Icon Bar - Simulation

Here it is possible to change the simulation states of a node selection with a single click. Additionally you can change the node selection's export resources.

Set Selected Active

This and the following two icons influence the node selection's "Simulation" parameter in the "Node Params" "Node" panel. This is the first button and activates the node selection.

Set Selected Cache

This button sets the node selection to "Cache" mode. When a node is in cache mode, RealFlow reads the previously simulated and stored data from disk and displays them in the viewport. The distinctive feature is that cached elements can still influence fluid, objects and RealWave nodes which are not cached, but they cannot be influenced themselves. Cached elements are very often used with RealFlow's grid fluid technology (“Hybrido”), because there the common workflow is subdivided into passes and each new simulation requires the cached data from the previous calculation cycle.

Set Selected Inactive

This button sets the node selection to "Inactive". From this moment, the node no longer contributes to the simulation.

Set Selected to Export data

Each RealFlow node has its own data file formats and export resources. These attributes can be easily controlled under “Export Central”, but with hundreds of nodes this can be a very time-consuming task. There are different solutions to manage these resources is scripting; the other is RealFlow's layer system. You can activate the default resources of a layer's members with a single click. This feature also supports multi-layer selections so you can manage even more resources on the fly. The last option is to select the desired nodes from the “Nodes” window, viewport or “Relationship Editor” and activate all resources with this button/icon.

Disable Data Export of Selected

This function works exactly like “Set Selected to Export data”, but is used to deactivate all export resources of the current node selection.