RealFlow 2014 pricing reduced
Apr 28, 2014 by Joel LeLievre
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(Updated) Next Limit’s Luis Miguel Mora has released two new videos showing improvements to the Hybrido mesher in RealFlow 2014: video 1–video 2.
In advance of releasing the 2014 version of the fluid simulation tool, RealFlow, Next Limit has announced that they will be reducing the price to $2,500 per node-locked license. Also announced, is standard floating licenses will now include one free node, and the RealFlow RenderKit will be free and unlimited. For full details, you can check out the Next Limit email newsletter on their website.
In advance of releasing the 2014 version of the fluid simulation tool, RealFlow, Next Limit has announced that they will be reducing the price to $2,500 per node-locked license. Also announced, is standard floating licenses will now include one free node, and the RealFlow RenderKit will be free and unlimited. For full details, you can check out the Next Limit email newsletter on their website.
PhoenixFD is 960$ (for max and maya) and with liquids, it does also smoke and very cool foam see this link: https://vimeo.com/groups/164715
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Bifrost in maya is not 100% ready yet and will maybe in max too any time soon as I have read about on Fxguide: https://www.fxguide.com/featured/bifrost-exclusive-first-in-depth-look/.
So it’s a good idea to lower real flow price.
Definitely agree! Competition is good because it not only lowers the price of RealFlow but forces them to innovate even more. To compete with Bifrost/Phoenix, I would like to see a quicker and more detailed Hybrido voxel solver and greatly improved connectivity plugins to start/tweak sims within your host app. I believe Realflow 2014 has already delivered on the first point.
I have used RealFlow at the studio I work at for around 6 months and it is incredible. The fact that you can simulate 80 million particles and mesh these fluids while still keeping the system stable is very impressive. The ‘Daemons’ like gravity, noise, DSpline, ‘Magic’, etc are also very handy.
I personally think it will take at least 2-4 more years for BiFrost to reach feature parity with RealFlow. Bifrost may soon become quicker to sim for more basic situations though, which is very important.
I tried phoenixFD 3 years ago, and definitely have got to check it out again!