Listed here is a full list of components and features in RealFlow 5, including the RealFlow RenderKit.
Also see RealFlow Product Sheet and What´s New in RealFlow 5.

• RealFlow GUI: a software application to set up and simulate your scenes
• RealFlow Node: a software application to simulate your scenes
• RealFlow RenderKit: a set of software tools to render simulation data
• License Manager: a software application to handle licenses
• RealFlow Job Manager: a software application to control simulation jobs
• Plug-ins: connect RealFlow with the most popular 3D packages

• Liquids
• Particle-based liquids
• Grid-based liquids
• Hybrido technology
• Large scales
• Coupling particle-based and grid-based liquids
• Splash
• Foam
• Particle-based
• Texture-based
• Mist
• Statistical spectrum displacement
• Multi-threaded
• Gases
• Particle-based thermal and iso-thermal gases
• Elastics
• Fibers
• Particle emitters
• Circle
• Square
• Sphere
• Linear
• Triangle
• Spline
• Cylinder
• Bitmap
• Object
• Fill
• Binary Loader
• NBinary Loader
• Container
• Bodies
• Caronte Body Dynamics Solver
• Rigid bodies
• Collision primitives: cube, sphere, convex hull and mesh
• State-of-the-art stacking
• Multi-threaded
• Soft bodies
• Free-form deformation based
• Efficient for high polygon-count meshes
• Permanent deformation
• Multi-threaded
• Joints
• Automatic creation and break
• Ability to connect rigid-rigid, rigid-soft and soft-soft bodies
• Permanent deformation
• Fluid surfaces (RealWave)
• Statistical spectrum wave for the generation of realistic oceans
• Control points wave
• Fractal wave
• Spectrum wave
• Gerstner wave
• SDK built wave
• Export as a displacement texture
• Object splash
• Crest splash
• Depth texture
• Downstream
• Custom geometry
• MultiBody nodes
• For efficient handling of scenes with many objects
• Meshes
• Standard mesh
• Metaballs
• Micro-polygons
• Cloning objects
• Camera level of detail
• Camera, objects and RealWave clipping
• Texture based on particle attributes or particle UV
• Tension and relaxation filters
• Camera and geometry clipping
• Optimized curvature and camera-based
• Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
• RFRK mesh (RealFlow RenderKit)
• Multi-threaded
• Field Types (Metaballs or Spheres)
• Auto polygon size
• Texture based on particle attributes or particle UV
• Tension and relaxation filters
• Camera, objects and RealWave© clipping
• Optimize curvature and camera-based
• Particle attributes transferred to the mesh
• Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
• Grid mesh
• Able to create mesh mixing a grid-based and a particle-based fluid
• Texture, Y-planar projection, UV particle and fluid average velocity
• Tension and relaxation filters
• Optimized curvature and camera-based
• Built-in Glsl and custom shaders
• Cameras
• Import/export from/to major 3D platforms
• Link target
• CrowdFlow plugin
• Flocks
• Swarms
• "Follow the leader"
• Morph plugin
• Improves on the built-in Magic daemon
• Filter daemon
• Transfer particles from one emitter to another based on particle attributes
• Sheeter daemon
• Auto-fill areas with low resolution to create thin sheets of fluid.
• External forces
• Gravity
• Attractor
• Daemon spline
• Wind
• Vortex
• Layered vortex
• Limbo
• Tractor
• Coriolis
• Ellipsoid
• Drag
• Surface tension
• Noise
• Heater
• Magic
• Object
• SDK built forces
• Initial state
• Simulation passes
• Fluid dynamics
• Bodies dynamics
• Python SDK
• Commands
• Batch
• Simulation Events
• Forces
• Particle solvers
• Waves
• Version 2.6.2
• C++ SDK
• Commands
• Batch
• Simulation Events
• Forces
• Particle solvers
• Waves
• Job managers
• Customizable GUI
• Tree layout
• UI dark and light color scheme
• Commands tool bars
• Change predefined layouts by using keyboard shortcuts
• Computation distributed over a network
• IDOC (Independent Domain of Computation) nodes
• Send jobs by using an open plug-in architecture
• Job manager built-in panel to browse the jobs status
• Browse the job status using a standard internet browser
• On-line help system
• Global search
• Parameter context help
• Node context help
• Scene import/export as XML format
• Textures
• Displacement maps
• Wet/dry
• Texture based parameters (interaction maps)
• UV Mapping
• UV from particle
• UV sprite
• Speed
• Pressure
• Temperature
• Fluid average velocity
• Preview
• One-click generation of a preview video/sequence of files
• Movie player
• tga, bmp, jpg and png sequences
• Write out avi files
• Real time play
• Curve and expressions editor
• TCB, bezier, linear and stepped curves
• Pre- and post- curve behavior
• Tangent tools (break, unify and flat)
• Copy/paste control points
• Multi-curve editing
• Save/load curves to/from crv and xml formats
• Snap tools
• Align tools
• Import MXS (Maxwell Render) format
• Predefined or user defined OpenGL shaders
• Multi-platform
• Linux
• Windows
• MacOS
• 32/64bits
• Multi-threaded
• Export simulation data to most popular 3D packages
• Autodesk Maya
• Autodesk 3ds Max
• Houdini
• Autodesk Softimage
• LightWave 3D
• Cinema4D

• RFRK_Mesher: Generates fluid surface meshes from RealFlow particles.
• Core/Splash filter
• Boolean operations including merging with RealWave surface
• Motion blur
• Particle attributes transferred to the mesh
• Low memory consumption
• Multi-threaded
• Tension and relaxation filters
• Optimization
• Clipping
• Smoothing
• RFRK_Particler: Generates different geometry primitives from RealFlow particles.
• Spheres, cubes, sprites and points
• Multipoint, including control over shape of multipoint cloud
• Core/Splash filter
• Size based on camera and particle attributes
• Motion blur
• Geometry rendered on demand (mentalray only)
• Animation curves to control particle size according to magnitudes
• RFRK_Cloud: a tool for rendering volumetric data
• Uses BIN and MTC RealFlow standard file formats for particles and mist
• Anisotropy and light controls
• RFRK_Displacement: a tool for rendering full 3D displacement maps
• Available for mental ray, RenderMan and Maxwell Render

• Handles RealFlow Renderkit and RealFlow Node licenses in a centralized, unified way
• Visualization of license information through a web browser or telnet
• Multi-platform, Linux and Windows

• Monitoring through a web browser
• Send jobs from RealFlow GUI
• Auto-detection of job nodes
• Jobs persistence
• Multi-platform, Linux, Windows and MacOS

• Autodesk Maya
• Autodesk 3ds Max
• Houdini
• Autodesk Softimage
• LightWave 3D
• Cinema4D