Create Fluid in Realflow by João Felix, Portugal


Illumination, Materials and Render

Let’s start by importing the mesh that we’ve just created.



When we created the new realflow project, it creates a folder with the name of the project. Inside this folder is another one that is called Meshes. Inside it is the mesh. Select the first file and open it.



Click on "Create Mesh" and Voila !!!

Now we are going to arrange our scene. I created a new glass and also created two planes that are going to be our lights. You can see that the illumination is very simple.


Change your rendering engine to maxwell (I think everyone knows how to do that). Create your camera (Maxwell Camera) and now is time to put some materials in the scene. We are going to make the illumination first. We create a new MXM material and the Maxwell Material Editor will open.


When the Maxwell Material Editor opens we click on Basics and we change the material type to Emitter reducing the 1000 Watts to 500W.


The first light is created. Make the exact same thing for the second light but this time use 200W. Until now we have two materials: One light that has 500W and another one with 200W. Let’s apply the 500W light to the plane that is on the side of our scene and the 200W light to the plane that is above our scene.

We are done with illumination. Let’s give the scene its last 3 materials. All the materials are from the MXM Gallery and they are: Wood, Glass and Wine. Now we done everything, just have to click on Render. Here is the final result after some tweaks in Photoshop:



Hope you like this tutorial and have any questions or suggestions then please email me jr2joao@hotmail.com and find attached the scene files Download Now