Houdini -<->Real Flow Particle importer (beta)

[Guest xionmark]

Greetings,

I've just finished the first cut of the Real Flow particle import SOP

plugin and it is available now for download. There's also a simple

example you can download showing one method of importing the particles

and copying metaballs to points.

All attributes generated in Real Flow are imported and may be used just

like any attribute in Houdini, I'll have examples of more elaborate use

of these attributes soon.

Here's the URL:

http://www.digitalcinemaarts.com/dev/real_...flow/index.html

The next phase of the project will be an exporter to generate Real Flow

.sd scene files from Houdini geometry. This will the allow the artist

to generate fluid simulations using geometry created in Houdini and then

import the resulting particles back into Houdini for additional

processing.

The final phase will be a mesh importer to import meshes generated in

Real Flow and a particle exporter to allow importing of Houdini

particles into Real Flow.

Many thanks to Doug Struthers and Victor Gonzalez for their help and

support on this project!

Please send any bug reports to me.

Enjoy!

--Mark

[michael]

looks both usefull AND cool mark!

[Guest xionmark]

looks both usefull AND cool mark!

Yep, it's loads of fun! Having particles in Houdini *and* simulations like Real Flow is a great combination. I should have the SOP geometry exporter done very soon, I'll post a note here. Should have a few more examples too with emphasis on using the attributes in Real Flow, like viscosity, temperature, etc. to drive various aspects of the animation/scene (I cleaned up the typos too, funny as they were).

--Mark