics solver, which offers unmatched capabilities for large-scale, complex simulations
• A highly accelerated particle-based solver, which means that simulations with standard fluids are now up to 20 times faster
• New IDOCs and the new Job Manager, which enable you to spread scenes across several computers for simulation
• Each standard license of RealFlow 5 now comes with a free copy of the RealFlow Renderkit v2 for mental ray or Renderman (Windows/Linux only)
• And much, much more! To find out all the latest features and improvements, please see our website: http://www.realflow....rf_features.php

If you are a RealFlow 4 license holder and would like to upgrade your license or try out a demo, please log in to the customer gateway: https://portal.nextlimit.com/.

If you hold an earlier version of RealFlow, then please contact us for more information: http://www.nextlimit...ntact_sales.php

If you are a new customer, we will shortly be announcing the public launch on the RealFlow 5 website: www.realflow.com, at which point you will be able to try a demo of RealFlow 5 and purchase licenses.

[SFX]

Looks impressive, did you beta test it ? Have you any results to show ?

[christianz]

No I did not beta test the program. I am testing an early version of the Cinema4D plugin currently (which is not yet ready at the moment).
Now, I have to see, how my older project files perform in the new environment. Had already two crashes B)/>

[christianz]

Demo is available now
http://realflow.com/rf_try.php

[christianz]

If you have not downloaded the patches from the NextLimit website recently, I just wanted to mention that there were already several updates of RF5 since its introduction. We are now at 5.0.3.
http://www.realflow...._5_0_3_0190.pdf

What is also developing quite nicely is the new market of C++ plugins for RF itself (not the 3D applications).
For example from this Italian shop:
http://www.informati...art.it/plugins/
and from Iosim (some of his plugins are shiped with RF5):
http://www.iosim.dk/