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title Active bodies

 New rigid body solver node, interacting with the Liquid Simulator. No mutual interaction between rigid bodies yet

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colour Green title New

 

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title phoenix fd

 New TexUVW channel for fire/smoke and liquid simulations, moving with the fluid and allowing for render-time texture mapping of surfaces and volume color and opacity, as well as for adding displaced detail moving with the fluid in all render modes

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colour Green title New

 

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title voxel tuner

 New node allowing to change any grid channel during simulation depending on conditions based on grid channel values, textures or distance to meshes

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle tuner

 New node allowing to change any particle channel or delete particles during simulation depending on conditions based on particle channel values

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colour Green title New

 

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title Preview

 New Standalone Previewer tool for AUR, VDB and F3D cache files, much faster than the 3ds Max and Maya viewports and currently showing voxels and a new velocity streamline preview

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colour Green title New

 

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title Grid Solver

 Simulate the RGB channel for Drag particles

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title installation

 Now Phoenix FD can load in Maya and simulate without V-Ray installed

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Optimized Birth Volumes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Solver

 Apply the Initial Vel. Rand. option not just to newborn Splash, but to splitting splash particles as well

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title particle shader

 Speed up and improve CPU utilization for Optimizing Particle Congestion with large cache files

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title render curves

 Copy-paste support for render gradients and curves

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Sped up Grid RGB channel saving to compressed AUR cache files up to 8 times

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Save and load Grid Viscosity from VDBs created by Phoenix

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title CACHE I/O

 Sped up loading of VDB caches by reading their min-max channel ranges from metadata instead of calculating them

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title CACHE I/O

 Added cache info to VDB caches describing which version of Phoenix FD was used during simulation

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Maya Integration

 Name the Linux '.so' libraries in the plug-ins directory '.phxso' so they don't appear in the Plug-in Manager window

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Maya Integration

 Do not load caches while the timeline changes during sequence vrscene export or render

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title user interface

 Renamed "Use Light Cache" to "Volume Light Cache" so it's not confused with V-Ray's Light Cache

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title USER INTERFACE

 Enabled Motion Velocity in Sources by default for new scenes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title USER INTERFACE

 Changed Mapper's Initializer option to off by default for new scenes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title sdk

 Renamed aura_ver.h to phoenix_ver.h

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title sdk

 Removed grid and particle channel defines from aurinterface.h

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Scene Body Interaction

 Hang during simulation if interacting with geometries with zero-area triangles

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid solver

 Random hang when stopping a fire/smoke simulation affected by a force and starting it again

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid solver

 Some voxels lose velocity and freeze using Massive Vorticity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title volumetric shader

 Crash with caches over 2.1 billion voxels with Phoenix Light Cache, since Phoenix FD 3.12

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title particle shader

 Reflections of excluded area lights still showed up on a Particle Shader's Bubbles/Splashes

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mesher

 Phoenix Mesh mode with a 2D scalar Displacement map rendered with artifacts

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title ocean mesher

 Enabling the Underwater Goggles option had no effect since Phoenix FD 3.12

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title preview

 Particle Preview was not cleared when hiding the Simulator

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Exported FLIP VDBs from Phoenix for Maya contained random values for the Smoke channel if it was enabled in Output

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Simulating the Fire/Smoke Temperature channel to VDB incorrectly showed the minimum data range as 0, instead of 300

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Drag particles exported to VDB could not render with motion blur even with exported grid velocity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title preview

 Jittering Preview with Detail reduction and Adaptive grid

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title gpu preview

 Images saved from the GPU Preview in Simple Smoke mode had different smoke opacity than the viewport

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title grid texture

 Mel error when rescaling a Grid Texture channel if the Grid Texture was not selected in the attribute editor

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title ocean texture

 Vertical Offset of the Ocean Texture did offset the displaced ocean horizontally

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title OCEAN TEXTURE

 Bucket artifacts when rendering an Ocean Texture used as a color map for a material

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title body force

 Crash when simulating using a Body Force node without an object, since Phoenix FD 3.13

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title mapper

 Mapper's Initializer option was not working with Liquid simulators

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title maya Integration

 If the Simulation license dropped during Maya batch simulation, Phoenix did not try to re-acquire it and canceled the simulation

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title submitting simulations

 Overriding the cache output directory with the Backburner submitter in Maya was not working