Greetings,

I've just finished the first cut of the Real Flow particle import SOP
plugin and it is available now for download. There's also a simple
example you can download showing one method of importing the particles
and copying metaballs to points.

All attributes generated in Real Flow are imported and may be used just
like any attribute in Houdini, I'll have examples of more elaborate use
of these attributes soon.

Here's the URL
http//www.digitalcinemaarts.com/dev/real_flow/index.html

The next phase of the project will be an exporter to generate Real Flow
.sd scene files from Houdini geometry. This will the allow the artist
to generate fluid simulations using geometry created in Houdini and then
import the resulting particles back into Houdini for additional
processing.

The final phase will be a mesh importer to import meshes generated in
Real Flow and a particle exporter to allow importing of Houdini
particles into Real Flow.

Many thanks to Doug Struthers and Victor Gonzalez for their help and
support on this project!

Please send any bug reports to me.
Enjoy!


–Mark