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Mesher

Maxwell can generate meshes from Realflow BIN particle files at render time, removing the need for saving potentially large mesh files to disk and loading them inside Max. This feature is exposed through the Realflow RenderKit Mesher node, which can be created from the Maxwell category in the Create->Geometry rollup by pressing the MxMesher button. In order to render meshes, you need to add a new sequence to the MxMesher by pressing the Add button. You can pick any file in the particle sequence when prompted and the plug-in will automatically take care about replacing the frame number in the file name with the current frame. It is possible to add multiple sequences to be meshed together in the same object by using the Add button. You can also remove a sequence by clicking the Remove button while a sequence is selected in the particle sequence list. The node uses the current frame for determining the name of the files to load.

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The functioning and parameters of the mesher are described in detail in this section of the main Maxwell manual

Particles

Realflow particle sequences can be rendered in Maxwell as procedural spheres using the Realflow RenderKit Particles node. To create this node use the MxParticler button in the Create->Geometry rollout. After creating a particler node, you need to select a particle file and, similarly to the mesher node, you can pick any file in the sequence and have the plug-in resolve the correct file name on export. The particles are displayed as points in the viewport and there's a level of detail control in the main attributes group.

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Maxwell can also render Max particle systems directly, without going through external files. See this page for details.

BIN Mesh Loader

BIN mesh files generated by Realflow can be referenced inside the scene by using the BIN mesh loader. This way you can skip loading the mesh data inside Max itself (which can use a lot of memory and slow down the viewport) and you can render such meshes in Maxwell without requiring the Realflow plug-in to be installed. Maxwell will load the mesh itself at render time from the referenced BIN file. To create a BIN mesh reference, click the BIN Mesh button in the Maxwell category in the Create->Geometry rollout.

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