Development Notes #58 – 2020 to 2021 Development Video
Our 2020/2021 video covering the past year of development is now online! We have also started a new development project.
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Weekly Development Notes #57 – Adding support for the Apple Silicon M1 Chip
Recent work mainly involved adding support for the Apple M1 Chip, and we're looking for feedback.
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Weekly Development Notes #56 – Solving Issues Video, Blender 3.0, and Cycles-X Testing
The last two weeks of development mainly involved catching up on fixing reported bugs. We also released a new video...
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Weekly Development Notes #55 – New Geometry Attribute Features
I was able to clean up and optimize some code to add proper attribute based shading feature implementations using Blender's...
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Weekly Development Notes #54 – New APIC Solver in FLIP Fluids 1.0.9b
It was quite a busy last week with the release of FLIP Fluids 1.0.9b and the Blender Market Spring Sale,...
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Weekly Development Notes #53 – New stable version next week!
Last week was more testing and minor fixes. Just a small update today (and two days earlier than normal) as...
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Weekly Development Notes #52 – Blender 2.93 Geometry Attributes
Similar to the last update, the past week's work mainly involve a lot of testing to get ready for the...
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Weekly Development Notes #51 – Experimental Version Testing
Last week's work mostly involved testing the latest experimental version to prepare the addon to be as stable as possible...
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Weekly Development Notes #50 – Collision Handling Improvements
A nice improvement is that we were able to find a fix for a simulation stability bug that could cause...
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Weekly Development Notes #49 – Viscosity Solver Improvements
Last weeks development seemed quite productive! I was able to finish up some large structural changes for how particles are...
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Weekly Development Notes #48 – Three years since the FLIP Fluids addon beta!
Last week's work mainly involved updating how our simulation engine manages and stores fluid particles (More info in dev notes...
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Weekly Development Notes #47 – Reworking Our Fluid Particle System
Last week's work mostly involved starting a re-write of our simulation engine's fluid particle system. We'll cover that in this...
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Weekly Development Notes #46 – FLIP Fluids 1.0.9a maintenance update
Last week's development mainly involved testing the FLIP Fluids 1.0.9a release candidate, some development of the in-progress turbulence force field,...
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Weekly Development Notes #45 – FLIP Fluids 1.0.9a maintenance update next week
Next week we'll be releasing a stable maintenance version update, FLIP Fluids 1.0.9a, that includes bug fixes and improvements since...
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Weekly Development Notes #44 – Turbulence With Curl Noise
It has been a productive last week. I have finished prototyping an idea for implementing curl noise as part of...
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Weekly Development Notes #43 – Three New Example Scenes
My last week of development mainly involved catching up on what I've missed over the Winter holiday break and finishing...
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Weekly Development Notes #42 – See you in the new year!
I'll be on winter break during December 17th 2020 - January 3rd 2021. It's been another fantastic year of development,...
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Weekly Development Notes #41 – Three new example scenes coming soon!
This will just be a brief update as it's been a busy past few weeks with preparing and releasing FLIP...
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Weekly Development Notes #40 – FLIP Fluids Version 1.0.9 is now available!
It's been a busy few weeks getting ready for the new FLIP Fluids version 1.0.9 release: testing, updating documentation, and...
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Weekly Development Notes #39 – Experimenting and Testing!
The experimental versions of the addon are testing very well in both our testing and from user feedback. We are...
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Weekly Development Notes #38 – Vortex Fields, Resolution Upscaling, and Bug Fixes
Last week's development mainly involved bug fixes, initial experimentation with a vortex force field, and a new feature that allows...
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Weekly Development Notes #37 – New Guide: Mastering Bubbles, Spray, and Foam
Part two of our whitewater guide is now online! This video will help you understand how to setup the simulator...
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Weekly Development Notes #36 – UI Organization and Noise Generation
ast week's development mainly involved learning and implementing some 3D noise generation techniques as port of an in-progress turbulence force...
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Weekly Development Notes #35 – Override Frame Feature and Bug Fixes
I didn't expect on having enough changes in the addon to warrant a new experimental release ready for this week,...
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Weekly Development Notes #34 – More Workflow Features for the Helper Menu
Over the last week I have decided to finally get around to adding some requested workflow features. Some that have...
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Weekly Development Notes #33 – Simple Performance Optimizations
Lately I have noticed some areas in the simulator where I could make some simple modifications to improve performance, and...
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Weekly Development Notes #32 – Curve Guided Force Fields
Last week's development mainly involved completing our curve guided force field feature - a feature that I've been very...
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Weekly Development Notes #31 – The 2020 Customer Reel is now live!
Last week was great for development productivity. And today is a very exciting day for us, as we have completed...
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Weekly Development Notes #30 – Cache update is now complete!
It's been quite a productive past week and I have completed our transition to storing exported Blender scene data in...
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Weekly Development Notes #29 – Customer Reel 2020: Coming Soon!
I had a first look at the finished Customer Reel result, and oh my, I was absolutely blown away!
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Weekly Development Notes #28 – We’re messing around with the cache again
The Blender Market Summer Sale took place last week and development mainly consisted of handling Q&A for sales questions and...
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Weekly Development Notes #27 – Blender Market 25% Off Summer Sale
Last week's work mainly involved catching up on what I've missed over the past three weeks away, but I still...
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Weekly Development Notes #26 – Blender Market Donation Drive and Vacation Notice
In this post I'll cover the Blender Market fundraiser, as well as my (Ryan) notice of a well needed vacation...
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Weekly Development Notes #25 – Experimental Force Field Builds Are Now Available
Last week's development mainly involved preparing for our first experimental release of our upcoming force field feature set: adding a...
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Weekly Development Notes #24 – Experimental Force Field Builds Starting Next Week!
Next week we will be starting to release weekly experimental builds of our work-in-progress force field feature set, and that...
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Weekly Development Notes #23 – Customer Support and Fixing Usability Issues
Last week's development almost entirely involved handing customer support. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the workload during last...
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Weekly Development Notes #22 – Debugging, Optimizing, and Testing Volume Forces
In this post, I'll detail how we optimized the engine and simulation setup to reduce baking time of a volume...
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Weekly Development Notes #21 – Volume Force Fields
Last week's work mainly involved finishing up our surface force field mode as well as starting work on our volume...
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Weekly Development Notes #20 – Stabilizing Force Fields
Last week was a four day work week due to a holiday here, but it was still a productive week....
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Weekly Development Notes #19 – Approximating Signed Distance Fields
The last two weeks mainly involved testing methods for approximating signed distance fields, and that is what I will cover...
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Weekly Development Notes #18 – Our two year birthday!
In this post I'll be covering last week's Blender Market sale, Dennis' latest compositing tests, and the latest development on...
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Weekly Development Notes #17 – Organizing the UI and the Blender Market Spring Sale
Last week's development mostly involved reading and brushing up on some simulation concepts, adding some tweaks to the UI, force...
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Weekly Development Notes #16 – Vortex Simulation, Blender Market Spring Sale
In this post, I'll cover the 2020 Blender Market Spring Sale, a simple setup to create a vortex effect, and...
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About Inflow & Outflow
Hey this is Dennis! We are working on new learning videos for you. This time the 2nd video (part 2/2)...
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Weekly Development Notes #15 – Call for Content: 2020 Customer Reel
In this post, we're calling for content submissions for our 2020 FLIP Fluids Customer Reel. Send your submissions to support[at]flipfluids.com...
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Weekly Development Notes #14 – Limitations of the FLIP Fluids addon
In this post, I'll cover an important topic that is the limitations of the FLIP Fluids addon.
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Weekly Development Notes #13 – Visualizing Force Fields
In this post I'll be covering visual debugging and our new tutorial series for Blender 2.8.
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About Domain, Fluid and Obstacle
Hey this is Dennis! We are working on new learning videos for you. This time the 2nd video (part 1/2)...
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Weekly Development Notes #12 – Surface Force Fields
The next addon version 1.0.9 will include our force field feature and is set to be released in June or...
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Weekly Development Notes #11 – Safely updating the FLIP Fluids addon and fluids that buckle, fold, and coil
Last week on Wednesday we released version 1.0.8 of the FLIP Fluids addon which fixed many bugs and usability issues....
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Weekly Development Notes #10 – FLIP Fluids addon v1.0.8 release!
In this post I'll provide detailed release notes on the new FLIP Fluids v1.0.8 as well as what is coming...
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Weekly Development Notes #9 – Workflow for iterating quickly on settings and the next FLIP Fluids release
In this post I'll add some notes and workflow tips about an animation posted earlier today, and cover what to...
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Weekly Development Notes #8 – Using savestates in your workflow and Blender 2.82 Mantaflow release
In this post, I'll detail how some of the FLIP Fluids workflow features used in our Valentine's Day animation, as...
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Weekly Development Notes #7 – Bug Fixes and Caching Improvements
Covering the week of February 3rd – 7th, 2020. Hey everyone, this is Ryan here with this week’s development update...
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Weekly Development Notes #6 – The most important documentation topics
Covering the week of January 27th – 31st, 2020. Hey everyone, this is Ryan with the week #6 development update...
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Weekly Development Notes #5 – Two Minute Papers episode featuring FLIP Fluids
Covering the week of January 20th – 24th, 2020. This is Ryan with the week #5 development update! Two Minute...
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Weekly Development Notes #4 – Perfectly contained fluids
Covering the week of January 13th – 17th, 2020. Ryan here, and welcome to this week’s development notes! I had...
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Weekly Development Notes #3 – How are solid obstacles computed within the simulator?
Covering the week of January 6th – 10th, 2020. Happy New Year! This is Ryan with our first development update...
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Weekly Development Notes #2 – Improving world scaling workflow
Covering the week of December 16th – 20th, 2019. Hello, this is Ryan here and welcome to this week’s development...
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Weekly Development Notes #1
Covering the week of December 9th – 13th, 2019. Hi, this is Ryan here, a developer of the FLIP Fluids...