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The diffuse color needs external light to become visible if GI is enabled in the V-Ray Render Settings in Maya.

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UI Path: ||Select PhoenixFDSim|| > Attribute Editor > Rendering rollout > Smoke Color rollout

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You can use the following controls in the color gradient:

Double click – Creates a new point or changes an existing one.
Left button drag over a point
– Moves the point. If several points were selected beforehand, they will move the same amount.
Left button drag over several points
– Selects several points.
Middle button drag over the background
– Drags the visible area.
Mouse wheel
– Zooms in/out.
Right-click
– Displays a drop-down menu where you can add a point, edit or delete a selected point, and fit the entire gradient into the view. If multiple points are selected, they can be edited simultaneously.

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Example: Phase Function with front lighting

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Phase Function = -0.5

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Phase Function = -0.5 (Backward Scattering) 

 
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Phase Function = 0 (Isotropic Scattering)

 
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Phase Function = 0.5 (Forward Scattering)

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Example: Phase Function with back lighting

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Phase Function = 0.5 (Forward Scattering)

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The orange arrow represents a ray of light going through the volume and the possible scattering directions for the ray.

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Example: Smoke Color Based on Speed

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The Smoke Color can be based on any channel present in the cache files. The Speed channel can be used to drive the color of the smoke. It is automatically generated by Phoenix based on the Velocity Grid Channel. In this example, the slowly moving smoke is blue while the fast moving smoke is red to yellow.

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