Next Limit has announced RealFlow 2013 and posted loads of sample videos created using the latest version of its industry-standard fluid simulator. Check them out now…

Madrid-based Next Limit has just announced the latest version of its industry-standard fluid simulator, RealFlow 2013.

You may have seen some of the new features in our RealFlow 2013 sneak peek earlier this year, but Next Limit has posted up a load more preview videos for you to check out.

• Watch the 12 preview videos via the Next Limit site

What’s coming up in RealFlow 2013?

• Hybrido 2
• New base solver for improved detail
• New Splash and Foam emitters handled quickly

• RealFlow Graph
• New, visual node-based method to set up links between scene elements
• Create RealFlow Simulation Graphs wherever and whenever during the simulation so you can create/modify/extract data from scene elements

• RenderKit 3.0
• Improved mesher algorithm for Hybrido 2 for greater detail
• New Anisotropic Mesher for particle-based sims

• Alembic I/O
• Alembic format will be available for both geometry and particles

• Caronte Body Dynamics Solver
• Faster and more robust
• Improved fracturing tools

• Viewport+
• Enhanced workflow, even when working with millions of particles
• Orbit massive amounts of data

• Maxwell Render
• Preview your simulation renders in the background with Maxwell Render
• Photorealistic Maxwell Render materials provided

The software is being previewed at the FMX conference this week.

The pricing and release date have not been specified yet.

Next Limit has also recently announced RealFlow product packs for freelancers and studios with discounts of 15 per cent and above.

For more information visit the RealFlow website

Next Limit’s Luis Miguel Mora has posted five preview videos showing the upcoming version of its fluid dynamics software at work

RealFlow 2013 – due out later this year – will be released with new fluid dynamics software: Hybrido 2.

This solver has been created from scratch in order to replace the current one.

The videos show Hybrido 2 in action and, as you can see, it’s quite fast and results in realistic fluid simulations.

“Finally I was allowed to share with you some simulations that I did with the new Hybrido solver, to be released within RealFlow 2013,” Mora’s says on his blog.

“For those of you interested, the new solver is an implicit solver, as opposite to the current one which is an explicit solver. Implicit solver means that just only a few simulation steps per frame are needed, and this means, of course, faster simulations. It means also that “bounciness” is totally removed. The current solver needs many many simulation steps if you want to remove ‘bounciness’, and even doing it you can’t remove it completely.”

Massive Fluid

Car Skidding

Shark

Dancer

Wheel HYBRIDO2

Read Luis Miguel Mora’s blog post

You may also be interested to know that issue 152 of 3D World magazine, on sale now at My Favourite Magazines, contains RealFlow 2012 tips from effects expert Florian Koebisch.