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RealFlow | Cinema 4D Release Notes
2.5.2.0066 BETA
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1.- System requirements
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* Cinema 4D R15, R16, R17, R18 or R19 (64 bit only)
* Windows 7 (or higher) or OS X 10.9 (or higher) operation systems Intel® or comparable main processor.
* 8 GB RAM.
* 100 MB disk space for installation.
* Network adapter and internet access for license activation.
* RealFlow | Cinema 4D supports GPU-based simulations and multi-core/multi-processor systems.
Note:
Since fluid simulations are computationally expensive and allocate large amounts of disk space we recommend Intel® i7 or Xeon systems (or comparable), 16 GB RAM (or more) and a 512 GB hard disk drive/SDD.
2.- Features added
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Daemons
RFCFD-572 - New node "Visualizer". Daemon vector fields can be visualized.
Fluid
RFCFD-568 - Age and vorticity property can be used to color particles in the viewport.
General
RFCFD-596 - Compatibility with the TurbulenceFD Emitter tag to use RealFlow particles for TurbulenceFD emission. Make sure to update TurbulenceFD to version v1.0 Rev 1435 or higher.
Meshing/Rendering
RFCFD-566 - New vertex maps, "Age" and "Vorticity", for meshes.
RFCFD-557 - New vertex maps "Weights" to mix fluids.
3.- Improvements
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Daemons
RFCFD-601 - Falloff for DSpline.
Emitters
RFCFD-574 - New viewport handle to control the Volume parameter of the basic emitters.
RFCFD-573 - Image Emitter displays the texture in the viewport.
General
RFCFD-583 - New "Texture Sampling Resolution" parameter in RealFlow preferences.
RFCFD-554 - New global cache "Offset" parameter in Scene node.
RFCFD-603 - New cache "Offset" parameter in Fluid, Rigid, Elastic and Mesher nodes.
Licensing
RFCFD-575 - Current license information is displayed in the License dialog.
RFCFD-585 - Possibility to set the RFC4D_LICENSE_PATH environment variable to use a custom search path for license files.
Meshing
RFCFD-586 - Possibility to use gradients to customize the Mesher vertex map value transitions.
RFCFD-597 - New "Auto Mesh Normals" parameter for the Mesher to switch between the mesher normals (accurate) or geometry normals (customizable).
RFCFD-608 - When a Vertex Map is selected in a Mesher node, its values are represented as a gradient in the viewport.
Thinking Particles
RFCFD-600 - Fluids now accept a Thinking Particles group as a parameter to decide which TP group particles should be synchronized. This replaces the old "Create Thinking Particles" checkbox.
4.- Limitations
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General
RFCFD-351 - Array Tool: Parameters can't be animated for meshes.
RFCFD-517 - Initial State files created in RealFlow | Cinema 4D 1.0 are not compatible with 2.0 version due to the switch from RPC to Alembic.
Emitters
RFCFD-356 - When using a multi-segment spline with the spline emitter node the "Prev" and "Next" buttons only iterate through the control points on the current segment.
Meshing
RFCFD-580 - Mesh fluid/emitter weight vertex map computation is limited to a maximum amount of 10.
Parameters
RFCFD-358 - File paths can't have unicode characters on Mac OS X.
RFCFD-519 - Simulation steps configuration from RealFlow | Cinema 4D 1.0 scenes is reset to Auto mode when opened in 2.0 version.
Rendering
RFCFD-469 - Simulation look on render may differ between multiple simulation/renders unless caching is enabled.
RFCFD-486 - Objects deformed with Rigid, Elastic and Particle Skinner only support motion blur when using the Point Cache tag.
RFCFD-499 - Particle render instances are not rendered/recognized by NVIDIA's Iray.
RFCFD-500 - Motion blur with meshes doesn't work with NVIDIA's Iray.
RFCFD-501 - Motion blur with meshes doesn't work with Maxwell Render.
RFCFD-530 - Particle render instances original objects remain visible during render.
5.- Limitations fixed
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6.- Fixed bugs
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General
RFCFD-553 - Playback frame and state should be preserved after caching Simulation or Meshes.
RFCFD-606 - RealFlow nodes bounding box is sometimes displayed in a position different than its actual location.
Fluid
RFCFD-569 - Keyframes on parameters under Solver tab in Scene node are ignored.
RFCFD-567 - Min and Max Ranges, inside Display tab, aren't updated when Automatic Range is on.
RFCFD-565 - GPU simulations with three or more linked fluids may crash or freeze Cinema 4D.
RFCFD-562 - An initial state can't be saved if a "Magic" daemon is present
Emitters
RFCFD-571 - Animated textures for Image Emitters are always evaluated at initial frame.
RFCFD-559 - With some geometries, like "Platonic" object, the implicit surfaces are always rebuilt even if they haven't been modified.
RFCFD-558 - Fill Emitter isn't notified about the changes done in a Volume Tag.
RFCFD-546 - Spline emitter does not allow dragging Fluids to its links parameter.
Daemons
RFCFD-563 - "Attractor" daemon isn't connected properly when a scene file is loaded.
RFCFD-556 - "Filter Inside" parameter of "Filter" daemon does not work as expected.
RFCFD-598 - Filter daemon allows more than one fluid as target.
RFCFD-602 - DSpline daemon leaks memory after a long time running.
Meshing
RFCFD-570 - During rendering, sometimes, the Mesher doesn't update the geometry in consecutive frames.
RFCFD-581 - Particle texture coordinates are not being taken into account to compute the mesh UVs.
RFCFD-584 - Sometimes vertex maps show flickering due to interpolation.
RFCFD-605 - Geometry is not cleared when the meshed fluid has no particles.
Caching
RFCFD-564 - "Remove Scene Cache Files" also removes initial state files.
Rendering
RFCFD-570 - During rendering, sometimes, the Mesher doesn't update the geometry in consecutive frames.
WetMaps
RFCFD-582 - It is possible to use negative values for wetmaps resolution.
Cinema 4D UI
RFCFD-594 - Sphere emitter viewport representation when scale is non uniform is distorted instead of a perfect sphere.
Thinking Particles
RFCFD-539 - Crash if a Thinking Particles group of a fluid is removed manually.
RFCFD-435 - Crash after removing a TP group being meshed.
7.- Known bugs
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Emitters
RFCFD-522 - Emitter ID value is not preserved on scene reopening.
Splines
RFCFD-354 - If a segment is removed the configuration of the circles of the other segments is reset.
RFCFD-353 - Undo/Redo is not working when a control point is added.
Daemons
RFCFD-551 - Having two or more k Isolated daemons linked to the same fluid makes the isolation value grow as many times as the number of k Isolated linked daemons.