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 UI Path: ||Select Fire Smoke Simulator| FireSmokeSim|| > Modify panel > Simulation rollout

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Expand – Opens a floating dialog that contains the selected rollout and automatically folds the command panel rollout.

? – Opens up the help documents for the Fire/Smoke Simulation options.

Start, Pause, Stop, Resume | A_StartSim, A_StopSim – Starts, pauses and stops the simulation. Once the simulation has been paused, the option to Resume becomes available. Note that you can stop a running simulation using the Shift+Escape key combination, or with the Escape key, if the option to do so is enabled in the PhoenixFD Global Preferences.

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Load & Start | A_StartSim – Loads the data from a single cache as an initial state for the simulation and starts simulating from the Start Frame the same way the Start action works. The cache can be of the .aur, .vdb, or .f3d formats and so can be imported from a 3rd party software into Phoenix. The loaded grid will be resized to fit the grid's dimensions at the Start Frame. The loaded cache does not need to be a Backup frame or to contain velocity at all - the simulator will load any available channels from the cache file and the rest of the simulated channels will be empty as when starting a brand new simulation. If you wish to smoothly continue a simulated sequence from a given frame, please use the Restore command instead.

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Restore | A_StartSim – Continues a simulation from the currently viewed frame on the timeline, or the latest Backup frame containing the full simulation state up to the current timeline frame, which is controlled by the Backup Interval parameter in the Output rollout. This way, a Phoenix simulation that has been stopped previously can be resumed from the point you left off, even after the software has been closed and reopened.

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The ability to restore a sim is only possible when the full internal state of a Phoenix simulation has been exported. This is controlled by the Backup Interval parameter in the Output rollout, which determines how often the full simulation state is backed up. Frames with the full state are called Backup frames.

When a Backup frame is currently viewed, the text "Can Restore From Here" appears in the Cache File Content list. The Restore command finds the latest Backup frame up to the current timeline frame, and continues the simulation from there. Note that restoring does not work for cache sequences imported from 3rd party software.

Get Tutorials – Opens the Tutorials and Examples page in the web browser.

Phoenix Help – Opens up the help documents for the Fire/Smoke Simulation.

Show Phoenix Main Window - Opens a floating dialog where floating rollouts of Simulators can be docked. The layout of this window gets saved to the .MAX scene files.

Simulation Presets... | A_LoadRenderPreset – Displays a drop-down menu to either load or save .tpr or .slog files, which hold settings for this simulation.

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