• Alcides Viamontes

  23 days ago

  It works as advertised: beautiful fluids, and the material is just glorious to look at. I'm very pleased with the level of realism that this material and addon add. Also, the setup couldn't be simpler and it's very well documented.

  The main problem with the material is that it slows down Blender considerably, even if one sets all the viewports to wireframe mode, which to me makes no sense whatsoever. I had to go to the file data view in the outliner and completely purge the vortex material from my file, then viewport speed went back to normal.

• Rehtra

  6 months ago

  Great work, but I would know what's the direction of this addon development? I like the addon and hope it can be better in the future.

• Pete Burges

  over 1 year ago

  Perhaps I was not using it correctly- though I followed the tutorials- but in practise, I found that using the shader with the FLIP fluid data was actually a lot slower than simply rendering the fluid itself. In general I am finding that Blender seems able to handle an enormous amount of geometry these days and it's the texture data that slows things down. So while I think Vortex is a great idea, and it definitely works as advertised, it just ended up being less efficient for me in this case- but I will allow that perhaps I missed something.

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  Witting Graphics

  over 1 year ago

  Thank you for the feedback, Pete! To clarify:

  The biggest performance improvement of Vortex does not come from the frame rendering times. Instead, it resolves the problem where baking a fluid at the desired high resolution isn't feasible.

  If your machine can already easily bake fluids at the resolution you are looking for, the benefit of the shader for rendering will be smaller. I hope that explained your situation. Don't hesitate to reach out if you have other questions.
• yudhistira

  over 1 year ago

  Amazing addition to my fluid sim tool set.

• jeongna

  over 1 year ago

  this is insain.. it makes 150 resolution fluid surface just like more than 500 resolution.
  yes it is a game changer.

• Nataliia Hodovana

  over 2 years ago

  Great addon. Thank you

• Neil Guthrie

  almost 3 years ago

  Excellent addon - easy to use, I tried it out with FLIP fluids and had great results within a few hours of buying the addon with the standard settings. Just what I was looking for as it'll let me create much larger fluid sims with a lower mesh resolution but also get detailed water texture.

• jinwoo yoon

  about 3 years ago

  Good addon..

• braj

  over 3 years ago

  I'm giving it five stars because it does what it says, the tutorial video is helpful and there is also written version in the Documentation section here, too rare much of the time. The results after a very fast bake are great for the geometry involved, and makes fluid sims a lot more usable for me. What I would love to see if for this to turn into an addon with fluid sims of different sort set up to quickly get results, like ocean, shoreline, stream, etc. A flowmap painting tool would be wonderful. I'm hoping this matures into a complete and successful water package.

• Jay

  over 3 years ago

  I've only just started using this, but it's going to be a game changer. I love water sims, but to get any good detail requires very large samples, particles for foam, etc. The detail this gives is amazing. I can't wait to have a go at it for a few weeks and really dive into the shaders and parameters.

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