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Complete changelog:

Official release

Date – 29 Oct, 2018

Download – Build 3.12.00

With Phoenix FD 3.12 we have focused on adding many frequently requested features, improving usability and integration in 3ds Max.

Following is the complete changelog for this version of Phoenix FD:

Complete changelog:

New Features

GPU Volumetrics

for textures for volume rendering with V-Ray Next GPU

Ocean Mesher

for all parameters of the V-Ray and 3ds Max Physical Camera types when creating an Ocean Mesh

for all V-Ray camera types when creating an Ocean Mesh - Spherical, Cylindrical, Box, Fish eye, Warped spherical, Ortho, Spherical panorama, Cube 6x1

Sim Instancing

and referencing for rendering and preview of Simulators in non-mesh render modes

 Support for Simulators and Particle Shaders in Scene and Object XRefs

Scripting

interface for getting grid data and loading render presets directly from the Simulator nodes. The new functions are loadRenderPreset, setCoordSys, getVelocity, getRGB, getTemperature, getSmoke, getFuel

FLIP Solver

now has different sticky effect against different liquid viscosities

Volumetric Shader

the hidden grid-based motion blur algorithm from Phoenix FD 3.00.01 for use via the 'mbgrid' script parameter

Sources

Modifiers by Particle Size

 Support for the new transformation model of OpenVDB caches from FumeFX 5

Particle Nodes

the Particle Group nodes to a new node type instead of being Simulator instances

Tools

Converter now requires source and destination files and is verbose by default

User Interface

Shaders created by enabling Foam or Splash, or by Quick Setup presets, are now named after the simulator with 'Foam/Splash/Mist Shader' appended

'Sticky Effect' and 'Sticky' to 'Sticky Liquid' and 'Sticky Foam' respectively

SDK

a new function - getVolRendSamplerFromNode() which takes a node as an argument in order to support Simulator instances

Installer

a warning when installing Phoenix for V-Ray 3 together with V-Ray Next and vice versa

Bug Fixes

FLIP Solver

particles got deleted on contact with deforming geometries, Alembic and Point Caches

geometry without Clear Inside did not create liquid voxels under the Fillup for Ocean level

was created in voxels covered by Confine Geometry when Fillup for Ocean was used

Grid Solver

Volumetric Shader

buckets with moving Simulator in Volumetric Geometry mode and Motion Blur

GPU Volumetrics

about Emit light not supported on V-Ray Next GPU was shown when rendering in Mesh mode

Particle Shader

infinite loop when rendering particles in Bubble mode with V-Ray Next

Isosurface Rendering

Render Elements

in VRayLightSelect render element when rendering the Simulator in Volumetric Geometry mode with Phoenix Light Cache enabled

crash when rendering a Simulator in Volumetric Geometry mode with V-Ray Velocity Render element

Ocean Mesher

mesh velocity when rendering a moving Ocean or Cap mode Simulator with Motion Blur

Underwater Goggles option did not account for the Off-Screen Margin option

on the grid border when rendering in Ocean Mesh mode with Mesh Smoothing and Use Liquid Particles

Phoenix Mesh displacement using an Ocean Texture when looking at tall waves from the side since Phoenix FD 3.03

Ocean Texture

when rendering Ocean with high Ocean Subdivs and high Ocean Texture Level of Detail

Grid Texture

or a different render when re-rendering the same frame that used a Grid Texture

 Random crash after selecting a new Simulator in a Grid Texture

Preview

preview when the Simulator's Pivot Point was Offset

 Caches containing digits after the # format could not be loaded

Particle Nodes

after deleting a Simulator and one or more of its hidden PG nodes together

Stoke

Particle Flow

from Particle Flow systems where some events have no particles produces emission at coordinates 0,0,0

 PRT Export in the interval from frame 0 to frame 0 exported the entire timeline range

exporting once, the PRT Export dialogue became non-modal and another one could be opened, which could lead to crashes

Tools

Converter required a missing aurloader.dll

Presets

3ds Max Integration