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Official release

Date – 27 Mar, 2019

Download – Build 3.13.00

With Phoenix FD 3.13 we have focused on adding many frequently requested features, improving usability and support for 3ds Max 2020.

Following is the complete changelog for this version of Phoenix FD:

Complete changelog:

New Features

Phoenix FD

for 3ds Max 2020

Volumetric Shader

or replace the Fire Opacity with a Texture in 'Use Own Opacity' mode

 Saving of Phoenix simulated particles to OpenVDB caches

Improvements

Simulation

or emitting from Sources

to allow only expansion of the adaptive grid, but disable shrinking for the Liquid Simulator

FLIP Solver

of the RGB channel for FLIP particles

Animation

now reconstructed from FLIP particles when using Time Bend Controls, preventing render flickering

Volumetric Shader

volumetric rendering when Smoke Opacity is modulated by a texture

Particle Shader

Blur Interval Center support for the Particle Shader

Ocean Mesher

for rendering Ocean Mesh from multiple cameras via Batch Render

Preview

the force preview in the box of the loaded cache, if any, and in the simulation box otherwise

 Updated OpenVDB from version 3 to version 5

 Export Phoenix meshes with vertex velocity using 3ds Max 2019+'s

built-in Alembic export into the 'Max_Map_Channel velocity' color set. Used for motion blur rendering with V-Ray Next update 1.1

or newer

export to Alembic for the different particle systems of a Simulator by exporting the "Particles [] of []" nodes via 3ds Max's built-in exporter

User Interface

the running Simulator's node name to the simulation viewport status

 The Phoenix FD 3ds Max plugin could not load together with V-Ray builds older than V-Ray 3.6. Restored compatibility with V-Ray 3.1

Grid Solver

FLIP Solver

with 'Simulate Air Effects' and forces affecting the 'Air' system of a Liquid Simulator, since Phoenix FD 3.04

liquid at the front of a long moving ocean container with Motion Inertia

Simulation General

restore did not go back to the last backup frame and could cause a crash, since Phoenix FD 3.12

 Voxelization of a large amount of small bodies used excessive amounts of memory, since Phoenix FD 3.11

of hundreds of geometries with very small sizes was slower on many threads compared to simulating on 1 thread

Sources

with small size used as emitters for Liquid had random Discharge strength

Animation

FLIP liquid mesh near emitters when Input Play Speed was below 1

GPU Volumetrics

 Crash with instanced Simulators in Volumetric Render Mode during sequence render with V-Ray GPU

[requires V-Ray Next update 1.1 or newer]

when rendering a scene containing any Particle Shaders with V-Ray GPU

Volumetric Illumination

ended during sequence render

when rendering a volume with Create Lights intersecting a geometry with a Light Material

Volumetric Shader

additional memory even when it should

have been disabled in Progressive V-Ray rendering

leak when rendering with GI and any V-Ray render elements

Particle Shader

when rendering a Particle Shader without a linked Liquid Simulator, since Phoenix FD 3.12

Particle Nodes

the second time you rendered a large amount of Foam particles

Ocean Mesher

used excessive amounts of memory when rendered with

Spherical Panorama camera

when rendering Ocean mesh with Cutter Geom and Motion Blur

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

Grid Texture

if creating a circular dependency between a Grid Texture and a Simulator's displacement, when 'Skip the Displacement' was off

during fire/smoke simulation if using a Grid Texture reading the Temperature of the same Simulator in a Mapper affecting Temperature with 'Initializer' Off

could be selected as a Phoenix Grid texture Source Node

Wave Force

Preview

displayed bright red and pink voxels

 Min-max channel range of AUR caches randomly displayed very large numbers

when repeatedly pressing Export PRT particles

 Forward scrolling the timeline slider while simulating and looking at the Simulation rollout hung the simulation

warning about DR and local paths still appeared even after all Simulators were deleted from the scene

Installer

installer for V-Ray 3 placed vray_phoenix.dll into '3dsmax XXXX for x64/bin/plugins' instead of 'RT for 3ds Max XXXX for x64/bin/plugins'