RealFlow integration

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Rendering fluids is a complex process and often requires very large computational resources. In today's cinematic and motion graphics industry, there's always a demand for higher resolution, more detail or larger fluid surfaces and volumes.

RealFlow™ provides excellent fluid simulations, and it can generate different outputs:

A mesh .BIN file obtained from a particle simulation, and already meshed inside RealFlow™

A particle .BIN file obtained from a particle simulation, to be meshed in render time (the mesh is generated in render time, so the scene file size remains small)

An .SD mesh file obtained from a simulation of large bodies of water (sea, ocean, waves...) obtained with RealWave™

Maxwell Render includes the following extensions to handle the RealFlow output and convert them into a renderable entity:

Extension	Type	Input	Output
Maxwell Particles	Particle loader	.BIN particles generated in RealFlow or particles generated in a 3D platform that supports it	Procedural spheres to render
Maxwell Mesher	Particle loader Mesh loader	.BIN particles generated in RealFlow .BIN mesh produced by RealFlow .SD produced by RealWave + frame number	Triangle mesh to render
Maxwell Cloner	Instancer	.BIN particles + an object existing in the scene	Instances of an object on each point of the BIN cloud
RF Meshes	Geometry loader	.BIN mesh generated in RealFlow	Triangle mesh to render
RW Meshes	Geometry loader	.SD produced by RealWave + frame number	Triangle mesh to render