Roughly a week before SI RS VDBs became available,
http://blackcore.technology/softimage_efx
Quotes from RS ForumAvailability
Sorry, this product no more available for purchase.
INSYDIUM LTD has acquired ExplosiaFX, Blackcore will continue supporting and bug fixing ExplosiaFX until 2016 end.
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KISSB
interestingly, explosia isn’t available for purchase anymore…
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ionart
OMG! nooooo…...
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Artur Woźniak
Hasn’t it been released for free?
Artur
Few quotes from RS forum
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deroesi
so cinema4d only in the future?
to be honest I gave up when it came to volumes, fluids and rbd sims in softimage and simply bought houdini indie which was even cheaper than any plugin for SI. (and this stuff is pretty straight forward in H when you start with a shelf tool)
how does SI+explosia compare to H speed/mem/usability wise? any user here? (the samples look indeed awesome)
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owei
@deroesi
Sure..and now that indie supports 3rd party renderer, that would be a solution..if you are small enough wink
If one wants to stay with soft, emFluid is still there wink
http://www.mootzoid.com/plugin/emfluid5
Lookig forward to test VDBs for soft NOW wink Was about time and I´m happy, that it is there now..
cheers,
oli
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druitre
Bad news, about explosiaFX.deroesi - 15 June 2016 05:36 PM
how does SI+explosia compare to H speed/mem/usability wise? any user here? (the samples look indeed awesome)
I have it and it works fantastically fast, mainly because of the preview system that gives near-final quality results in real time.
You can iterate the bananas out of your scene before ever cashing or rendering.
Downside is that MR doesn’t allow for SRT changes on your fluid box, so if you don’t have Arnold you’re stuck with just one fluid per scene.
Also more complicated setups - fluid boxes interacting with each other and dynamic obstacles, advections that would be the result of these kind of interactions, etc - are not possible to see in the preview system or not possible to achieve as far as I know.
All that being said, I’m going to try and see how far I can get with RS and VDB cashed ExplosiaFX.
Cheers, Jasper
Insydium are the makers of Xparticles for C4d
and buying Blackcore which is fine, but for the life of me, what in the world is the point of removing availability?
So Hope you had the chance to download the (fully functional) trial before then!
Nevertheless, here is a passage about working with EFX VDB cache sequence with RS.
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ionart
efx_cache\SCN004_VDB\smoke#####.vdb
with this syntay.. its looking for the sequence better… sometimes i get this message:
’ WARNING : [Redshift] Failed to find volume file efx_cache\SCN004_VDB\smoke00022.vdb. Volume will be empty
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Adrian
#### works.
[frame] works if the digits in your vds correspond to the frame value which is just a number with no leading zeroes
Thank you
Cheers
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ionart
okay… in cases i have to build a new container…
framenumbers are replaced with: #####
working fine!
cheers