Ionic Beta 0.3 with no expiration date

Hi!!
it's been a while! Some good news and some bad news, first the bad one, I've been really busy at work so I couldn't do too much for Ionic, that's why this version is more or less the same than before with some small new features. Now for the good news, I've decided to keep Ionic free, so no more expiry date. :)

Please remember you have to register to download the plugin, have fun!

 http://ionic.forumotion.co.uk/t49-ionic-beta-03

New Ionic version and video

Hi!
I just uploaded a new version of Ionic you can download here:
ionic.forumotion.co.uk/t30-ionic-beta-021

This is the last sim I did (Sim in Maya, render in Houdini), 400 frames simulated (around 4hrs), although I rendered around 250. I'd love to simulate many more particles, but I guess I'll have problems meshing & render them with my 8 gigs of ram, so for now I'll limit my sims to just around 10 millions :)
Hope you like it!

Ionic Render with Houdini

Hi!

This is one of the scenes I included with Ionic ( get it here: ionic.forumotion.co.uk/ )
I exported the particles to bgeo format and mesh creation and render in Houdini with Mantra. I'd like to change some things in the sim but anyway, it's cool to see it rendered instead of just points :)
Many thanks to Igor Zanic and Srdjan Milosevic for their help with Houdini!
Hope you like it!
Tony

Ionic Beta 0.1 Download

Hi!!

I've finally released an open beta for Ionic. It will be free until the end of the year, then I'll see what I can do with it. I'd like to make a commercial product but for it I have to able to give the right support. But for now... enjoy!
I've written a .bin (realflow) and .bgeo(Houdini) exporters so you can render or mesh the particles with your favorite software.

I've setup a simple forum so you can ask for new features, report bugs, show your works and download new versions. You can get the beta there.

http://ionic.forumotion.co.uk/


Tony Ambles

Ionic Maya Demo

Hi,
I've been busy lately but I've been working in the plugin stability, as I'm planning to release a demo at the end of october.
In this video you can see a very simple demo of how Ionic works in Maya, just to give you an idea of speed and UI. The video compression make things look a bit weird, though.
Stay tuned! ;O)

Lighthouse test

32 millions of particles, 600 frames, 4h 30m

Now the plugin supports Maya Fields, there's one field at the beginning creating some turbulence and then pushing the water a couple of times during the sim.
By the way, this is all in one pass, all the splashes comes directly from the simulation.