Template Scenes

The scene shows how you can blend three materials in one Phoenix Simulator. There are 3 different Phoenix Sources and each one has a different color for the RGB channel. There is 1 pure red, 1 pure green and 1 pure blue.

A Phoenix Grid Texture is used to read the Grid RGB data from the simulator. Then each color channel of the Phoenix Grid Texture (the red, the green and the blue) are used as masks in a V-Ray Blend Material with 3 different materials used as coats.

The scene is using a very thin Phoenix Simulator and a small emitter cylinder inside a curved tube used to simulate a high pressure water system. In order for the fluid to be directed in a specific direction the Source is using an Emit Material that is placed on one of the faces of the emitter. Everything is set in real scale so it should fit in any project when imported - approximately 10 meters wide and 1,5m. in height.

Additionally the effect is enhanced by V-Ray Environment Fog under the water arc.

The liquid particles from the honey simulation are used in a Phoenix Particle Shader. The Count Multiplier is set to a value of 0.005 so that just only a few particles will be rendered. The render mode for the Particle Shader is set to Bubbles.

Make sure to simulate the liquid with ID channel exported from the Output rollout so that the Count multiplier would always remove the same particles during animation.

The box is used as an emitter and for the Source's Discharge there are two noise textures used as a mask to randomize the emission and create small and big droplets.

In the Dynamics rollout the Surface Tension to 1 so that the liquid can be accumulated in a bigger drops while travelling downwards and a Droplet Formation of 0.4 is set so that droplets can be formed. The Wetting is turned on and some Sticky Liquid is added in order for the drops to stick to the surface.

As we want some drops to stay stationary and some to fall dawn there is a Phoenix Mapper node added which sets the Viscosity for the Grid to 0.2. As this works on the whole grid a noise texture is added as a mask so only some parts will be affected by the Mapper and the rest will not.

The scene shows cascading setup between two simulators. The Phoenix Source clamps the texture values between 0-1 so smoke and fuel will naturally transition fine, but temperature which goes above 1 - up to several thousand Kelvin - will need to be remapped before being plugged into the source. This is why the Remap value map is added after the grid texture reading the temperature channel and remapping it in the 0 to 1 range.

- You need to enable Motion Velocity on the Brush source so that the velocities will be transferred as well and of course you need to have velocity exported from the first sim.
- The area which overlaps will be rendered twice, unless you put a box as a render cutter for the first sim.
- Grid-based self-shadowing won't work between the cascade grids - you need to switch to the slower but more robust Ray-Traced self-shadowing.

The scene uses Plain Force to create the wind. The streamlines are made up of Phoenix Drag particles. they are just carried with the velocity field. The Drag particles are emitted in lines from a box, and a Discharge Modifier with a curve with spikes is used in the Phoenix Source, so the streamlines appear only at certain positions over the emitter box. The top, bottom and side walls of the Grid are jammed, in order to channel the velocity better. Only the front and back walls are open. Forward Transfer advection helps keeping the streamlines tight. Also some Classic Vorticity is used. You could experiment with PCG or Direct Symmetric conservation. Additionally, you could make the grid completely 2D and use Multi-Pass advection which has a little different feel. The Drag particles are emitted with Velocity channel and then Motion Blur is used for the V-Ray rendering.

Unlike particles which have an Age channel, the voxel grid does not have such a channel, but it can easily be achieved by using the RGB color grid channel. In this scene, we emit white smoke from a Source, and a Phoenix Mapper using a Black texture Map and a long Buildup Time gradually modifies the RGB channel of the Simulator and darkens the white color over time. This way the oldest smoke has black RGB channel and the newly emitted is white.

The scene uses a cylinder emitting smoke. The Smoke Source has the Temperature set to 10 Kelvins so the smoke will fall down and the RGB channel is enabled with a white color set. The Mapper's Buildup Time is set to 2 seconds. For the rendering the Smoke color is set to be based on Texture and a Remap Color texture is used. The Remap Color texture uses a Phoenix Grid Texture which reads the RGB channel as an input, representing the age, and then the color is remapped to create a ramp from blue for the youngest Smoke which has RGB of 1, through green, to red for the oldest smoke which has RGB of 0.

The scene uses a few spheres as emitters placed inside of the text. The text is used as Confine geometry so that the simulation is happening only inside its volume. For rendering the Smoke color is set to use the Smoke channel with a blue-green gradient. The text is used as a Cutter Geometry so that only the parts of the smoke that are inside of the text will be rendered.