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Software > 3DS Max > Plugin News

Glu3D GPU Edition

Jan 12, 2012 by CGP Staff
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3DAliens announced an NVidia CUDA GPU-accelerated version of its Glu3D fluid dynamics plugin for Max, which offers significantly faster simulations. A trial version is available. More at 3DAliens.

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Joe
13 years ago

I must say I was working with the beta of the GPU fluid simulator for the last 4 or 5 months.

This GPU version of glu is solid and fast. For anyone who has used glu in the past this will certainly blow you away. Of course if you have an older video card like myself you won’t be able to do 500K particles in realtime but you can certainly simulator 500K even 4milliion I was able to simulate with this GPU version on an old crappy Quadro FX 1700 graphics card.

So when my new Nvidia GTX980 arrives I’ll be smoking with GPU enabled software.

Its so fun to see your fluids in max simulating while your working. You can still move around in the viewport while the sim is happening.

Keep in mind this isn’t realflow or Naiad but its the begining of some nice fast fluids inside 3dsmax!

stig atle steffensen
13 years ago

Finally we have GPU accelerated fluid simulation, this is really the future and how it should be done. Looking forward to use this.

Now Nextlimit just has to do the same with realflow.

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