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QF-TAGS: View, Single View, Quad Grid, Viewport Navigation Mouse Panning Zooming Rotating View, Front View, Side View, Perspective View, Scene Camera Caption, Time Code Caption, Simulation Time Caption, FrameBy default, RealFlow opens with a “Single View”. This window shows a perspective view of the simulation space. The “Quad View” provides a split screen separated into four windows, showing a “Top View”, “Front View”, “Side View” and “Perspective View”. A fifth alternative is called “SceneCamera View” (shortcut: 5) and is only available with an imported camera or one of RealFlow’s cameras. You can easily toggle between 2D and 3D views either with the number keys (1-4) or the appropriate entry from the “View” menu. It is also possible to choose from different shading modes and display various information about the nodes, e.g. the amount of grid cells.

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The viewports are fully controllable with combinations of keys and mouse movements. RealFlow’s viewports support OpenGL, a fast method to display, draw and shade objects. The 3D modes (“Perspective View” and “SceneCamera View”) have three degrees of freedom for changing the point of view: Panning, zooming and rotating. The 2D views (“Top”, “Front”, “Side”) are restricted to panning and zooming.

 

 

RealFlow's mouse control possibilities.

 

Updating the viewports is a very CPU intensive task and may take up to 30% of your processor’s capacity with slower graphic cards. Especially when you have large scenes with large particle amounts the simulation process might slow down tremendously. For these cases there are simple, yet effective methods to save CPU power:

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