Houdini plugin - RealFlow integration
Maxwell Render provides a close integration with RealFlowâ„¢ fluid simulation tool.
The plug-in is able to translate particle systems and meshes to the Maxwell scene using extensions and supports the procedural workflow offered by the RealFlow RenderKit tool. The relation between the Houdini nodes and Maxwell extensions are the following:
| Name | Houdini operator | Maxwell extension |
|---|---|---|
| RealFlow Particle Import | rf_particle_import | Maxwell Particles |
| Houdini's standard particle system | particle | Maxwell Particles |
| RealFlow Mesh Import | rf_mesh_import | RF Meshes |
| RealFlow RenderKit Particler | rf_flow_particler | Maxwell Particles |
| RealFlow RenderKit Mesher | rf_flowmesher | Maxwell Mesher |
| RealFlow RenderKit Cloud | rf_cloud | Maxwell Volumetric |
The Maxwell extensions have some extra parameters which can be defined in Houdini with detail or point geometry attributes. The following sections describe these extra parameters.
RealFlow Particle Import
| Name | Class | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| mb_factor | Detail | float | Multiplier for the particles motion blur value. |
| radius_factor | Detail | float | Multiplier for the original radius value of each particle. |
| per_particle | Detail | integer | Generates more particles from the original ones. |
| extra_dispersion | Detail | float | Distributes the newly generated particles with this dispersion value around the original particle. |
| extra_deformation | Detail | float | Specifies the generation method of the particles. |
Houdini's standard particle system
| Name | Class | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| lod | Detail | float | Level of detail value of the particle system in percentage (0 - 100). |
| mb_factor | Detail | float | Multiplier for the particles motion blur value. |
| radius_factor | Detail | float | Multiplier for the original radius value of each particle. |
| per_particle | Detail | integer | Generates more particles from the original ones. |
| extra_dispersion | Detail | float | Distributes the newly generated particles with this dispersion value around the original particle. |
| extra_deformation | Detail | float | Specifies the generation method of the particles. |
RealFlow Mesh Import
| Name | Class | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| mb_factor | Detail | float | Multiplier for the original motion blur value. |
| smooth_normals | Detail | integer (0|1) | The mesh looks smooth regarding certain angle when enabled. |
| smooth_angle | Detail | float | Defines the angle below which the normals are interpolated, resulting on a smooth look. |
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