Aachen, Germany — March 8, 2012 - Jawset Visual Computing announces the release of TurbulenceFD v1.0, a fluid simulation and volumetric rendering plugin for Maxon Cinema 4D and NewTek LightWave 3D.

TurbulenceFD simulates and renders all kinds of gaseous fluids like fire, smoke, explosions, vapor, mist, dust and clouds. Its intuitive workflow integrates fluid dynamics seamlessly into existing scenes by using any type of animated object geometry as emitters or solid collision objects. TurbulenceFD has already been used in several TV and film productions including

• Iron Sky
• Surrogates
• Fringe
• Terra Nova
• CSI: Las Vegas
• Battlestar Gallactica Blood and Chrome

FLUID SIMULATION

• Hybrid CPU/GPU simulation pipeline
• Multigrid Solver Technology
• Adaptive Simulation Space
• For more features see http://www.jawset.com

Built on advanced Multigrid solver technology, TurbulenceFD provides outstanding simulation performance that scales well to the hundreds of millions of voxels and beyond. It’s simulation pipeline supports processing all features at their full quality on the GPU. In GPU mode, the simulation achieves speedups of up to 12 times the CPU performance. When running out of GPU memory, a fallback mechanism continues simulations on the CPU automatically.

VOLUMETRIC RENDERER

• GPU Based Real-Time Preview
• Physically Based HDR Fire Shader
• Render-Time Sub-Grid Detail
• Multiple Scattering
• For more features see http://www.jawset.com

TurbulenceFD features a real-time viewport preview that enables a very intuitive shading workflow as well as direct visual control of the simulation results. The Volumetric Renderer employs efficient sampling technology that reduces the render times needed to get noise free results for large scale smoke simulations as well as the thin layers used to shade flames. A color simulation based on the physical black body radiation model provides realistic high-dynamic range fire colors without sacrificing artistic control. Multiple Scattering is calculated without noisy sampling, which makes it very effective for use in animation. TurbulenceFD features a sub-grid detail mechanism that adds procedural detail to the fluid at render time that does not require any additional simulation time or memory.

FREE LEARNING EDITION

A free Learning Edition with no time-limit is available for download at http://www.jawset.com/try

New particles

X-Particles is a plugin for Cinema 4D, designed as a replacement for Cinema’s inbuilt basic particle system. It is a completely new particle system which does not need the standard Cinema 4D emitter or Thinking Particles. It has a number of components:

four generator objects – Emitter, Object Generator, Sprite Generator, and Trail Generator

three control objects – System, Question, and Action

two new primitive objects (Cross and 3-Plane) which can also be used independently of other X-Particles objects

seventeen particle modifiers including some new modifiers not provided with C4D as standard

two tags

a volume shader

a sprite channel shader

Control system

X-Particles contains a system of close control over almost all parameters using Questions and Actions. No Xpresso is required and everything is done through Cinema’s Object and Attribute Managers in the same way as for other objects. The system works by asking a ’Question’ of each particle – for example, does the particle age exceed a specified value. If the particle ‘passes’ the Question, an Action is called which has an effect on the particle, Most Actions work through the particle modifiers but others are independent of them.

Questions and Actions are not dependent on keyframes, so although most aspects of the X-Particles system can be keyframed, this is not essential to its operation.

Compatibility with other Cinema components

X-Particles is compatible with the existing particle modifiers in Cinema 4D. It can be used with object deformers and Mograph effectors, and works with the new dynamics system in R12 or later. For users of R11.5, it contains its own basic collision system for handling collisions with scene objects. Splines generated by the Trail object can be rendered with the Hair renderer. X-Particles can also emit Thinking Particles and particles can then be rendered with Pyrocluster or with the C4D Hair renderer.

Availability

X-Particles will be on sale via the dedicated web site (www.x-particle.com) from Tuesday, February 21st. It is available for Cinema 4D versions R11.5, R12, and R13.

Demo version

A 14-day unrestricted demo can be downloaded from the X-Particles web site (http://www.x-particle.com/?page_id=179)

Cost

The plugin will be available at the introductory price €99 until the end of March 2012, when it will revert to the standard price of €149.

About the creators

X-Particles is produced by Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor.

Steve is a freelance software developer specialising in plugin development for Cinema 4D. Since 2008 he has written 8 plugins for Cinema 4D, both commercial and freeware. His personal web site is at www.microbion.co.uk.

Mike is Mograph artist woth 13 years exeriance working from shepperton studios in the UK.

His personal web site http://www.slouchcorp.com

Contact

Steve and Mike can be contacted via the dedicated web site (www.x-particle.com) or by email to info@x-particle.com.