LogInThe Beta phase for tyFlow, a plug-in for 3ds Max that acts as a replacement for Particle Flow, has ended.
Tyson Ibele, the developer and creator of tyFlow, a plug-in for 3ds Max that acts as a replacement for the tool's Particle Flow system, has announced the release of tyFlow FREE and tyFlow PRO, finishing the tool's Beta phase. The PRO version features full multi-threading, GPU acceleration, tyCache export, can be used commercially, and costs $395. The FREE version is, obviously, available for free but has fewer functions.
- Every operator is fully multithreaded
- Tons of new operators, featuring things like a granular solver, cloth, rope, proper path follow, DLA growth, constraints, etc.
- Spline operator and a super-fast spline meshing modifier for converting particle trajectories/neighbors/constraints/etc into spline meshes
- Up-to-date PhysX support
- Voronoi fracture, brick fracture, boolean fracture, convex decomosition, etc, built-in
- All of PFlow’s terrible O(n^2) operations that make it totally unusable for productions have been properly accelerated (mesh collisions, nearest neighbor searches, surface lock/bond, etc)
- No more hidden PFlow operator/event nodes in the scene to manage, each flow is fully self-contained
- Tons of extra control has been added to all the base operators, and each operator has timing activation control
- A C# script operator that executes nearly as fast as native c++ and that supports multithreaded scripts
- VRay instance rendering support, GPU instancing in the viewport (easily display 100s of millions of polys in the view no problem)
- Super-fast auto-caching, similar to how Houdini caches things on the fly
- PhoenixFD grid support, PRT import/export
- Simulation retiming
- A custom file caching system that is often hundreds/thousands of times smaller in file size than alternative systems like xMesh
- And much, much more!
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