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Position Based Fluids Demonstration

Saw this on reddit a few fays ago it is impressive but it had me thinking...

How often in a game do you find your self staring at moving fluids? Not all that often :p

Though it could come good with fountains of alien blood :D
 
pgi947 said:
Saw this on reddit a few fays ago it is impressive but it had me thinking...

How often in a game do you find your self staring at moving fluids? Not all that often :p

Though it could come good with fountains of alien blood :D
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True... it would work great for blood in games.
 
pgi947 said:
Saw this on reddit a few fays ago it is impressive but it had me thinking...

How often in a game do you find your self staring at moving fluids? Not all that often :p

Though it could come good with fountains of alien blood :D
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I don't really stare at it but i do like good water effects especially in open world games where you do a bit of swimming or boating.
 
I was playing with this stuff a few months ago and it is amazing what you can do.

It is not PhysX, but Realwave, a dedicated program for fluid motion.

I did this one some time ago, took about 1 day to work out and process using shear CPU power

done on my older I7 920
 
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Catanonia said:
I was playing with this stuff a few months ago and it is amazing what you can do.

It is not PhysX, but Realwave, a dedicated program for fluid motion.

I did this one some time ago, took about 1 day to work out and process using shear CPU power

done on my older I7 920
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I am no expert but I have seen that before and was titled PhysX. Of course the wave motion isn't PhysX but the fish tank with bullets flying through and balls is.

 
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Gregster said:
I am no expert but I have seen that before and was titled PhysX. Of course the wave motion isn't PhysX but the fish tank with bullets flying through and balls is.

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Mixture of programs are normally used including 3dMAX and others. The fluid dynamics are Realwave and and combined into a scene.

Amazing stuff and had me hooked for ages on my I7 920

Now I have my 5ghz OC 3930 and 32GB RAM, really must play with this again in RamDisk :D
 
pgi947 said:
Saw this on reddit a few fays ago it is impressive but it had me thinking...

How often in a game do you find your self staring at moving fluids? Not all that often :p

Though it could come good with fountains of alien blood :D
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I don't spend that much time looking at the water - but the moment I notice the fake spray and non-interactive wave shaders that aren't actually affected by the surrounding geometry i.e. the main menu in tomb raider it kills the immersion for me.


EDIT: RealFlow takes hours to days to compute similiar on the CPU (at a bit higher quality) - don't think RealWave was used for this as PhysX has its own fluid dynamic solvers.
 
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Rroff said:
EDIT: RealFlow takes hours to days to compute similiar on the CPU (at a bit higher quality) - don't think RealWave was used for this as PhysX has its own fluid dynamic solvers.
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Could be, just looks like a RealFlow sim. Either way not worth arguing about, still cool stuff.
 
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