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3D Aliens Invites the Public to Beta Test Glu3D
Posted by: amigo
Source: email
 Date: Tue Dec 16 2003
Glu3D is a complete plug-in system that makes easy animating liquids in Discreet's 3dsmax and Alias Maya. This plug-in has now entered public beta phase and everyone is invited to participate in its testing.
3ds max version is available on the website while Maya version (Windows and Linux) is available upon request - email is below.

Some of the features are:

- Particle based dynamic engine that automatically animates liquids that interact with surrounding geometry
- Triangle mesh surface sequence is generated to visualize liquid surface
- Fully integrated in 3dsmax environment in order to simplify production workflow
- File cache system to store pre-calculated dynamics results
- Crowd object. A sample object is instanced at every particle position
- Motion blur
- Wet maps
- Texture mapping
- Arbitrary planar shapes as sources
- Fill objects function to speed up scene initial condition setup
- Friendly customizable UI full of shortcuts, menus and toolbar buttons.

3D Aliens have some videotutorials on their website that showcase basic functionality of Glu3D, and for your advice, comments and suggestions they have opened a Forum where you can make postings about it.

Related Links:
3D Aliens website
3D Aliens Forum
Glu3D beta maya plugin request


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