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title Active bodies

 New rigid body solver node, interacting with the Liquid Simulator. No mutual interaction between rigid bodies yet

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title phoenix fd

 New TexUVW channel for fire/smoke and liquid simulations, moving with the fluid and allowing for render-time texture mapping of surfaces and volume color and opacity, as well as for adding displaced detail moving with the fluid in all render modes.

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colour Green title New

 

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title voxel tuner

 New node allowing to change any grid channel during simulation depending on conditions based on grid channel values, textures or distance to meshes. StatuscolourGreentitleNew  Statustitlevoxel tuner User interface for adding Math expression items (+, -, *, /) to the Voxel Tuner. StatuscolourGreentitleNew  Statustitlevoxel tuner User interface for adding Logic expression items (and, or) to the Voxel Tuner. StatuscolourGreentitleNew  Statustitlevoxel tuner Expression items can be deleted by replacing them with simpler items in the Voxel Tuner. Items

are now scene nodes. Old scenes with Voxel Tuners won't open anymore.

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle tuner

 New node allowing to change any particle channel or delete particles during simulation depending on conditions based on particle channel values.

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle tuner

 Implemented expressions as a condition for the Particle Tuner.

thinking particles

 Phoenix FD Birth, Sample and Force operators for thinkingParticles

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title thinking particles

 Phoenix FD Birth operator for thinkingParticles.

Preview

 New Standalone Previewer tool for AUR, VDB and F3D cache files, much faster than the 3ds Max and Maya viewports and currently showing voxels and a new velocity streamline preview

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colour Green title New

 

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title thinking particles

 Phoenix FD Sample operator for thinkingParticles.

Grid Solver

 Simulate the RGB channel for Drag particles

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colour Green title New

 

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title thinking particles

 Phoenix FD Force operator for thinkingParticles.

PRT I/O

 Register the PRT Reader path into the 3ds Max Asset Tracker for repathing, archiving, and asset transfer for distributed rendering with V-Ray Next

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colour Green title New

 

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title scripting

 New <node>.getFrameInfo MAXScript function that retrieves the currently loaded frame info string. StatuscolourGreentitleNew

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Grid Solver

 Simulate the RGB channel for Drag particles.

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title PRT I/O

 Register the PRT Reader path into the 3ds Max Asset Tracker for repathing, archiving, and asset transfer for distributed rendering with V-Ray Next.

installation

 Now Phoenix for V-Ray 3 and for V-Ray Next can load in 3ds Max and simulate without V-Ray installed, and can render with Scanline, Corona, Octane, etc. so Phoenix installers for Scanline are no longer needed 

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Optimized Birth Volumes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Apply the Initial Vel. Rand. option not just to newborn Splash, but to splitting splash particles as well

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Sources

 Emit from instanced thinkingParticles meshes when Prt Shape is set to Use Particle Shape

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title sources

 Emit from thinkingParticles meshes which are different per each particle when Prt Shape is set to Use Particle Shape

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Volumetric Shader

 Optimized rendering of tens or hundreds of Simulators in Volumetric render mode

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title particle shader

Speed  Speed up and improve CPU utilization for Optimizing Particle Congestion with large cache files

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title voxel tuner

 Buildup Time option StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD  Statustitleparticle tuner Buildup Time option StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD  Statustitlethinking particles

render curves

 Copy-paste support for render gradients and curves Sped up reading cache files by the Birth, Force and Sample operators

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title thinking particles

 Add the Speed channel to the thinkingParticles Sample operator StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD 

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title cache i/o

 Sped up Grid RGB channel saving to compressed AUR cache files up to 8 times StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD  Statustitleprt i/o Sped up export of PRT files up to 5 times StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD  Statustitleinstallation Now Phoenix for V-Ray 3 and for V-Ray Next can start up even without V-Ray installed, and can render with Scanline, Corona, Octane, etc. so Phoenix installers for Scanline are no longer needed StatuscolourYellowtitleImproveD  Statustitlerender curves Copy-paste support for render gradients and curves

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title cache i/o

 Save and load Grid Viscosity from VDBs created by Phoenix

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title CACHE I/O

 Sped up loading of VDB caches by reading their min-max channel ranges from metadata instead of calculating them

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title CACHE I/O

 Added cache info to VDB caches describing which version of Phoenix FD was used during simulation

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title CACHE I/O

 Hidden script option to disable the preset popup when loading Field3D or OpenVDB caches - inDontOfferPresets

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title prt i/o

 Sped up export of PRT files up to 5 times

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title prt i/o

 Allowed use of # in the PRT Reader for specifying sequences just like cache paths in the Simulator work

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title preview

 Don't reset the preview Detail Reduction on loading a new cache sequence in 3ds Max

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title user interface

 Renamed "Use Light Cache" to "Volume Light Cache" so it's not confused with V-Ray's Light Cache

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title USER INTERFACE

 Enabled Motion Velocity in Sources by default for new scenes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title USER INTERFACE

 Changed Mapper's Initializer option to off by default for new scenes

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title FLIP Solver

 Fluid viscosity could be raised above 1.0 by the Voxel Tuner StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitleactive bodies

sdk

 Renamed aura_ver.h to phoenix_ver.h Active Bodies with mass set to 0 were still affected by gravity 

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title active bodies

 Hiding an active body clone during simulation created many new copies of the object StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitleactive bodies Animated Active bodies moved faster than the original animated objects StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  StatustitleACTIVE BODIES The Active Bodies solver could be picked in a Phoenix Source StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  StatustitleACTIVE BODIES Scene interaction with many obstacles even outside the simulator was slow in Phoenix 4 compared to Phoenix 3 StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  StatustitleACTIVE BODIES Restoring the simulation created new Active Body clones, without removing the old ones StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  StatustitleACTIVE BODIES Objects with different "Friction with the fluid" amount were colliding with the fluid in a similar way StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  StatustitleACTIVE BODIES Elasticity affected bodies differently with different type of shapes StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevolumetric shader

sdk

 Removed grid and particle channel defines from aurinterface.h

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colour Blue title removed

 Rendering more than 10 Simulators in Volumetric mode showed occluded geometry through StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlesources Creating Discharge Modifiers or changing their curves did not support undo/redo StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlepreview Jittering Preview with Detail reduction and Adaptive grid StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevoxel tuner Copying a Voxel Tuner node does not duplicate its expression tree StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevoxel tuner Voxel Tuner didn't update the distance when the object's position changes StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevoxel tuner Saving a scene with a Voxel Tuner and loading it could break some expressions StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevoxel tuner  Animating one float value in an expression tree caused all other float values in the tree to be animated StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlethinking particles Emitting from a thinkingParticles group set to non-Solid did not work if the All group was set to Solid  StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlethinking particles Using thinkingParticles instanced geometry in a Phoenix Source required manually changing the Polygon ID to a different value

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title thinking particles

 Birth operator created excessive particles when based on Temperature

phoenix fd

 Dropped support for 3ds Max 2014 StatuscolourRedtitlefixed

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title	thinking particles

 Force operator's Variation had a too strong effect

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title thinking particles

 Birth operator used the RGB green channel instead of the velocity when based on Speed StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlethinking particles thinkingParticles Birth Operator curve points with value below 0 were treated as positive StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlegrid texture Grid Texture applied to thinkingParticles did not get updated correctly when rendering a sequence StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlefoam texture Wrong Mapping of the Foam Texture when the Ocean texture used tiling other than 1.0 in World XYZ with 'Use the original non-displaced vertices' StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitle3ds Max Integration

Scene Body Interaction

 Body Force and Voxel Tuner can pick nodes which are not geometries, such as Active Body Solver nodes StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlescene body interaction Hang during simulation if interacting with geometries with zero-area triangles

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid solver

 Random hang when stopping a fire/smoke simulation affected by a force and starting it again

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid solver

 Some voxels lose velocity and freeze using Massive Vorticity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title sources

 Creating Discharge Modifiers or changing their curves did not support undo/redo

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title volumetric shader

 Crash with caches over 2.1 billion voxels with Phoenix Light Cache, since Phoenix FD 3.12

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Reflections of excluded area lights still showed up on a Particle Shader's Bubbles/Splashes

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mesher

 Phoenix Mesh mode with a 2D scalar Displacement map rendered with artifacts

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mesher

 The Simulator's Velocity Render Element was not rendered in some frames in any of the Mesh modes with Render Cutter

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title ocean mesher

 Enabling the Underwater Goggles option had no effect since Phoenix FD 3.12

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title ocean mesher

 Orthographic viewport did not render Ocean Mesh correctly with Phoenix for Scanline

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Simulating the Fire/Smoke Temperature channel to VDB incorrectly showed the minimum data range as 0, instead of 300

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Drag particles exported to VDB could not render with motion blur even with exported grid velocity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title preview

 Jittering Preview with Detail reduction and Adaptive grid

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title body force

 Crash when simulating using a Body Force node without an object, since Phoenix FD 3.13

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title path follow

 Modifier-Based Space Warps over a Spline caused the Path Follow force to work incorrectly

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mapper

 Mapper's Initializer option was not working with Liquid simulators

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid texture

 Grid Texture applied to thinkingParticles did not get updated correctly when rendering a sequence

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle texture

 Crash when simulating using a Mapper with a Particle Texture, while the same Particle Texture was also used in a material

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title foam texture

 Wrong Mapping of the Foam Texture when the Ocean texture used tiling other than 1.0 in World XYZ with 'Use the original non-displaced vertices'

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds Max Integration

 Crash when simulating with Cascade Simulator enabled but no Simulator chosen

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title 3ds Max Integration

 Adding an X-Ref Scene or X-Ref Object broke the Output path of existing Simulators in the current scene if it contained a macro StatuscolourRedtitlefixed  Statustitlevrscenes Crash when exporting Liquid with Grid Texture used in its material to a VRscene

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title vrscenes

 Empty grids filled with density using the opacity curve rendered with different density between 3ds Max and exporting to VRscene