Welcome to HiPhyEngine!#
Give you the tools to create studio quality simulation results in Blender! Developed by a former simulation software developer from Walt Disney Animation Studio, HiPhyEngine is fast, robust, all-in-one multi-physics simulation engine designed for full artistic control without compromising performance. It has many exclusive features that are not available in any other commercial simulators.
Key Features- HiPhyEngine is a fully-coupled high fidelity physics engine. It is capable of simulating rigid body, hair, cloth, soft body in a unified solver while guarantees intersection free! No other commercial simulation engines, in Blender or other packages, have the capability for fully-coupled simulation, or guarantees intersection free simulation.
- HiPhyEngine also comes with a MPM solver that brings snow and sand simulation to blender, which are only previous available in other subscription based softwares!
- With just a one time purchase, you will gain access to simulation features and future updates, that even the most expensive commercial subscription-based production software does have!
Comparison To Blender's Internal Simulation-
Blender uses position-based dynamics with a mass-spring system with discrete collision detection, it is fast, however is less accurate. HiPhyEngine uses finite element discretization with continuous collision detection. HiPhyEngine's simulation result is more physically accurate, and guarantees intersection free, even with complex and multi-layered collisions, and no matter how fast an object is moving, or how thin it is.
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HiPhyEngine's finite element discretization has the benefit of resolution independence. Using lower resolution simulation for iterative parameter tuning in HiPhyEngine will guarantee the same large scale behaviors when increase the simulation resolution.
Here is an inexhaustive list of features of HiPhyEngine that is not available for Blender's internal simulator:
| Features | HiPhyEngine | Blender Internal Solver |
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| Intersection Free Collision |  |
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| Animated Collider De-intersection | |
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| Full Material Coupling | |
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| High Fidelity FEM Discretization | |
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| Anisotropic Cloth Model | |
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| Material Model For Curly Hair | |
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| Gravity Preloading For Hair | |
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| Better Volume Preservation Soft Body | |
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| MPM Snow/Sand simulation | |
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Designed for Performance-
HiPhyEngine is parallelized and vectorized to fully utilize all CPU cores. Even with the complex collisions, each frame will only take seconds.
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- See the sample videos. The timing is measured on an AMD AI Max 395 cpu.
Full Artistic Control-
HiPhyEngine gives user full artistic controls. Most simulation parameters can be animated and mapped. In Blender, user can utilize attributes and geometric nodes to create animated simulation parameter maps for HiPhyEngine. HiPhyEngine also provides integration with the expression language SeExpr2 to give user more ways to create force fields and attributes.
Your All in One Solver-
HiPhyEngine is a fully coupled simulation engine for five different material models. Need to couple cloth and rigid body? Cloth and hairs? Soft bodies? No need for the extra set up! HiPhyEngine will take care of all the interactions!
Robust and Clean Simulation Result-
HiPhyEngine guarantees intersection free simulation. No matter how fast things are moving, how thin, if there is a intersection-free solution, HiPhyEngine will find it! To give user maximum control, user can use animated maps to activate/deactive collision on demand anywhere, at any frame.
Special Features-
Gravity is pulling your carefully groomed hairs down? No worries! HiPhyEngine has an inverse simulation technique that automatically generates the rest shape that compensates for gravity and other external forces. Animators are handing you meshes that go through themselves? HiPhyEngine's soft collider feature will automatically clean up incoming animation mesh makes them intersection free and ready for simulation. HiPhyEngine also has solver space, unit conversion, time scale, and tons of other features to explore!
Snow, Sand, and Beyond-
HiPhyEngine also provides a MPM solver, that is capable to simulate variety of phenomenons with fluid/solid mixture, such snow, sand, mud, or even bread dough!
Try It Out for Free!-
You can try out the trial version of HiPhyEngine here!
Getting Started-
A quick tutorial here can get you up to speed with how to set up a simple HiPhyEngine simulation!
Case Study-
Like the demo videos? Download the trial version, follow the the tutorials to see how easy it is to get clean and intersection free simulations in HiPhyEngine!
Video Tutorials-
Follow our YouTube Channel: @HiPhyEngine! We are constantly adding new tutorials and demos!
About us-
We are a very small team with a lot of engineering experiences and experience working with talented artists, but we have limited artistic experience ourselves. We love to hear feedbacks from artists and know what features we should add next, and how to improve our tools!