A few updates were released today and, more importantly, emFluid5 is now open beta.
I have the flu, so please forgive me for being lazy and only copy/pasting today's newsletter here ;)
Updates:
New versions of emFlock2, emNewton2 and emRPC4 are available.
The multithreading has been revised and things simulate/render a bit faster than before.
A new version of emTools is available with the following main new features:
- new compounds "Image Reader/Writer" and "Create Particles from Image" (X).
- new compound "Liquid Particle Killer" (including a demo scene).
- new compound "Calculate Normals from Positions".
- new compound "Per Point to Per Node Color".
- new compound "Get XSI Home Path".
- a few bug fixes.
Many thanks for the support, owei!
Note that if you are working with Softimage 2015 or Softimage 2015 SP1 then you should definitely update the addons to benefit from a bug fix in the Softimage ICE SDK!
emFluid5 beta (Softimage):
As of today, anybody can download and try the beta of emFluid5 for Softimage.
Real volumes for Softimage, yay!
The addon, a few demo scenes and links to tutorials can all be found on the emFluid5 web page (scroll down to see the links to the tutorials).
The emFluid5 documentation is, ahem, a bit lean, but if you want to dive deeper into emFluid5 and need some support then let me know and I will sign you up to the Mootzoid beta list (i.e. a private Google group) where you can get help from experienced emFluid5 users who have been using the beta for several years.
Finally, if you are interested in purchasing or upgrading to the new emFluid version, please get back to me via email.
Cheers,
Eric
PS: some old emFluid5 tests made during the development.