Loading Bin from Realflow

[ruffstuff]

I should be able to load a realflow bin into the PRT loader of Krakatoa right? When I pick the first .bin file in the sequence, nothing seems to show up. The file availibility graph shows all red?

Am I doing something wrong here?

Fred

[Bobo]

@ruffstuff

I should be able to load a realflow bin into the PRT loader of Krakatoa right? When I pick the first .bin file in the sequence, nothing seems to show up. The file availibility graph shows all red?

Am I doing something wrong here?

Fred

Tricky to tell. Just a note that the Realflow developers in all their wisdom used the same .BIN extension for both particle and mesh files (only difference is what folder RealFlow saves them to and, of course, the file format itself ) But I am sure you are loading the particle .BIN files, you have longer experience with RealFlow than me…

BUT

RealFlow files have another caveat, documented here:
franticfilms.com/software/su … format.php

When RealFlow saves particle files, it appends the digits immediately after the emitter name. This can produce files like Circle0100014.bin, which Krakatoa will interpret as at frame 100014 rather than at frame 14.

* One possible precaution measure to avoid this is adding an underscore after the emitter's name in RealFlow, for example Circle01_ will output Circle01_00014.bin and will cause no problems in Krakatoa.
* If the BIN files have already been saved without a trailing underscore, you can load the BIN sequence in a Krakatoa PRT Loader and use the Offset field to shift the animation by as many frames as needed. In the above example, entering 100000 in the Offset field will play frame 100000 on frame 0, causing the file Circle0100014.bin to be loaded correctly on frame 14. Then you can resave the particles to a new PRT or BIN sequence using Krakatoa with correct names with underscore at the end, or just use the original sequence with the Offset as is.