Liquid Simulation Plugin for DAZ
GPU Liquid Simulation for DAZ Studio 4 & 6 — Real-Time OpenCL Fluid Physics, Skin Collision, Anisotropic Meshing & Iray Material Studio
Simulate, preview, and bake realistic 3D liquids directly inside DAZ Studio! Powered by a high-speed GPU OpenCL Position Based Fluids (PBF) engine and Anisotropic Thin-Film Marching Cubes mesher, this plugin brings dynamic water streams, shower sprays, viscous honey, dripping blood, sticky slime, splashes, and skin-hugging liquid flows to Genesis 8, 8.1, 9, and any 3D prop — complete with 10 physics presets, 10 Iray material shaders, custom surface emitters, and 1-click static prop snapshots. Compatible with DAZ Studio 4 & 6!
Tired of static, pre-sculpted liquid props that never match your character's pose, clip through anatomy, or look frozen and artificial in animations?
Meet GPU Liquid Simulation — the first true, hardware-accelerated 3D fluid dynamics and surface meshing plugin built natively for DAZ Studio 4 (64-bit) and DAZ Studio 6.25+ Beta.
Instead of struggling with complex external software like Houdini or Blender just to pour water, blood, honey, or oil over a posed character, GPU Liquid Simulation lets you do it all directly inside the DAZ Studio viewport in seconds. Aim the interactive 3D emitter gizmo (or turn any mesh/surface in your scene into a liquid source), watch the fluid collide, splash, cling, and drip down your character's body in real time, and generate a smooth, high-resolution 3D mesh ready for NVIDIA Iray and Filament rendering!
★ GPU-ACCELERATED OPENCL FLUID ENGINE (WITH CPU FALLBACK)
• High-performance Position Based Fluids (PBF) solver running directly on your GPU via OpenCL (supports NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics cards, with automatic multi-threaded CPU fallback).
• Simulates tens of thousands of interacting fluid particles in milliseconds per frame, complete with incompressibility, XSPH viscosity, surface tension cohesion, and organic droplet breakup.
★ ANISOTROPIC THIN-FILM SURFACE MESHER (MARCHING CUBES + TAUBIN SMOOTHING)
• Say goodbye to blobby "golf-ball" metaballs! Our GPU-accelerated anisotropic field evaluation stretches fluid kernels along velocity vectors and flattens them across collision surfaces.
• Produces sleek, continuous liquid streams, delicate sheet waterfalls, organic surface-tension tendrils, fine droplets, and smooth skin-wetting films.
• Built-in Taubin volume-preserving smoothing eliminates voxel stepping while keeping droplets crisp and detailed.
★ FULL CHARACTER & PROP COLLISION WITH SKIN ADHESION
• Automatically detects Genesis figures (Genesis 8, 8.1, 9, 3, 2) and scene props inside the simulation domain.
• Adjustable Skin Adhesion (Wetting) and Surface Friction allow liquids to cling to anatomical curves, wrap around shoulders, chests, and limbs, and slowly drip down skin rather than bouncing off like rubber balls.
★ DUAL DAZ STUDIO ENGINE SUPPORT (DAZ 4 & DAZ 6)
• Native 64-bit C++ plugins included for both DAZ Studio 4.12+ (`dsp_liquidsim_dz4.dll`) and DAZ Studio 6.25+ Beta (`dsp_liquidsim_dz6.dll`, Qt6 / Filament / Iray).
• Zero-lag timeline playback: engineered with a pre-allocated dynamic topology pool so you can scrub and play baked fluid animations on the DAZ Studio timeline smoothly.
★ 4 EMISSION MODES & 8 VERSATILE EMITTER SHAPES
• 4 Emission Modes:
1. Continuous Stream — steady, uninterrupted pouring or spraying.
2. Single Splash / Burst — instant high-volume splash impact or water bomb.
3. Pulsing Drops — rhythmic, cohesive falling droplets and spurt bursts.
4. Water Gun Jet (Focused Stream) — tight, high-pressure laminar beam with organic micro-pulsing.
• 8 Emitter Shapes:
1. Jet Nozzle (Round Stream) — classic circular faucet, hose, or pour spout.
2. Sphere Blob / Drop — omnidirectional or directional spherical liquid mass.
3. Wide Sheet / Waterfall — flat ribbon curtain for waterfalls and wide pours.
4. Selected Scene Mesh / Surface — bind ANY object, prop, or character material zone (e.g., hands, lips, blade, cup, showerhead) to emit liquid directly from its 3D triangles!
5. Shower / Rain Grid (Multi-Jet Disc) — 37 concentric micro-nozzles for realistic showerheads and rain clouds.
6. Volume Vessel / Water Bomb — dense 3D liquid volume for dramatic splashes.
7. Radial Burst 360 (Splash Ring) — outward 360-degree planar shockwave splash.
8. Ring Crown / Swirling Vortex — helical spinning fountain and crown splash.
★ 10 BUILT-IN FLUID PHYSICS PRESETS + CUSTOM PRESET MANAGER
Switch fluid behavior instantly with one click, or save/delete your own custom presets:
1. Pure Water (Smooth Stream & Splash)
2. Water Gun Jet (Focused High-Pressure Beam)
3. Heavy Rain Drops (Cohesive Pulsing Droplets)
4. Gentle Shower Spray (Multi-Nozzle Rain Grid)
5. Viscous Blood / Syrup (Slow Skin Drips)
6. Thick Honey / Amber Gel (Dense Laminar Flow)
7. Sticky Bio Slime / Ooze (Elastic Tendrils)
8. Silky Body Oil / Lotion (Glossy Skin Film)
9. Heavy Water Bomb (Massive Volume Collapse)
10. Swirling Crown Fountain (360 Vortex Ring)
★ 10 ONE-CLICK IRAY UBER & OPENGL MATERIAL SHADERS
Instantly dress your liquid mesh in physically tuned refractive, subsurface, metallic, or emissive shaders:
• Pure Water (Crystal-clear refractive IOR 1.333 water)
• Viscous Blood (Deep crimson translucent hemoglobin shader)
• Honey / Amber Gel (Golden refractive nectar with warm absorption)
• Bio Slime / Ooze (Vibrant toxic green translucent gel)
• Milk / Heavy Cream (Rich opaque/subsurface dairy shader)
• Body Oil / Sheen (High-gloss golden cosmetic oil)
• Molten Gold (Liquid metallic reflective gold)
• Black Latex / Oil (Ultra-glossy dark crude oil / liquid latex)
• Red Ruby Wine (Deep translucent burgundy vintage wine)
• Neon Plasma Glow (Self-illuminating sci-fi/fantasy glowing fluid)
★ LIVE INTERACTIVE VIEWPORT PREVIEW, TIMELINE BAKING & STATIC PROP SNAPSHOTS
• Start Live Preview (Viewport): Watch particles flow and collide in real time at 30 FPS while moving/rotating the emitter gizmo or tweaking physics sliders!
• Fast Particle Preview on Timeline: Bake a rapid particle pass across the timeline to verify motion timing in seconds.
• Bake Liquid Mesh to Timeline: Generate the full animated 3D surface mesh across your timeline frames.
• Snapshot Current Frame to Static Prop: Found the perfect splash frame? Click once to extract it into an independent static 3D Prop (`Liquid Mesh Snapshot`) with materials applied — combine dozens of frozen splashes in a single still render!
QUICK 3-STEP WORKFLOW:
1. CREATE & AIM THE EMITTER
Open `Window -> Panes (Tabs) -> Liquid Simulation (GPU)` and click "Create Emitter" (or select any prop/surface and click "Use Selected Node / Surface"). Position and rotate the emitter in the 3D Viewport using standard DAZ gizmos.
2. CHOOSE FLUID PHYSICS & PREVIEW
Pick one of the 10 Fluid Presets (e.g., "Pure Water", "Gentle Shower Spray", "Thick Honey", or "Water Gun Jet"). Click "Start Live Preview (Viewport)" to test the flow interactively.
3. BAKE MESH & APPLY IRAY SHADER
Click "2. Bake Liquid Mesh to Timeline" (or "Snapshot Current Frame to Static Prop" for still renders) and click any shader in the Material Library ("Pure Water", "Viscous Blood", "Honey", etc.). Hit Render in NVIDIA Iray!
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & COMPATIBILITY:
• Operating System: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
• Software:
- DAZ Studio 4.12 – 4.23+ (64-bit)
- DAZ Studio 6.25+ Beta (64-bit)
• Hardware:
- Any OpenCL 1.2+ capable GPU (NVIDIA GeForce / RTX, AMD Radeon, Intel Arc) for hardware acceleration, or multi-core CPU (automatic CPU fallback included).
• Compatible Figures & Props:
- Genesis 9, Genesis 8 / 8.1, Genesis 3 / 2, and any 3D figure, creature, vehicle, or environment prop in DAZ Studio.
• Render Engines:
- NVIDIA Iray, Filament PBR, and OpenGL Viewport.
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