thinkingParticles 6 Drop 7 Newest Features Video
23thinkingParticles Drop 7 has arrived!
~ Fully procedural Boolean Operations with the possibility to create watertight results, and much more. Subscribers might want to get their hands on it as soon as possible. Use the Update on your cebas Product Manager and get Drop 7.
NEW POWER FEATURES:
SurfaceForce
Drop 7 new SurfaceForce Operator allows you to create a force field to continuously displace particles. This new Force Operator is perfect for creating waves and other particle effects with greater ease and amazing flexibility.
WaterLevel
More ways to create particles from the Generator is always good news! This new particle generator offers many creative ways to spawn particles. A simple mouse click to fill a whole landscape with puddles or lakes - how much faster can you get.
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FlowSolver 6.7 - New
Fluid solver 6.7 is the best fluid solver offered by thinkingParticles so far. It has always been one of the fastest and most stable particle based SPH solvers in the industry, but it got even better. More stability, more predictable and faster results than ever.
OpenVDBShape
Industry standard OpenVDB brings many more new toys! The new OpenVDBShape operator is a lightning fast surfacer offering an optimized multi-threaded approach to surface generation with great flexibility and filtering options.
ShapeDeform
This operator offers a fully procedural approach to deforming objects right within thinkingParticles. Similar to a particle skinner approach, particles 'attached' themselves to the nearest vertex and influence it.
VolumeDiffusion
Simulating true volume diffusion is a tough one, but it can be done in thinkingParticles. Any value attached to a particle can now diffuse within a volume in a physically accurate and fully procedural way. Spreading color, heat or whatever value is fast and simple to achieve.
PSelCollect
This operator combines with PSelection operator to collect particles into a pool of accessible particles than can be easily accessed later on in a simulation.
PSelection
A new Collect mode has been added to this operator. This new mode works in conjunction with the PSelCollect node.
ShapeCutter
Boolean operations re-invented. ShapeCutter is more than just a simple cutter operator, it's a true 3D boolean operator! Any mesh can be procedurally booled - it is automatically turned into a true 3D volume before any boolean opration is applied. It creates always water tight results.
APFInputFrom 2
A new weight Data Channel parameter has been added for the All Purpose Fields. This data channel contains a factor per particle, defining the strength of dissipation within a volume. Existing data channels can now be used as a source of values to feed the cells in the grid.
APFOutputTo 2
Powerful new controls and functionality has been added to the AP-Fields. A new transmission time value along with a weight data channel selector is available to create enhanced volumetric diffusion effects for various parameters in a simulation.
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Drop 7 also adds to the ALL PURPOSE FIELD (AP-Fields) Input/Output 2 transmission time-weight data that further enhances volumetric diffussion effects for various parameters in a simulation. Now you can define the strength of dissipation within a volume.
Fluid and rigid body interactions have been enhanced a lot in Drop 7. Rigid bodies now shows much better buoyancy and interaction with fluid simulations. Transfer of momentum between fluid particles and rigid bodies is resolved much faster and more accurate. Objects engulfed within a fluid will start to rise or sink depending on their specific physical properties.
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Bug Fixes
The following have been dealt with:
PLight - a bug sometimes resulting in random light intensities when network rendering is now fixed.
ObjToParticle helper node - ID output.
PositionBorn the rate value can now be animated.
Both Cache file formats issue when using a start offset value has been isolated and fixed.
APFInputFrom and APFOutputTo data channels debugged and fixed.
StdForces max space warps now updates in realtime.
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