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title Phoenix FD

 Support for 3ds Max 2019

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title Phoenix FD

 Support for V-Ray Next

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colour Green title New

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Simulate the RGB channel of Foam, Splash and Mist particles

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colour Green title New

 

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title GPU Volumetrics

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

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colour Green title New

 

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title Cache I/O

 Direct loading of huge sparse OpenVDB caches without downsampling

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colour Green title New

 

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title Particle Texture

 Color the Particle Texture based on Particle Channels such as Age, Velocity, RGB, etc.

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colour Green title New

 

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title Mapper

 Added Affected Particle Systems list to the Mapper so it can separately affect Foam, Splash and Mist

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Preview

 Sped up the Preview Auto Range algorithm

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Sped up the scene interaction with complex or moving geometries

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

 Optimized loading of caches containing Velocity channel

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

 Allowed grid Channel Smoothing to be applied over imported channels with any value range

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

 Apply the Smoothing Random Variation over all voxels regardless of the Smooth Threshold

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Volumetric Shader

 Sped up velocity sampling during volumetric motion blur

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Particle Shader

 Sped up rendering in Bubble, Cellular and Splash mode using the Phoenix Light Cache up to 2x

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 Sped up the Displacement Fade Volume algorithm with complex or moving geometries

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Body Force

 Sped up the Body Force with complex or moving geometries

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Forces

 Allowed all parameters of the Phoenix forces to be animated

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title VRScenes

 Support for relative cache paths in VRScenes and the -remapPath option in V-Ray Next StandAlone

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Grid Texture

 Box, Linear and Spherical Sampler Type for the Grid Texture

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title 3ds Max Integration

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

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title SDK

 Exposed the pre- and post-render 3ds Max callbacks through the SDK so Phoenix can be prepared for rendering manually

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title Cache I/O

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Viscosity calculations used extra memory and processing time even without Variable Viscosity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Foam Pattern forces pushed particles vertically which made them less effective

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Liquid and Foam particles sometimes got shot away on collision with Confine Geometry

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Voxels under the Fillup For Ocean level and cut by Confine Geometry were not included in the ocean mesh

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Voxelization became increasingly slower until 3ds Max was closed and re-opened

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Random crash when FLIP liquid particles interact with the 0th face index of a geometry, since Phoenix FD 3.10

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Sources

 Source Polygon ID affects the discharge even if not in Surface Force mode

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Volumetric Shader

 The V-Ray Velocity render element was not rendered in Volumetric Geometry mode if Motion Blur was off since Phoenix FD 3.05

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title particle Shader

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle Shader

 Bubbles and Splashes were rendered differently on a different number of threads with Phoenix Light Cache enabled

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle Shader

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title V-Ray RT and IPR

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title V-Ray RT and IPR

 Master Multiplier from the Smoke Color rollout wasn't exported correctly

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 The Displacement Fade Volume caused grid artifacts on the ocean mesh

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 Incorrect ocean mesh if V-Ray's 'Get resolution from MAX' option was off and the VFB resolution differed from 3ds Max's

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Texture

 Ocean Texture with Control by Wind Speed enabled did not render with the correct scale with V-Ray RT

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid Texture

 No Motion Blur with Grid Texture connected to a meshed Simulator's material

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid Texture

 Crash when rendering a Grid Texture that uses a deleted simulator

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Wave Force

 Boiling effect on the open grid borders when using Wave Force with Fillup for Ocean

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title VRScenes

 Particle Shader was not exported to VRscene files when Render as Geometry was enabled

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title VRScenes

 Crash when the transforms of the PhxShaderSim plugin and the Node plugin in Volumetric Geometry mode were mismatched in a VRScene

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

 Wrong velocity direction and motion blur when importing OpenVDB files from FumeFX

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

 Wrong velocity scale when importing OpenVDB files from Maya Fluids

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

 Couldn't load OpenVDB files whose "file_voxel_count" metadata is 0, though they contain active voxels

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

 Cache saving became increasingly slower until 3ds Max was closed and re-opened, since Phoenix FD 3.10

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Preview

 Body Force force preview did not update when the simulator was moving

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Render Curves

 Adding a new spline point to a straight sloped section in the render diagrams produced curvature

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title PRT I/O

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds Max Integration

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds Max Integration

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds Max Integration

 Crash when reading cached voxel data via MaxScript if the coordinate system is set to World or Object