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VxParticles brings your simulations alive with a robust particle system that simulates the natural behaviour of fluid flow, fire, smoke dispersal, dust trails, explosions and more. Particles interact realistically with vehicles, objects, and among themselves to put physics-based effects into your virtual world.

VxParticles can be used to simulate physical effects such as splashing water, dust and smoke. They are fully integrated in a Vortex world and interact with rigid bodies.

Transform Your Simulations with Vortex Particle Effects

The VxParticles module gives developers a flexible real-time particle system that transforms synthetic environments with natural phenomena. VxParticles seamlessly supports the bi-directional interaction between particles and rigid bodies, and includes smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) methods for visual simulation of floating bodies and fluid flow in channels or enclosures. Fully integrated within the Vortex virtual world, VxParticles accurately exchange forces with rigid bodies for full simulation of body-particle interactions.

Adding realistic effects, such as stirring up mud from the seabed, is easy with VxParticles.

An Intuitive and Powerful Physics-based System

VxParticles provides an intuitive API for creating and managing simulated particle effects and all related components, substantially extending simple visual particle systems. The module manages particles as a set of rigid bodies and constraints, organizing them into grids or structures to optimize processing time for collision detection and particle interaction. You can also easily model interactive particles for advanced applications such as the physics of wake from amphibious vehicles, including hull buoyancy. VxParticles also respond to forces such as gravity, damping, wind, and current fields.

Sample VxParticles Applications

Augment your visual simulations with multiple environmental and man-made Vortex particle effects like:

• Fluid flow in enclosures and channels
• Fluid spray, splash and displacement from vehicles
• Fire and smoke spreading within enclosures or outside exteriors
• Bulk material handling such as pouring concrete or earth-moving
• Explosions and debris
• Dust trails from vehicles
• Dispersal of gases
• Floating subsea detritus and stirred-up sand and mud from the seabed