Phoenix FD vs RealFlow Comparison

by Hammer Chen

	Realflow 2015	PhoenixFD 2.2 official build
Developer	Next limit	Chaos Group
price	1995€ *	921.5USD without Dongle *
Package	Standalone software + Connectivity Plugins or REALFLOW for CINEMA 4D	Phoenix FD for 3ds Max or Maya
UI	Standard UI + node-based Relationship Editor	Tabs and rollouts
Sim Methods	SPH FLIP (Hybrido)	Grid-based
Fluid solver selections	-DYVERSO solvers	3 Conservation 4 Material Transfer
multi-threading sim	YES	YES
GPU acceleration	solvers	viewport preview
Network simulation	YES, Independent Domain Of Computation
Sim capability	-Small scale liquid and splashs -Large scale ocean, waves and splashs - foam, bubbles and mist	-Small scale liquid and splashs -Large scale ocean, waves and splashs -foam, bubbles -Non-Newtonian
Physical Properties	- Surface tension - Density - Viscosity - Vorticity - Int Pressure, Ext Pressure - Compressibility	-Surface Tension -Viscosity (normalized to 0~1) -Vorticity
Dynamics	- Rigid body (Caronte solver) - Soft body - Fibers	passive rigid body interaction only
Emitter	- Circle, square, sphere, linear - Object	-PHXSource (supporting shape and mesh)
Emission type	- Speed - fill object	-Inject -Brush -initial fill up
Specialized Force / Daemon	-Shetter Daemon -DSpline daemon -Crown daemon -Layered Vortex Daemon -k Isolated, k volume, k speed Daemon -Morph, Magic Daemon -Filter Daemon -Attractor	-PHXTurbulence
3rd Party  Plug-ins	-Wet Work -loSim -RF_toolfactory
Ocean Mesh	Realwave + spectrum...etc	Automatic mesh extension inside of camera frustum + PhoenixFDOceanTex vector displacement
Stepping control	Min and Max Substeps	Steps per frame
Retime	Time function curve editor	Resimulation
Mesher control	- Speed stretching - polygon size - metaballs, Weighted isotropic and Weighted Anisotropic -Filter: thinning, relaxation, tension, steps	-Preview / Show mesh -Mode: mesh, ocean, cap, implicit surface and geometry atomosphere -sampler type: box, linear, spherical
Mesh optimization	Curvature / Camera	Output / storage quality
Import	sd, obj, abc, bin...etc	- all 3dsMax /Maya suport formats -PRT loader -vdb, f3d
Export	abc, bin, obj...etc	-PhoenixFD export particles / prt
Renderer	Maxwell

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