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This page provides information on the Phoenix software development kit (SDKChaos Phoenix application programming interface (API).
Overview
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The Chaos Phoenix FD SDK API is included with the installation of Phoenix FD for Autodesk® 3ds 3ds Max® and . It provides a C++ API for several different purposes:
- Loading of grid and particle data stored in
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- AUR, VDB or F3D cache files.
- Runtime access to the grid volume and particle shading core of a Phoenix Simulator node in 3ds Max, allowing you to read and shade this data in your own plugin.
- Runtime access to different Phoenix nodes, allowing you to prepare them for rendering on demand, start and stop a simulation, access the parameters of different nodes, load and save presets.
- Access to the Phoenix color gradients and diagram curves, allowing you to embed them in your own application.
Installation
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The Phoenix FD SDK API is normally installed in "C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\Phoenix FD\3ds Max NNNN for x64\SDK" where NNNN is the version of 3ds Max (20172021, 20162020, etc).
Structure
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The Phoenix FD SDK API includes the following folders:
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Using the Phoenix
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API
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The Phoenix API
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Phoenix FD SDK is provided as a static and dynamic library. Depending on your project, you may pick the static or dynamic version of the library. Usually the dynamic version is preferred when there is a dependency to any version of V-Ray SDK, as Phoenix FD SDK API depends on vutils_s.lib.
Using Phoenix FD SDK API as a static library requires:
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Using Phoenix FD SDK API as a dynamic library requires:
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Phoenix API Depending on the version of 3ds Max and the version of V-Ray, Phoenix FD SDK is built with the respective version of Microsoft Visual vc14 C++ Runtime:
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Platform Toolset for all 3ds Max versions and for both V-Ray
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Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2015
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2016
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2017
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Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2018
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2019
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2020
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With Next and V-Ray 5, with "/MD" Runtime Library flag.
Samples
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The Phoenix FD SDK API comes with two code sample projects: GridView and CSVParticles.
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GLEW (http://glew.sourceforge.net/).
GLFW (http://www.glfw.org/) Tested with GLFW Version 3.0.4.
Zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). Needed if static version of Phoenix FD SDK API is being used.
See the License Agreements and Copyrights page for copyright notices.
Here is an archive containing those libraries: external_libs.
Note: This is just a collection of the libraries as we downloaded them from their respective official sites. We don't take any responsibility for the way the actual libraries work or affect your PC.
GridView
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GridView is a simple smoke rendering implemented in OpenGL. it is located in the \samples\GridView directory.
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CSVParticles
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CSVParticles exports particle groups stored in Phoenix FD Phoenix *.aur files to *.csv recognized by Thinkbox Krakatoa™ (http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/krak-csv-file-format/CSV File Format).
Prerequisites:
In order to build this sample, all external libraries must be located in a CSVParticles/external_libs.
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