Insydium has released X-Particles 4 its particle system plugin for Cinema 4D. New features include:
- ExplosiaFX smoke and simulation software. This tool was acquired last year by Insydium is now integrated into the latest X Particles for creating smoke, fire and explosive simulations.
- A new particle based dynamic liquid solver to quickly create small scale fluid simulations.
- A new hybrid SPH solver xpFluidFX for medium to large scale fluid simulations.
- XpVertexMap Maker adds four modes to manipulate the vertex weight, including vertex speed, texture, X-Particles/object vertices and xpExplosiaFX.
- Support for the OpenVDB frame work for particle meshing, including the ability to be used as a remesher for polygon objects.
- A new xpCloth Dynamics system introducing cloth simulations to the X-Particles workflow.
- XpSplineFlow adds the ability to direct the flow of particles along a Spline.
- Cell packing and circle packing emitters.
- A new velocity field generator to create custom velocity field effects, drive particles with Splines, or Object Tangents or Normals, and even use the Cinema 4D noises to art direct custom turbulence.
X-Particles costs £540. Find out more on the Insydium website.
It looks awesome!
The amount of new features is worth the upgrade.
I kind of gave up on Houdini, too much stuff to learn, math and code to deal with. I need something that allows me to work quickly, intuitively and X-Particles is the perfect tool. I wish I had the mindset right for Houdini, but I’m glad there’s an option like XP which fits my needs.
Hey man,
I totally hear you, but keep in mind there’s still Houdini Engine for Cinema4D, which can serve you as a nice filler for missing features and allows to smoothly bend towards more technical approach without leaving your favourite environment 🙂 I always say that you can’t get too technical with fx stuff, it’s just getting easier with time. It’s also very affordable comparing to X-Particles. Good luck!
BTW: Anyways, this IS a very valuable upgrade indeed.
omg shills everywhere