This page introduces the FireSmokeSim object and its rollouts.
The Fire/Smoke Simulator is intended to produce realistic fire, smoke and explosion effects. The dynamics governing the simulation are based on real-world physics. The Fire/Smoke Simulator uses a grid-based core (a 3-dimensional array of voxels). The simulated channels are transferred through the grid based on the specified parameter values. The result of the simulation is a sequence of cache files containing the simulated channels (Temperature, Smoke, etc). These cache files are used later in the rendering process to convert the raw simulation data into realistic images. The simulator is represented as a single object for convenience. Internally, it contains two completely separate parts: a simulator component and a rendering component. Parameters that control the simulation are separated from those associated with the shading and rendering. As a result, no roll-out will contain mixed parameters, and no parameter will affect both the simulation and rendering. |
After creating a FireSmokeSim object, the following rollouts can be accessed in the Modify panel:
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Due to many improvements to the Phoenix solver, recreating simulations the same way you did in older versions of Phoenix may not be possible because of changes to the solvers and the UI. Here are some things to be aware of when upgrading from older versions of Phoenix FD.
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