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Fluid Simulation
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FumeFX 7.5: Fire Meets GPU soon
FumeFX 7.5 ignites GPU acceleration: up to 5× faster smoke and fire sims, automatic CPU fallback when memory runs out.
JangaFX unleashes LiquiGen 1.0: liquids meet production‑ready polish
LiquiGen 1.0 delivers production‑ready GPU‑based liquid simulation with per‑emitter viscosity, mesh flipbook and VAT export, new materials and camera controls.
PhysX Goes Open: Fluid Dynamics Unleashed
NVIDIA’s PhysX Flow, the powerful GPU-accelerated fluid simulation engine, is now fully open source—free and feature-packed for VFX pros.
FumeFX 6.7 for 3ds Max: Stoke Up Your Sims
FumeFX 6.7 delivers fire presets, Arnold 2024 support, and Stoke MX compatibility for 3ds Max—now available for $695.
Autodesk Launches Bifrost for Maya 2.11
Autodesk unveils Bifrost for Maya 2.11, offering Artists enhanced tools for procedural effects, USD support, and a better integration for fluid simulations.
Ember-, Liquid- and Geo-Gen now available!
JangaFX introduces updates to EmberGen, LiquiGen and GeoGen, offering moving simulation domains, whitewater systems and spline-based terrain control.
The next generation of water simulation
There are some things that get more complicated, the more
you look at them - simulation of physical phenomena is one of them. And as we saw at this year's Siggraph Conference,
there are people who are looking very closely!
Elementary!
You’ve surely seen the posters: There’s a new Pixar movie, this time asking “What if the Aristotelian elements have feelings?” The story plays out in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together.
Latest version of the liquid simulation plug-in Phoenix!
Software developer Chaos releases version 5 - and introduces support for V-Ray's CPU Interactive Production Rendering. A report on the software release.
Get started with Phoenix thanks to this two-part guide!
Cory Holm, Team Lead at Chaos Group, publishes a detailed guide suitable for newcomers. How the Phoenix fluid simulation software works ..
Simulationssoftware finalFluid als Full Release!
Cebas Visual Technology lifts its sim tool finalFluid out of the beta phase. Fire, smoke, dust & co. are created in 3ds Max!
FumeFX simulation software available as a free beta!
Version 6 of the VFX software from developer Sitni Sati enters the beta phase. The trick: FumeFX 6 Beta is also free to use for commercial projects up to and including 21 December 2022!
Flip Fluids 1.4.0 is released!
More than just a coffee party: Simulate liquids with the new Flip Fluids - already with Blender 3.2. Simulation makes coffee a pleasure!
Chaos releases Phoenix 5.0!
Better than the replicator from Star Trek? The latest version of the liquid simulation software for 3ds Max and Maya will get you wet. But: frustrated by unfinished features?
Water still wet (and refreshing)!
What etiquette doesn't tell you: How does water behave correctly - and physically? This 2D artist has stirred a glass of water for you.
3D artist creates water simulation in Blender
A beach holiday from the Blender pipeline? With the Flip Fluids and Botaniq add-ons, you can create your own little spot in the sun.
SimpleOcean OSL | Release
This is where we like to get into the water: with this OSL map, vector displacement gets lively!
Dune Solver | Release
For Houdini: counting grains of sand - just like on the desert planet.
Fog Simulation| Eye-Candy
Shadows and fog: A group of award-winning 3D artists smoke themselves.
Champagne simulation | Fluids workshop
In the fiery stream of vines: Workflow fuelled with bubbly.