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Fluids in Carrara and a plugin by Alberto is coming

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  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436
    Greymom said:

    Awesome work!

     

    Thank you!

     

    PhilW said:

    Looks like you are performing wonders with this!

    The original Guy's FluidSim3D simulator and Carrara complement each other very well. Carrara let us easily create the environment for the simulator. This, in turn, is fast and very flexible. They both are a great team, you'll see. I'm sure Carrarists will do wonders I can't even imagine.

     

    Imago said:

    This is exactly I meant! Absolutely perfect!
    I hope it can work on chars as well!
    I can't wait to see it work on my Carrara!
    Dumb question: Any idea on when, where and how it will be available to us Mortals? And how much you will charge for it?
    Thanks!

    Good questions. 

    Where?: before the end of this year.

    When?, at sharecg, as my previous plugin,

    How much I will charge for it?, ¡nothing! (I'm enjoying creating this plugin and I want to help Carrarists, you're a wonderful community!, and I like Carrara so much!)

     

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202

    that is very generous and I am looking forward to it heart

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    thanks Alberto, that's very generous of you

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152
    Alberto said:
    Good questions. 

    Where?: before the end of this year.

    When?, at sharecg, as my previous plugin,

    How much I will charge for it?, ¡nothing! (I'm enjoying creating this plugin and I want to help Carrarists, you're a wonderful community!, and I like Carrara so much!)

    Yay, this sounds good! Very generous! laugh

    Can't wait to try it!
    In the meanwhile I'll look on how to use those files from GridFluidSim3D...

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Very generous after all your work in creating it (even if it piggyback's on someone else's actual sim code, I am sure there has been a lot of work to get this far!). Can't wait to try it, it is one of the few things still missing from Carrara's toolbox.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,551

    That repulsor/attractor thing is very cool! As if the original work wasn't spectacular enough! Just Brilliant!

  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    Alberto said:
    Greymom said:

    Awesome work!

     

    Thank you!

     

    PhilW said:

    Looks like you are performing wonders with this!

    The original Guy's FluidSim3D simulator and Carrara complement each other very well. Carrara let us easily create the environment for the simulator. This, in turn, is fast and very flexible. They both are a great team, you'll see. I'm sure Carrarists will do wonders I can't even imagine.

     

    Imago said:

    This is exactly I meant! Absolutely perfect!
    I hope it can work on chars as well!
    I can't wait to see it work on my Carrara!
    Dumb question: Any idea on when, where and how it will be available to us Mortals? And how much you will charge for it?
    Thanks!

    Good questions. 

    Where?: before the end of this year.

    When?, at sharecg, as my previous plugin,

    How much I will charge for it?, ¡nothing! (I'm enjoying creating this plugin and I want to help Carrarists, you're a wonderful community!, and I like Carrara so much!)

     

    This looks amazing, and I can't wait.  It's extremely nice of you to give it for free.  LightX is one of the greatest plugins for Carrara ever, and I still can't believe you gave it away free.  Honestly as much as I love getting something for free, I also think you should be rewarded for your efforts too, especially for plugins as invaluable and useful as these.  This fluid sim looks tremendous, I can't wait to play with it!  smiley

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152
    edited November 2017
    Jonstark said:

    This looks amazing, and I can't wait.  It's extremely nice of you to give it for free.  LightX is one of the greatest plugins for Carrara ever, and I still can't believe you gave it away free.  Honestly as much as I love getting something for free, I also think you should be rewarded for your efforts too, especially for plugins as invaluable and useful as these.  This fluid sim looks tremendous, I can't wait to play with it!  smiley

    Yes, I think the same! Luckily ShareCG has got an internal donation system... I guess some coin can fly in that direction when the plugin will be published!

    And... I take this opportunity to ask: How I have to compile the base for use the plugin? I got all the files from the GridFluidSim3D repository, but all I get is an error... Someone can teach me, or better us since I guess I'm not the only one, how to have it working? Thanks in advance!

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  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152
    edited November 2017

    *Double post, sorry*

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  • McGuiverMcGuiver Posts: 219
    edited November 2017

    Alberto this just sounds amazing!.....i'll definately donate to the cause.

    Your latest video shows a cube splating against a wall,

    does this mean the simulator allows shapes as fluid objects?

    Also, will it allow scene forces upon the fluid, as the Carrara particle system does?

     

    EDIT: If shapes can be fluid objects, then would it be possible to use this simulator as an object destructor, given that the object keeps it's sharp edges?

    I know....too much thinking going on here.blush

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  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436
    Imago said:
    Jonstark said:

    This looks amazing, and I can't wait.  It's extremely nice of you to give it for free.  LightX is one of the greatest plugins for Carrara ever, and I still can't believe you gave it away free.  Honestly as much as I love getting something for free, I also think you should be rewarded for your efforts too, especially for plugins as invaluable and useful as these.  This fluid sim looks tremendous, I can't wait to play with it!  smiley

    Yes, I think the same! Luckily ShareCG has got an internal donation system... I guess some coin can fly in that direction when the plugin will be published!

    And... I take this opportunity to ask: How I have to compile the base for use the plugin? I got all the files from the GridFluidSim3D repository, but all I get is an error... Someone can teach me, or better us since I guess I'm not the only one, how to have it working? Thanks in advance!

    Thank you, Imago.

    Don't worry about building GridFluidSim3D, I'll upload the fluidsim.dll too. In fact, the original from the repository don't work with the plugin because I made some little changes.

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152
    edited November 2017
    Alberto said:

    Thank you, Imago.

    Don't worry about building GridFluidSim3D, I'll upload the fluidsim.dll too. In fact, the original from the repository don't work with the plugin because I made some little changes.

    Nice, thanks a lot! laugh
    I can't wait to try it!

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  • 0oseven0oseven Posts: 626

    Not to confuse the 'Liquid Plugin ' discussion but is a plugin for  OpenVDB viable ? The volumetrics look awsome.

     http://www.openvdb.org/

     

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175

    OpenVDB is perfectly doable, input or output. For instance, in Octane plugin, Carrara true volumetrics are sampled to openVDB. In the same way, openVDB files could be imported as volumetrics. But, doable and easy are 2 differents things and Sighman, Octane plugin programer, is outstanding.

  • 0oseven0oseven Posts: 626

    Thanks Philamo - So open VDB effects are available through the 'Octane Carrara plugin' assuming we have Octane installed [ I don't  angry] ?

    Well the thought of having it diectly in Carrara was a long shot smiley  !!!

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Yes you can load them for use in the Octane for Carrara plugin. But that is because Octane itself can understand and use VDBs so was a matter of loading and passing through the information. I'm not sure how you would display the data in native Carrara - that's not to say it can't be done, it would be an interesting challenge for one of our clever programming community.

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175
    The principle is simple enough. The devil being in the details ???? The OpenVDB library contains utility functions allowing to sample a Ray giving the density traversed. Carrara volumetric primitive give a ray and a colour and ask how this colour is altered. The difficult part is scattering.
  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,607

    Alberto, great work I will definitley buy this fluids plugin when it is ready. Now I may have to get Octane for Carrara.

  • mmoirmmoir Posts: 821

    Hey Alberto ,   this looks awesome.   A quite a while ago some people here were working on a short animation "Tango Alphas ship escape" story which required alot of water physics, Carrara's problem with this was one of the reasons I think we didn't finish the animation.   Looks great so far.

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    Lol, trust me to be overly ambitious!

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152

    Any news about the plugin? I'm so eager to try it!

    I can't wait... I can't wait... I can't wait.... smiley

  • HathatoolHathatool Posts: 21

    thank you

    amazing results

    yes

  • 0oseven0oseven Posts: 626

    Just wondering if any progress to report on a likely release?

  • ImagoImago Posts: 5,152
    0oseven said:

    Just wondering if any progress to report on a likely release?

    Wondering the same... It looks so amazing I can't wait to see it running on my Carrara...
    Hope he can finish it soon!

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Your beta testers await!

  • AlbertoAlberto Posts: 1,436

    Thank you to all for your interest! The plugin is almost finished.

    I'm writing the manual. 

  • 0oseven0oseven Posts: 626

    Excited - Sounds like it might be ready to go in my Christmas Stocking ! yes

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,168

    Great news.  Really looking forward to it

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202

    a manual yes

    this just gets more awesome 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987
    th3Digit said:

    a manual yes

    this just gets more awesome 

     

    plus 46

     

     

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