Overview
The Phoenix FD menu is available in the Dynamics menu set. If it's not loading for you, check to make sure the Phoenix plug-in is running. It exposes most of the Phoenix functionality in one place. From these options, Phoenix components can be created.
Phoenix FD Menu
Below is a visual guide to Phoenix options in the Maya menu system.
Chaos Phoenix Preferences... – Launches the Phoenix Global Preferences window.
Create – A menu for creating various Phoenix simulators and modifiers.
3D Simulator – Creates a Simulator node.
2D Simulator – Creates a Simulator node in 2D mode.
Fire/Smoke Source – Creates a Fire Source node.
Liquid Source – Creates a Liquid Source node.
Particle Shader – Creates a Particle Shader node.
Active Body Solver – Creates an Active Body Solver node.
Active Bodies Ground Plane – Creates an Active Bodies Ground Plane node.
Voxel Tuner – Creates a Voxel Tuner node.
Particle Tuner – Creates a Particle Tuner node.
Plain Force – Creates a Plain Force node.
Body Force – Creates a Body Force node.
Follow Path – Creates a Follow Path Force node.
Wave Force – Creates a Wave Force node.
Turbulence – Creates a Turbulence Force node.
Mapper – Creates a Mapper node.
Force Field – Create a Force Field node.
Emitter for particles – Create a Phoenix Emitter node for Particles.
Emitter for nParticles – Create a Phoenix Emitter node for nParticles.
Interactive Creation – Turns on and off the interactive creation of nodes.
Start – Starts simulating the selected Simulator node.
Stop – Stops the current simulation.
Pause – Pauses the current simulation. It remains active in the memory, and pressing Start will unpause it.
Restore – If the velocity channel is exported, Phoenix is able to restore the simulation. This command finds the nearest file containing velocity channel behind the time slider and continues the simulation from it (see the Backup interval parameter).
Clear Cache – Clears the cache of the selected simulator. The simulation will not be stopped.
Reset – A shortcut command to stop the current simulation, clear the output cache, and revert the time slider to the first frame of the simulation.
Submit Simulation to Backburner - Opens a dialog that allows you to set up a network simulation using Backburner.
Submit Simulation to Deadline - Opens a dialog that allows you to set up a network simulation using Deadline.
Edit Sets – Opens Maya's Relationship Editor.
Get Example Scenes – Opens the Example Scenes page in the web browser. Allows users to download a variety of example scenes that were previously shipped with the Phoenix for Maya installation.
Chaos Phoenix Help – Opens the Phoenix for Maya Help page.
Credits and Copyrights – Opens a window that contains all copyright notices for 3rd party code used in Phoenix.
About Chaos Phoenix – Opens a window with information pertaining to the currently installed Phoenix FD version.
The previous Initialize from Object option can still be achieved by setting a Source's Emit Mode type to Volume Brush with a Brush Effect amount at 100%.
Create Window
Phoenix adds Phoenix-specific textures to the Create window and Hypershade. See the Textures section for more information.
