RealFlow2012 to Grasshopper

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 9, 2013 at 5:14am

Even the Rhino importer doesn't work on modern RealFlow files any more.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Herbig on April 9, 2013 at 5:48am

hmm..shit.

is there a way to get each particle of realflow in a rhino-point?

maybe indirect with the help of 3ds, processing or something like that?!

I don't need the mesh, the particles are enough.

thanks.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 9, 2013 at 6:11am

I have no idea what the export capabilities of RealFlow currently are, nor what fileformats it uses these days. I was just about able to find the extensions of file format on their webpage, but not a file format spec.

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Michael Herbig on April 9, 2013 at 11:51am

I can export as:

- Particle Cach (*.bin)

- Particle Proxy (*.pxy)

- Krakatoa Particle File Format (*.prt)

- Particle sequence (*.pd)

- Particle sequence (*.asc)

- Particle sequence (*.pdc)

I will try to find a solution maybe by using ghowl and maya.

Permalink Reply by Aaron Ho on May 7, 2014 at 6:33am

you can export the particles as .asc file and then change the extension .asc to .txt.

Then import the .txt file into excel and save it as a comma delineated .csv file.

Grasshopper can then read .csv file.

Permalink Reply by Jurgis on March 21, 2014 at 5:16am

you can create mesh in realflow, adjust the size of single mesh around the particle. then use realflow importoer for rhino. You have multiple meshes. use grasshoper to get point on every single mesht. and there you go