Release Notes 3.0.0.0020

Release date: April, 2nd 2019

Please take a close look at RealFlow | Cinema 4D's list of limitations and known bugs. It is a valuable resource when you encounter problems, crashes, or difficulties:

System requirements

• Cinema 4D R15, R16, R17, R18, R19 or R20 (64 bit only)
• Windows 7 (or higher) or macOS 10.9 (or higher) operating system.
• CPU 64-bit Intel® or AMD® multi-core 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.
  
  

Features added

Daemons

• RFCFD-634 - New daemon that allows for the creation of the fluid effect typically seen at Hi-speed macro photography.
• RFCFD-669 - Force scale for daemons.
• RFCFD-682 - New curvature-cohesion model added to surface tension daemon.

Meshing

• RFCFD-668 - Mesher can be clipped using Cinema R20 fields.
• RFCFD-630 - Quads can be used, instead of triangles, for meshing.

General

• RFCFD-673 - Stitcher for Alembic files.
• RFCFD-666 - Sub-frame interpolation, to sample properly creation of particles and daemon forces between frames.

Fluid

• RFCFD-670 - Translation/Rotation/Scale transformations for fluids.
• RFCFD-678 - Thinking Particles and geometry instances can be scaled using particles speed, age and vorticity.

Caching

• RFCFD-632 - New menu buttons for quick access to "Cache Simulation", "Cache Meshes" and toggle "Use cache" on/off.

Improvements

General

• RFCFD-651 - New Node "Spline Control Circle" to increase flexibility to define forces in "Spline Daemon" and particle emission in "Spline Emitter".

Caching

• RFCFD-622 - Possibility to enable/disable disk write per node in the Cache parameters tab.
• RFCFD-560 - New "Cache filename" parameter for domain and mesh nodes, to specify the filename prefix that will be used as output.
• RFCFD-533 - When a caching process is about to be launched, check node names in the scene to warn the user about possible name conflicts.

Licensing

• RFCFD-679 - License file can be installed with License Dialog.

Limitations

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.

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 version 2.0 and higher.

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.

Limitations fixed

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.

Fixed bugs

Instances

• RFCFD-667 - Instances should be created in the same place where the particles are regardless the scene transformation.

Meshing

• RFCFD-680 - Sometimes the number of mesh channels are less than the number of fluids to mix.

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.

Known bugs

Emitters

• RFCFD-522 - Emitter ID value is not preserved on scene reopening.

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.