What is RealFlow?
RealFlow is professional fluid simulation software used widely in the visual effects industry for films, commercials, video games, and more. It provides advanced tools to simulate liquids, fire, smoke, explosions, cloth, hair, and complex interactions between fluids and objects.
Some key features of RealFlow include:
- Physically accurate fluid solvers for realistic liquid, fire, smoke, and explosion effects
- Tools for simulating foam, spray, bubbles, foam, viscosity, and more fluid properties
- Ability to integrate fluid sims into 3D packages like Maya, Cinema 4D, Houdini, and Blender
- Powerful collision engine for fluid-object interactions
- Cloth and hair simulation for adding detail
- Python scripting for automating workflows
- Distributed simulation for fast iterations
- An intuitive node-based workflow
RealFlow is used extensively in films, commercials, television, and video games to create realistic natural phenomena and effects like pouring liquids, smoke plumes, fiery explosions, oozing lava, splashing water, and more. It integrates well into production pipelines while providing powerful tools and speed for technical directors and artists.
Blender, Sketchfab, Autodesk Maya, Zmodeler, picoCAD, Swift 3D, MeshMagic 3D Modeling Software, K-3D, Bforartists, PhotoAnim, NAIAD are some alternatives to RealFlow.