Flow Wedging (Technology Preview)

Wedging is the process of generating variations of an effect in order to choose the best one, similar to bracketing the exposure setting in photography. It is a common technique used for fluid and other simulations, but it can be very time-consuming because of the amount of computation that is required.

Flow Wedging is a plug-in that ships with Bifrost for Maya and can help with wedging the output of a Bifrost graph. After preparing the graph, you can submit your wedging job to the cloud thus freeing up your computer's resources to work on other things. Once the job is finished, you can compare the downloaded cache files and iterate as desired.

Flow Wedging is a technology preview, so some features are missing and workflows may change in the future. It requires single-user licensing, and the consumption of cloud services is limited to 250 hours per user per month during the technology preview period. This quota resets on the first of every month.