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This page provides information on the PhoenixFDTexturePhoenix Grid Texture.

Overview

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PhoenixFDTexture can be The Phoenix Grid Texture can be created from the Hypershade. It  It loads and exposes a grid channel of a selected Phoenix simulator object Simulator as a procedural texture. Using this component, you can shade the content in ways that the plain Phoenix shader does not support. This texture can then be plugged into materials as color or opacity and applied to surfaces of liquids or meshes in general. The texture can be plugged into the Fire/Smoke Simulator's volumetric options in order to modulate the opacity of fire and smoke or to color the fire and smoke.

The main application of this texture is for shading the meshed of liquids which were simulated using an RGB color grid channel. The technique of mixing colored liquids and rendering their colors is available in the the Paints Quick Setup preset.

You could also use it as a blending mask, as described in the Milk & Chocolate tutorial for Phoenix FD.

Another use of the PhoenixFDTexture the Grid Texture is for rendering via an external volumetric Shader such as the V-Ray Environment Fog. See the External Volumetric Shader section on the Tips and Tricks page for more information.

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Simulator Node | simNode  – Allows you to specify the PhoenixFDSimulator node. 

Channel | channel  – Specifies the channel retrieved from the Phoenix node:

Rendering Fire Color - Returns the resulting color for the Fire, as specified in the Rendering → Fire tab of the Phoenix FD Simulator.
Rendering Smoke Color - Returns the resulting color for the Smoke, as specified in the Rendering → Smoke tab of the Phoenix FD Simulator.
Rendering Smoke Opacity - Returns the resulting Smoke Opacity, as specified in the Rendering → Smoke Opacity tab of the Phoenix FD Simulator.
Channel Speed - Returns the contents of the Speed simulation channel. Speed Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel Velocity - Returns the contents of the Velocity simulation channel. Velocity Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel RGB - Returns the contents of the RGB simulation channel. RGB Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel Temperature/Liquid - Returns the contents of the Temperature/Liquid simulation channel. Temper./Liquid Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel Smoke - Returns the contents of the Smoke simulation channel. Smoke Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel Fuel - Returns the contents of the Fuel simulation channel. Fuel Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work
Channel Speed - Returns the contents of the Speed simulation channel. Speed Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.
Channel Viscosity - Returns the contents of the Viscosity simulation channel. Viscosity Grid Channel Output has to be enabled on the Phoenix FD Simulator for this to work.

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Single – The texture will not be tiled and the region outside the box will be empty.
Single Clamped – The texture will not be tiled but its edges will be clamped, thus "stretching" the edge pixels.
Wrap – Tiles the texture by repeating it infinitely.
Mirror – Tiles the texture by flipping it back and forth infinitely.

Sampler Type Sampler | samplerType – Determines the blending method between adjacent grid cells.

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Auto Mapping | autoMapping – Allows automatic 3D mapping to the simulator's box, ignoring the place3dTexture node. Note that if the Grid Texture is plugged into a Particle Shader's Color Map slot and Auto Mapping is enabled, Liquid Simulator should also be enabled and connected in the Particle Shader, otherwise the Grid Texture wouldn't know how to get mapped because the Particle Shader has no grid box like the Phoenix Simulator.

Color Scale | outputScaleoutput_scale – Sets Multiplies the color output value values of the selected channelGrid Texture.

Color Offset | outputOffset – Offsets the output value of the selected channeloutput_offset – Multiplies the color output values of the Grid Texture. The values are first scaled by Color Scale and then the Color Offset is added.

Rescale Grid Channel – Rescales the output values of a grid channel to a certain rangeGrid Channel to a certain range. Rescaling using this helper simply measures the data range of the selected Channel and changes the Color Scale and Color Offset options. This means that if you simulate or load a new cache sequence in the Simulator, you will need to do this rescaling again to make sure the Grid Texture values are still in the Min-Max range. Rendering channels such as the Fire Color and Smoke Color/Opacity cannot be rescaled. Rescaling is especially useful when you are reading channels such as Channel Speed or Channel Temperature which can range up to several hundred or thousand, and you want to use them as color or opacity, so you need to scale them down between 0-1, which would require you to set a very small Color Scale multiplier.

Min – Sets the minimum value you want for the Grid Texture output.
Max – Sets the maximum valuevalue you want for the Grid Texture output.
Rescale to Current Frame – Rescales the channel Grid Channel based on the value in the the Channel values only for the current frame. If the Channel changes its range for other timeline frames, the Grid Texture will output values outside the Min-Max range or smaller than that range.
Rescale to Entire Sequence – Rescales the channel based on the values in lowest and highest values of the Channel in the entire cache sequence. Close – Closes the Rescale Grid Channel dialog windowThis will make sure that the values output by the Grid Texture will not exceed Max or go below Min for any frame of the cache sequence.

Skip Displacement | skipDispl – When enabled, the content is sampled without adding Phoenix displacement.

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