Release Notes 1.1.2.0045

Owned by Alex Ribao
Last updated: 29 Oct, 2018
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Release date: October 30th, 2018

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

System requirements

  • Autodesk Maya® 2017 or Autodesk Maya® 2018 (64 bit only)
  • Windows 7 (or higher) or macOS 10.10 (or higher) operating system
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 6.5 or CentOS 6.5 and 7.2 Linux operating system. (Same requirements as Autodesk Maya)
  • 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 | Maya 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 storage device.

New features

Daemons

  • RFMAYA-309 - New Visualizer daemon.

Mesher

  • RFMAYA-454 - New mesher Velocity Color Set parameters to create a Color Set with the mesh velocity information.

Parameters

  • RFMAYA-150 - New Cache Frame Offset parameter for scene node.

  • RFMAYA-499 - New Cache Offset parameter for Fluid, Mesher, Rigid and Elastic nodes.

Improvements

Cache process

  • RFMAYA-457 - Total elapsed time is displayed after cache process finishes.

  • RFMAYA-458 - Total disk written bytes is displayed after cache process finishes.

Maya UI

  • RFMAYA-390 - Possibility to display particle Age and Vorticity in the viewport in addition to velocity values.

Resolved limitations

Fluid

  • RFMAYA-328 - Fluids lack "Compute Vorticity" option.

Fixed bugs

Emitters

  • RFMAYA-479 - Fill emitter does not create any particles when its Surface Offset is 0.0 for objects in default Shell mode.

Parameters

  • RFMAYA-494 - Fluid node particle color ramp is not saved properly when using the Maya Binary format.

  • RFMAYA-495 - Sometimes there is an error when clearing the Scene parameter of RealFlow nodes.

Limitations

Daemons
  • RFMAYA-463 - Setting keys on crown shape parameters crashes Maya on simulation reset.
Maya UI
  • RFMAYA-310 - Legacy viewport is not supported.
  • RFMAYA-419 - Transformation tools may lead to unexpected results when used in a mode different than Object on RealFlow nodes.
  • RFMAYA-461 - Undo of Manipulator controllers does not work.
Meshes
  • RFMAYA-145 - Motion blur only works for cached meshes yet.

Known bugs

Emitters
  • RFMAYA-391 - Simulating frame by frame always creates new particles, no matter what is the resolution of the fluid.
  • RFMAYA-431 - Maya crashes when using a subdiv animated by vertex for the Object Emitter.
Maya UI
  • RFMAYA-440 - Undoing the deletion of a RealFlow node may not recover the previously existing links.
Meshes
  • RFMAYA-144 - Motion blur for cached meshes looks distorted when the samples are taken from frames with different number of vertices.
  • RFMAYA-313 - Maya 2017 crashes sometimes the first time a Mesher node loads a mesh with more than ~25k triangles.
nParticles
  • RFMAYA-137 - Maya crashes sometimes in Cache Mode with nParticles.
  • RFMAYA-324 - Particles synchronization between Fluid and nParticles is not working properly.
Simulation
  • RFMAYA-420 - Maya crashes sometimes when a Rigid simulation stops if GPU is enabled. Caching the simulation works.