JangaFX announce LiquiGen alpha access

FYI, between Beta and Release there’s the most important stage, which is the Release Candidate/Gold phase, where features are frozen and only bug fixes happen.

And to make this as simple as possible, since you’re still wondering what I’m moan about; you do not present a new fluid simulation software, while focusing 90% on the real time rendering, and 10% on the actual fluid properties. That screams, “money grabber attention seeker”, more that anything useful as an actual fluid sim, that could compete with the likes, of the current apps that actually do fluid simulations.

To me it’s just feels that the direction this is going does not have the “right” to be called a “fluid simulator”; at least, no more that the “real time” fluid “simulators” we see in Unreal, or other real time engines.

Having said that, I do hope the dev prove me 100% wrong, as I have shared these thoughts with him already. But, I have my doubts…

The devs don’t have to prove you wrong at all, because your complaints are pretty weird. You’re looking at a realtime fluid simulator that happens to have a path-tracing feature, and you think that disqualifies it from being a fluid simulator?

It’s like you’ve stumbled into the year 2024 from a time before ray-tracing was built into commodity GPUs, and you’re angry that path-tracing is being flaunted in public all of a sudden. How do you feel about women showing their ankles? Does wearing a short skirt rob them of the right to be called a lady?

Path-tracing is easy now, so I doubt they spent that much time on it. It’s a very nice feature to have, though, when you can iterate many times on a shot in your viewport, without always having to export caches to another app.

More importantly, the videos show a good variety of simulations running at very decent quality at an impressive framerate. Much, much faster than Houdini or Realflow or PhoenixFD, and at a pretty usable level of detail for room-scale water effects. None of the usual realtime shortcuts are in evidence.

So I can’t see anything to complain about. Your complaining about it just makes you seem confused. I guess cryonic suspension will do that. When did you come from?

It isn’t really wise to through life claiming that anyone who disagrees with you knows less that you.

I’ve been in VFX for going on 30 years, and yeah, I’ve done plenty of FX work. That’s how I got so old. I know exactly how slow sims are, which is why I’ve been writing CFD software that runs on GPU since about 2011, and that’s why I’m commenting on this topic. Apparently there are “only a handful” of us on the planet?

I’ve even been down the road of adding a basic renderer to a simulator. It turns out it really does make more sense to render as you go, wherever you can, rather than squeezing out terabytes of caches where you might see some renders tomorrow if you’re lucky.

The path-tracer in Liquigen is just a viewport renderer. Nice to have, easy to add, good idea, no downsides whatsoever. It already has plain particles and a plain mesh display, too. But you want… less?

It’s an alpha, for pity’s sake, and you’re whining that it’s “useless”, “low end” “pretend-to-be”, a “toy” because it has one little feature you wouldn’t have thought of.

You should learn to backpedal properly. I’m totally gonna be judging you on it.

I really think that you should stop posting your own bad thoughts about this here and let people that are happy about it be happy. Just because YOU think it´s a bad product in so many ways as you describe, that doesn´t mean that everyone else thinks that.