AquaForge Pro is a liquid simulator for Blender. Pour wine into a glass, drop a cannonball into the sea, spin a whirlpool, run lava down a slope, and render it all in Cycles or EEVEE, with spray, foam and bubbles.

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It's everything in the free AquaForge Lite, plus:

GPU SOLVER

• The whole simulation runs on the graphics card: about 14x faster than the CPU on a gaming laptop (RTX 4050 against its 20-thread i7). A 4-million-particle dam break bakes at a quarter of a second a frame instead of almost four.
• NVIDIA, AMD and Intel graphics through OpenCL, no extra installs. Without a usable GPU it bakes on the CPU by itself.
• Every feature runs on it: viscosity (honey bakes about 13x faster), surface tension, force fields, obstacles, inflows. Same results as the CPU solver.
• Live Preview: the simulation at low resolution in the viewport, as it runs (about 18 frames a second), to check a setup before the real bake.

WHITEWATER

• Spray, foam and bubbles, baked with the liquid wherever it is fast and churning or cresting.
• Foam rides on the surface, spray flies (and follows the wind), bubbles rise.
• Separate sizes and materials for each kind; change the look without baking again.

PHYSICS

• Blender's own force fields push the liquid: Force, Vortex, Turbulence and Wind, with their shape and falloff. Move them or keyframe their strength.
• Surface tension, for drops and small-scale liquid.
• Any Fluid or Inflow can have its own viscosity, so honey and water share one bake.
• Volume correction keeps the liquid's volume over long bakes.

LIBRARIES

• 30 liquid presets, picked from rendered previews: water, pool and sea water, coffee, tea, red wine, beer, cola, orange juice, milk, honey, maple syrup, caramel, chocolate, olive oil, ketchup, cream, yogurt, red/blue/yellow paint, ink, lava, toxic waste, magic potion, slime, blood, mud, mercury and liquid gold. Each sets the viscosity and the surface material.
• 40 ready-made scenes in five groups (kitchen, splashes, water and waves, flows, special), picked from rendered previews: beer pour, chocolate over cake, cannonball, crown splash, boat wake, paddle wheel, whirlpool, wind over water, rain, waterfall, river over rocks, fountain, lava flow, slime drop and many more.

OUTPUT

• Motion blur: the surface carries the liquid's velocity, so Cycles blurs splashes the way they move.
• Vorticity and age attributes for shaders and Geometry Nodes.
• Export Alembic: the surface (with velocity) and the whitewater, every frame.

ALSO IN PRO (AND LITE)

• Fluid from any closed mesh, static and moving obstacles, keyframable inflows and outflows.
• Background baking: keep working while it bakes; pause and resume, even after a crash.
• Bake estimate: particles, memory, disk and time before you bake.
• Resolution up to 400 (Lite: 150).

REQUIREMENTS

• Blender 4.5, 5.1 or 5.2
• Windows 64-bit (macOS and Linux builds are planned)
• A multi-core CPU; for GPU baking, a graphics card with OpenCL 1.2 (any recent NVIDIA, AMD or Intel GPU) and enough video memory for the bake

GOOD TO KNOW

• Fluids, obstacles, inflows and outflows must be closed meshes; obstacles thinner than about two grid cells can let liquid through.
• Force fields accelerate the liquid for as long as they act: small strengths go a long way.
• Surface tension shows at small scale; in a bathtub-sized scene it does almost nothing.
• If AquaForge Lite is installed, disable it, so there's one AquaForge tab.

INCLUDED

• aquaforge-1.0.0.zip (install with Edit › Preferences › Get Extensions › Install from Disk)
• Pro guide and user guide
• Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXHhM9p8Rs
• 12 months of updates and support

LICENSE

GPL-3.0-or-later.