ImplosiaFX 1.0 is available!

[Mr.Core]

Hi guys,

I am happy to say that we ( I am and Exocortex ) have released the first
version of ImplosiaFX, the fast and modern ICE Modelling-based shatter
toolset.



It supports Windows both 64- and 32-bit (Linux coming soon ).

It has been significally improved and extended since the first version.

Here are the key key improvements:

- Modern iterative-like fracturing
- Support of the normal preservation
- Chunks extraction.
- Automatic materials assignation
- New top level menu (tool bar aslo is available)
- Completely rewritten ICE workflow to improve stability
- 32-bit support
- Full documentation
- Sample scenes
- Lots of stability fixes (thank you beta testers!)

So, here is the full features list:

- Continuous/Voronoi/Iterative fragmentaion types;
- Ability to drive fragmentation behavior via ICE;
- Booleans ( robust and fast );
- One-click menu\toolbar workflow as well as ability to build your own
full ICE-based system;
- Normals and UVW preservation;
- Extraction each chunk as separated object ( fast );
- Automatical material assignation as well as one-click selection of
the cut faces to further work;
- Normal preservation during per-island animation ( momentum etc );

Check out the trailer, the detailed feature list, and give it a try here:

http://exocortex.com/implosiafx

Best Regards,
-Oleg

[iamVFX]

Congrats, guys!

[nuverian]

Great! Was quite a journey. Grats
Looking great as well of course.

[Leo]

Great work!

[ActionArt]

Fantastic!!!

Now full steam ahead on that wonderful Physics Fluid I hope?

[origin]

Pretty awesome tool, and FAST!

[Hirazi Blue]

Nice!
Good thing also that the somewhat ridiculous (IMHO) name "Carve and Shatter"
eventually got replaced again by the catchier "ImplosiaFX"...

[Mr.Core]

Thanks all guys!

[bottleofram]

Congrats! Brilliant effort.

Nice!
Good thing also that the somewhat ridiculous (IMHO) name "Carve and Shatter"
eventually got replaced again by the catchier "ImplosiaFX"...

To be fair, it was a better suited name as far as descriptiveness goes (IMHO). But yeah... Mr.Core already made Implosia very well known to the community and it sure sounds better. Good decision there.

Except... theres now both free and commercial verson 1.0... Right?

[Hirazi Blue]

You're obviously right as far as descriptiveness goes. But "ImplosiaFX" is a catchier name, that rolls of the tongue, so to speak, much easier & is thus probably the better name for marketing purposes also.


As to the old and the new ImplosiaFX, the easy answer is I imagine,
there's an "ImplosiaFX 1.0" and an "Exocortex ImplosiaFX 1.0". See: no confusion, whatsoever... ;;)

[Mr.Core]

"ImplosiaFX" can be fully self-descriptive if it will get some kind of the dynamics for performing something like real implosion effects
Regard to the free version - it has only x64 support and other limitations in comparison to actual one, but the really unstable feature of free ifx - it's a custom data type called gigatopo ( v1.0 ), which can lead to unpredictable crashes sometime, especially when you trying to build your own trees with the implosia's nodes. And of course the actual version has "iterative" fragmentation that in my opinion produces most realistic chunks.

[TwinSnakes007]

So many great things coming for SI...these are exciting times. Congrats on your achievement!