Maya DMM to Realflow

[happymat27]

Hi,

is there a workflow that I can use to get my animated simulation into Realflow?

I would like to have a bottle smash and it's contents spill, the bottle smash bit is no problem but I'd like to use RF for the liquid sim and I can't work out how to get my DMM object into it.

I see that there are videos on youtube and vimeo that demonstrate this so it must be possible.

Anyone out there able to help?

Thanks,

Mat

[frescalus]

Its a pain in the rear workflow but I did it myself with my milk sim...
there's a tool somewhere on this forum that will let you select the pieces and they will copy them into animated geometry that you can then take into realflow.
Its a bit tedious but the payoff is great.
Otherwise, you'd have to copy the output mesh, and then let realflow do all of the dynamics...

[happymat27]

Thanks frescalus,

I was trying to bake the simulation which is just a daft idea really and have since discovered a working methodology, to remove DMM from the equation after simulation, and it works a treat.

- Select output mesh
- Export as .obj
- Create geoCache from output mesh
- Open new scene and import .obj
- Apply geoCache
- Export as .sd

Happy days,

Mat

[frescalus]

ok that works too lol I'll try that next time....thanks mat