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Official release

Date – May 31, 2018

Download – Build 3.11.00

for 3ds Max 2019

for V-Ray Next

of Phoenix Simulators with V-Ray Next GPU. Support for render elements, texture maps and displacement is yet to be added

 Direct loading of huge sparse OpenVDB caches without downsampling

up the Preview Auto Range algorithm

 Sped up the scene interaction with complex or moving geometries

 Optimized loading of caches containing Velocity channel

up velocity sampling during volumetric motion blur

up the Displacement Fade Volume algorithm with complex or moving geometries

, Linear and Spherical Sampler Type for the Grid Texture

 Duplicate Particle Group nodes when cloning a Simulator if Foam or Splash simulation is enabled

 Dropped support for the AUR1 cache format. Caches simulated with Phoenix builds before 13 Mar 2015 will not open anymore

calculations used extra memory and processing time even without Variable Viscosity

made them less effective

when the Mapper affects a FLIP particle channel which was not enabled in the Simulator Output

got shot away on collision with Confine Geometry

for Ocean did not clear the volume of Solid bodies with Clear Inside

Time Scale parameter did not take any effect if animated or changed during FLIP liquid simulation

not start FLIP liquid resimulation if the first frame had 0 liquid particles

Source Motion Velocity did not work for emitted Foam and Splash particles

 Voxelization became increasingly slower until

3ds Max was closed and re-opened

V-Ray Velocity render element was not rendered with Render as Geometry enabled if Motion Blur was off

cache data leaked when rendering a Particle Shader with Liquid Simulator and Render as Geometry

 Fire Opacity Multiplier was always exported as 1 with V-Ray RT

Displacement Fade Volume caused grid artifacts on the ocean mesh

 The grid RGB channel was missing when saving the cache files in OpenVDB format since Phoenix FD 3.10

velocity direction and motion blur when importing OpenVDB files from FumeFX

when writing cache files at the exact moment while the same or another simulator is reading them

3ds Max was closed and re-opened, since Phoenix FD 3.10

Force force preview did not update when the simulator was moving

 The Export PRT dialogue showed the particle systems only when the timeline frame was on a loaded cache

 Couldn't simulate after undoing the deletion of a Simulator connected to a Particle Shader since Phoenix FD 3.10

Simulator did not release the loaded cache frame memory when hidden or deleted, but only after scene reset