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colour Green title New

 

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title PRT I/O

 Emit fluid from Phoenix PRTReader particles and Krakatoa PRTLoader particles in the Phoenix Sources

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colour Green title New

 

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title Standalone Preview

 GPU Preview for fire in the Standalone Preview

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colour Green title New

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Controls for the GPU Preview light direction

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colour Green title New

 

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title SDK

 Now the Particle Shader exposes PhoenixVolumeShaderInterface and can be sampled in Fog mode using IPhoenixFDVolRendSampler

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colour Green title New

 

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title SDK

 New IPhoenixFDParticleRendData interface for obtaining the particle rendering data of a Particle Shader in non-Fog modes 

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Sped up FLIP particle resimulation with 10%, up to 20% on some scenes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Do not offset the Foam particles vertically during simulation

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Active Bodies

 Pop-up menu with density presets in the right-click properties of bodies

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Particle Shader

 Sped up the particle collection rendering pre-process up to 5 times

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Isosurface Rendering

 Expose the Sampler option for Isosurface rendering in the Liquid Simulator

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Preview

 Sped up loading of new frames for the Particle Preview with 20%

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Cache I/O

 Store velocity of Drag particles in their particle data instead of in the Grid Velocity. Added an Output Drag Particle Velocity option to Sources

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Options to save a range of frames and a single frame

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Text box for the loaded cache file info

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Standalone Preview

 By default name the saved image files the same way as the input cache files

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Image saving to PNG files

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title User Interface

 Don't warn about the interacting forces if the Simulator is in Include List interaction mode

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colour Blue title removed

 

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title Particle Shader

 Removed the Particle Shader Liquid Tint and Liquid Turbidity options

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colour Blue title removed

 

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title Sources

 The 'Can Pick Simulators' option is now On by default and hidden from Sources and can be accessed only through script using 'pick_ph' 

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 When using Variable Viscosity, some particles were not behaving properly

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title FLIP Solver

 FLIP particles resimulation produced NaN-values with Simulate Air Effects

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid Solver

 Failing to load cache for resimulation displayed an error message, but did not stop the resimulation

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title simulation general

 During the first restore frame, bodies in the simulation had incorrect velocities

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 All modifiers keys were erased at simulation startup when the object was set as Active Body

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Restoring an Active Body simulation broke the animation of the original objects

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Active Bodies were falling slower with more Steps per Frame

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Don't show per-node Phoenix properties on the Active Bodies center of mass helpers

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title volume shader

 A Phoenix smoke volume inside a Mesh with Refraction Glossiness below 1.0 rendered blocky

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title volume shader

 Random artifacts when rendering smoke using Volume Light Cache in Volumetric Geometry mode

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Count Multiplier above 1 did not preserve the positions and sizes of the created particles in animation

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Rendering a Particle Shader with Liquid Simulator selected used extra memory

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Particle Shader in Points Mode rendered incorrectly using a 360 V-Ray Spherical Camera

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Crash when attempting to render a Particle Shader with V-Ray GPU

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Zooming In and Out during V-Ray IPR was not working correctly while Particle Shader pre-passes acquired the focus

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 The Velocity Render Element of a Particle Shader in Points mode was not affected by the Motion Blur Multiplier

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title isosurface rendering

 Crash when rendering in Isosurface mode using V-Ray Volume Scatter material

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title texuvw

 Source UVW variation using inherited UVW from Geometry was not consistent during simulation

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title expressions

 Crash when changing the tiling or offset of a texture selected in an expression

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mesher

 Crash rendering two Simulators when one uses the other as a Cutter and also its material has Distance Texture pointing to the other one

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title ocean mesher

 Some Ocean Mesh normals pointed downwards with V-Ray Spherical camera and FOV over 180 degrees

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Enabling RGB Input smoothing for a Mesh which was shaded using RGB from a Grid Texture had no effect until changing the frame

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Handled some out-of-memory in case of saving Grid RGB to cache files or when blending cache files

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Could not use General Purpose Time Bend Resimulation when the base caches were VDB instead of AUR

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title prt i/o

 The Phoenix particle Size was incorrect when exported to the Scale channel of PRT files

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title gpu preview

 The GPU Preview disappeared if the camera went inside it

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title gpu preview

 Crash with caches which had transformations with negative or fractional offsets, since Phoenix FD 3.99

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title gpu preview

 Randomly appearing colored artifacts with the GPU Preview when using Detail Reduction, since Phoenix FD 4.0

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid texture

 The Grid Texture could pick Phoenix Particle System nodes

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Crash when cancelling the first cache open dialog

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Standalone Preview

 If 'Enable GPU Preview' was turned on, the Standalone Preview didn't save files after pressing the "Save" button

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Standalone Preview

 Sometimes the Standalone Voxel Preview drew in slices the first time a cache was loaded

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache converter

 Cache Converter did output empty VDB files, since Phoenix FD 3.99

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds max integration

 Could not pick Particle Flow events in the Scene Interaction rollout - only the PF Source got added

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title 3ds max integration

 Switching between two different Grid, Ocean or Particle Textures in the old Material Editor did not update some of their GUI elements