Retimer Question

[acuppajoe]

First time posting here and hope I am posting to the right spot.

I am pretty new to RealFlow (2012), in general, but wanted to do something a bit more advanced. Currently, I am working on a project that involves a water splash and a double helix growing out of it. I already have the splash simulation done and the double helix as two different files and was going to combine them using a bin loader. Where I am having trouble is retiming the simulation.

Right where the splash reaches it's peak, I need to slow it down (t/9) and then have it resume at normal speed so I can do some camera movements in maya. So I have been trying to use retimer to basically stretch frames 15-20 to 15-179 and then have it resume to normal speed after.

I just really don't know how to stretch just part of the simulation successfully and wanted to see if anyone had any pointers. I have tried an if statement, but pretty sure my equation is completely wrong.

if(14<t<21,1,t/9)

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

[acuppajoe]

Just posting an update.

I found out that if I deleted the "t" expression in the graph editor, I could make my own graph. If all works out from here I should probably post a video. Hope this is able to help someone with the same problem.

[Dextact]

Hi there,

I've been searching the web for how answers on how to retime. I've had no luck with the manual. I'm stuck on the procedure after I hit the 'retime' button. What are the steps after that?

A video or list of steps would be helpful.