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title Phoenix

 Support for 3ds Max 2024

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title Standalone Simulator

 Support for geometries and Sources in the Scene Interaction Include/Exclude list

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title Submitting Simulations

 Generate images from the cache sequence after Deadline simscene simulations

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title Sources

 Source option to create velocities in a certain direction or based on a texmap

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title user Interface

 Implemented the Simulation, Rendering, Preview, Scene Interaction and Input rollouts in QT so the Simulator shows faster when selected. Now these rollout can also float, be pinned or docked anywhere in 3ds Max

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title user Interface

 New floating GUI via a Phoenix Main window where all the floating rollouts can be docked and the layout is saved to max scenes and preserved between 3ds Max sessions

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title user Interface

 New 'Simulation Speed' rollout, showing the heaviest computation phases during simulation with tips on how to speed them up

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title Presets

 Automatically create geometry for Toolbar Presets if none is selected 

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Apply the Splash "Initial Velocity Multiplier" when splash particles split into smaller ones, not just when they are born from liquid particles

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Changed the defaults of the Max Outside Age, Splash Amount, Splash To Mist, Splash Split, Mist Air Drag, Splash Initial Vel. Multiplier and Randomization to more realistic ones

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Sped up liquid simulations by up to 15%

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Speed up with WetMap simulation up to 2x

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title Fire/Smoke Solver

 New "Use GPU to Aid Simulation" option that runs the PCG Fluidity (Conservation) method on GPU, which could speed up the simulation overall

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title Active Bodies

 Option in the Axis Lock to lock the rotation of the Active Body to the original. This allows boats to lean while turning if this is a part of the original animation

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title Sources

 After the 5.10 speedup, sped up more and reduced memory usage when emitting from hundreds of thousands particles, and also fixed a specific setup which slowed down - now some scenes are 5x faster than 5.10 and 25x faster than 5.01

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title Standalone Simulator

 Turn off the 'Read Cache for Preview' option of Simulators during simscene export to make the timeline scrolling faster

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title Ocean Mesher

 Support for rendering ocean with adaptive grid expanding vertically

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title Mesher

 Motion Blur support for Phoenix meshes with Arnold

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title Submitter

 Now the Phoenix installer ships the Deadline plugin for simscene submission - it's located in Phoenix's installation under a deadline_plugin directory, and must be copied to the 'plugins' directory in your Deadline repository

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title Cache I/O

 Sped up writing of VDB caches from the simulation or from the cache_converter with 30%

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title Cache I/O

 Sped up simulations using the Grid Velocity channel in the Output rollout (even if the Cacheless Simulation option ON) with up to 5%

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title GPU Preview

 Made the Background Color of the Extended GPU Preview global for all Simulators, accessible via right click menu in the viewport

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title Preview

 Automatically enable viewport visibility and render visibility for the auto generated preview splines

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title Preview

 Swapped the minimum and maximum thresholds for the voxel preview ranges - now the minimum is on top and the maximum is below

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title Preview

 Equalized the 3ds Max Slice Preview GUI with the one in Maya

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title Preview

 Sped up the particle preview of AUR caches from moving simulations when Auto Scale Color is ON

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title Animation

 New 'Auto Origin' control in the Input rollout for automatically setting the Cache Origin and Timeline Origin to the beginning of the loaded sequence

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title TexUVW

 Isosurface render mode support for TexUVW in vrscenes exported from 3ds Max

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title Particle Texture

 Improved the loading speed of particle systems in the Phoenix Particle Texture when Motion Blur is enabled

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title Submitting Simulations

 Show simulation progress when submitting .max scenes through Deadline via the Phoenix FD menu

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title User Interface

 New Windows icons of the Cache Converter, Standalone Preview, Standalone Simulator and the Node Viewer, as well as the associated AUR, VDB, F3D, PRT and SIMSCENE file formats

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title User Interface

 Show an error at the start of the simulation if the PHX_FOR_3DSMAX20NN_BIN environment variable is missing

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title Presets

 Speed up the simulation of the Paints preset by enabling 'Render-time Only' on the Grid Texture used for coloring the mesh with the Grid RGB

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title Cache Converter

 Extended the "Unrecognized Argument" error message when the input path was not with the correct format

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title User Interface

 Hid the 'Lighting' option from the GPU Preview section - it's always ON by default 

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Movement of a Simulator with Fillup For Ocean caused the open boundaries to interact with the fluid

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Setting a Phoenix Simulator as a Birth Volume was not working

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Animating the 'Splash To Mist' to zero deleted all existing Mist particles

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Foam Volume higher than 0 caused Foam particles to pass through the Simulator's jammed walls

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Crash during simulation if an obstacle inside the Liquid Simulator is hidden and then unhidden, since Phoenix 5.00

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title Active Bodies

 Crash when starting active body simulation while editing an active body original's working pivot

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title Active Bodies

 Restoring a simulation with Active Bodies made the original bodies renderable

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title Active Bodies

 Restoring an Active Body simulation did offset the animation curve at the restore point

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title Active Bodies

 Active Bodies with center of mass different than the pivot moved differently than manually animated ones

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Bodies rotating very slowly were not updated by the simulator every frame, especially with high number of Steps Per Frame

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Changing the Geom Surface Voxels in the Scene Interaction rollout during simulation did not have any effect

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title Rendering

 Hidden or non renderable Phoenix Simulator did not work as Simulator Render Cutter or Particle Shader Render Cutter

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title Volume Shader

 Crash on render end with instanced Simulators in Corona

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title Volume Shader

 Wrong Grid-based Volumetric Motion Blur with VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0

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title Volume Shader

 Crash when basing the Smoke Color on the Speed channel of VDBs whose bounding box does not start at 0,0,0

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title Volume Shader

 Hang when rendering in Volumetric Geometry Mode with disabled Volume Light Cache

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title Volume Shader

 Fire in Fully Visible mode did not render when Based On was set to the Grid RGB channel

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title Volumetric Illumination

 Self-illumination of the Fire did not work if Based On was set to the Grid RGB channel

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title Particle Shader

 Rendering slow-down with Particle Shader in Bubbles mode with Volume Light cache disabled on NUMA machines between V-Ray 5 and V-Ray 6

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title Particle Shader

 Particle Shader with Color Map rendered differently between 3ds Max and V-Ray Standalone when the texture was in Object XYZ space

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title Particle Shader

 Black artifacts with Particle Shader in Points mode when there were many points on top of each other and the Point Radius or the Shadow Strength were high

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title Isosurface Rendering

 Crash when rendering in Isosurface Render Mode and a Gradient Ramp texture, set to Lighting Gradient Type, was used as a V-Ray Environment texture map

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title V-Ray IPR

 Crash when quickly changing frames during V-Ray IPR CPU rendering with Motion Blur

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title V-Ray IPR

 Changing the frame during V-Ray IPR CPU didn't update the cache file correctly with Motion Blur enabled

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title Mesher

 No mesh motion blur when rendering with Redshift, since Phoenix 5.00

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title 3ds Max Integration

 Crash with a Bend modifier applied over Auto Baked streamline splines while scrubbing the timeline or on render start

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title 3ds Max Integration

 The simulation kept interacting with objects hidden using Hide by Category

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title GPU Preview

 Saved images from the GPU preview with frames outside the timeline had cache indices clamped to the nearest timeline frame

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title GPU Preview

 When Scattering was set to Disabled, the 'External Scatter Mult.' still affected the GPU Preview

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title GPU Preview

 Setting 'Load Cache For Preview' to 'Disable During Sim' and starting a simulation did not clear the GPU Preview

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title Standalone Preview

 'Save Sequence' saved only one image if used after 'Save Current Frame'

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title Preview

 Streamlines preview was not updated correctly until the current frame was changed

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title Preview

 The streamlines viewport preview was transformed in an incorrect way in certain cases

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title Preview

 Mesh for native streamlines object was not generated properly when the streamlines did sharp turns

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title Preview

 Enabling the Force voxel preview disabled all the other voxel previews

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title Cache I/O

 Renaming a Simulator to the name of an existing one deleted the cache files of the existing one if the Output directory was using $(nodename) macro

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title Cache I/O

 Simulating to VDB did not show correct simulation info in the Simulation rollout

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title Cache I/O

 Can't open the particle ID channel of particle systems that have more than 268 million particles from AUR cache files

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title Cache Converter

 Converting from a VDB with vector3 color to AUR lost the background color and made it black

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title Cache Converter

 Crash if decompressing the ID channel of an AUR particle channel fails

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title Property Lister

 The Property Lister Mass/Density option did not change when changing the selected preset and remained in Cork mode

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title Foam Texture

 Foam Texture did not render when the connected Ocean Texture' Rate of Change was set to 0

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title Ocean Texture

 Ocean Texture used in VRayDisplacementMod prompted to adjust the settings of the modifier each time V-Ray IPR was started

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title PRT Reader

 The PRT reader's 'Velocity multiplier' option didn't affect the render unless the frame was changed

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title PRT Reader

 PRT sequences containing numbers and # format specifiers couldn't be rendered using the Particle Shader with V-Ray GPU or in vrscenes

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title Submitting Simulations

 Submitting a Deadline .max simulation job reset the Frame Range in the Render Settings

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title User Interface

 'Own Light Scatter Mult' and 'External Scatter Mult' were not greyed out when Scattering mode was Disabled or Ray-Traced

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title User Interface

 Enabling Initial Liquid Fill or Solid from the Phoenix Node Properties did not grey out many of the Active Body properties

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 Don't show Phoenix Node Properties for Tuners, Mappers, PRT Readers, Phoenix Forces and Lights

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title User Interface

 In 3ds Max 2019 and 2020, opening a saved scene with Simulator QT combo boxes whose default was not the 1st element but was set to the 1st element, showed a wrong element, since Phoenix 5.10