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title GPU Volumetrics

 Support for textures for volume rendering with V-Ray Next GPU

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colour Green title New

 

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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colour Green title New

 

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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title Sim Instancing

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

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colour Green title New

 

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title Sim Instancing

 Instancing and referencing of Simulators during simulation

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title 3ds Max Integration

 Support for Simulators and Particle Shaders in Scene and Object XRefs

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title Scripting

 MaxScript 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

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colour Green title New

 

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title Scripting

 New MaxScript functions for saving a Simulator render preset to file - <node>.saveRenderPreset <path> and A_SaveRenderPreset <node> <path>

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colour Green title New

 

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title Scripting

 New MaxScript functions for saving and loading a Simulator's simulation preset to file - loadSimPreset, saveSimPreset, A_LoadRenderPreset, A_SaveRenderPreset

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 WetMap now has different sticky effect against different liquid viscosities

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Volumetric Shader

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

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title Sources

 Discharge Modifiers by Particle Size

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

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

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

 New default $(scene_path) macro for simulation cache Output expands to "$(scene)_Phoenix_frames" directory and does not use the node handle in the cache name

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title Particle Nodes

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

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title Tools

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

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title User Interface

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

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title User Interface

 Renamed the Foam and Splash 'Outside Life' option to 'Max Outside Age'

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title User Interface

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

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title User Interface

 Renamed 'Boundary conditions' to 'Container Walls'

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title SDK

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

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title Installer

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

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title FLIP Solver

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

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title FLIP Solver

 Liquid sources emitted in pulses when adaptive grid resizes, since Phoenix FD 3.11

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

: Could not emit liquid from particle systems, since Phoenix FD 3.11

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title FLIP Solver

 If the Liquid Simulator's cache Output path could not be written to, no error was shown and the simulation continued, since Phoenix FD 3.11

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title FLIP Solver

 Surface Tension Droplet Breakup caused liquid drops in zero gravity to take diamond shapes

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Confine Geometries used by Liquid Simulators were not internally set to Solid like Fire/Smoke Simulators do

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

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

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title FLIP Solver

 Significant difference in the simulation between Sticky Liquid set to 0.001 and 0.002

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title grid Solver

 Crash when Resimulating with Adaptive Grid with Preallocation and the result grid was over 2.1 billion voxels

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title Volumetric Shader

 Missing buckets with moving Simulator in Volumetric Geometry mode and Motion Blur

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title GPU Volumetrics

 Wrong cache file was rendered with V-Ray Next GPU when Resimulation was enabled, Play Speed was not 1.0 and Use Time Bend Controls was On

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title GPU Volumetrics

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title GPU Volumetrics

 Volumes didn't render in V-Ray Next GPU in scenes where Particle Shaders referenced missing caches

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title GPU Volumetrics

 Incorrect light intensity with Approximate Scattering using V-Ray Next GPU

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Particle Shader

 The Size Multiplier of a Particle Shader animated by Particle Age did not work correctly for particles born on negative frames

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title Particle Shader

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

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title Particle Shader

 Point Mode and Fog Mode did not render when Render as Geometry was enabled

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title Particle Shader

 Rendering in Bubbles Mode, then rendering in Fog Mode, and then again rendering in Bubbles Mode still rendered the fog when Render as Geometry was enabled

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title Particle Shader

 Crash with Particle Shader in Geometry Mode and geometry with VRayMtl with V-Ray Edges Tex rounded edges bump since Phoenix FD 3.10

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title Isosurface Rendering

 Render Cutter in Isosurface mode of a Simulator with VRayMtl with Affect Shadows blocked GI rays for geometry inside the Cutter with V-Ray Next

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title Render Elements

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

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title Render Elements

 The Simulator's Shadow, Raw Shadow, GI, and Raw GI render elements didn't render correctly in Volumetric Geometry mode with Phoenix Light Cache enabled

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title Render Elements

 The Simulator's Shadow, Raw Shadow, GI, and Raw GI render elements didn't render correctly with enabled Phoenix Light Cache

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title Render Elements

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

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title Ocean Mesher

 The Simulator surface appeared rougher than the Ocean extension in the distance at a low angle with low Ocean Subdivs and low Horizon Roughness

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 Black artifacts near the horizon in Ocean Mode with Horizon Roughness and the camera was far from the Simulator origin

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

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

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 Missing mesh polygons on the container border when rendering in Ocean Mesh mode with Mesh Smoothness above 0

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Ocean Mesher

 Using Mesh Smoothing in Ocean Mesh or Cap Mesh render mode shrunk the mesh

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title Ocean Texture

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

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title Grid Texture

 Crash if using a Grid Texture sampling a 'Rendering ...' channel that used the same Grid Texture as Based On or Modulate texture

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title Grid Texture

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

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title Grid Texture

 Random crash after selecting a new Simulator in a Grid Texture

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title Grid Texture

 Grid Texture did not update during sequence render if it was plugged into an Output map

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title Grid Texture

 Grid Texture did not read the Rendering Color or Opacity channels from a Simulator in Mesh or Isosurface Mode

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title Preview

 Incorrect preview when the Simulator's Pivot Point was Offset

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title Preview

 The range for velocity preview was wrong then there was no velocity channel and auto-range was enabled

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title Cache I/O

 Caches containing digits after the # format could not be loaded

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Cache I/O

 Caches containing a minus/dash sign before the # format could not be loaded

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title Particle Nodes

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

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title Stoke

 Phoenix Simulators could not be used as a Velocity Field Source in Stoke MX since Phoenix FD 3.05

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title Stoke

 Crash when simulating with Stoke MX using a Simulator with a Grid Texture in its material as a Velocity Field Source

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title Particle Flow

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

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title PRT I/O

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

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title PRT I/O

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

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title tools

 Cache Converter required a missing aurloader.dll

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title presets

 Simulation or render presets had a different number of keyframes every time they were saved

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title 3ds max integration

 Crash while running a simulation if selecting 'New scene'