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Official release

Date – 16 June, 2020

Download – Build 4.20.00 


With Phoenix FD 4.20 we added support for V-Ray 5 and for 3ds Max 2021.

We also improved our Standalone and 3ds Max previews and added support for Particle Shader Fog mode rendering with V-Ray GPU, and we also added support for particle displacement for Fog mode. Particle Shaders can now be rendered in V-Ray CPU IPR as well.

We improved TexUVW for smoke simulations and implemented filling an emitter's volume with TexUVW and RGB.

Once more we did many changes under the hood so we can develop faster, and as usual we fixed many bugs.


 

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titleNew
 
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titlePhoenix FD
 Support for V-Ray 5

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titlePhoenix FD
 Support for 3ds Max 2021

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titleSources
 Use surface texture maps or vertex color for Volume Brush and Volume Inject modes; Now you can fill volumes with RGB or TexUVW and melt them.

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Support for Particle Shaders in Fog mode in V-Ray Next GPU and V-Ray 5 GPU

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Support for Particle Shaders in V-Ray CPU IPR

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titlePreview
 Velocity Streamline Preview ported to 3ds Max from the Standalone Preview

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colourGreen
titleNew
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Particle Preview in the Standalone Preview 


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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleGrid Solver
 Allow the RGB channel to be transported with Fuel like it does with Smoke

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleScene Body Interaction
 Do not interact with 3ds Max splines as fluid obstacles or emitters unless they are extruded

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Support for displacement in Fog mode of the Particle Shader

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleRender Curves
 Delete Color Gradient points with Backspace

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleGPU Preview
 Use fully transparent black background color when saving images

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titlePreview
 Option to disable the Particle Preview Color Scaling

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleCache I/O
 Sped up and using less memory for blending frames having Grid Velocity or liquid particles (when using Time Bend controls)

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleVolume Shader
 Render Fire without cache data just by offsetting the Fire Opacity curve above zero (Physically Based must be below 1.0)

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Save images in TIFF format

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Optimized the Velocity Streamlines Preview when the Auto Reduction is off

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Split the Log and Info windows

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Renamed the executable from 'standalone_previewer' to 'phoenix_previewer'

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleScripting
 New A_GetGridSize, $.getGridSize and $.getVersion MaxScript functions

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colourYellow
titleImproveD
 
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titleUser Interface
 Renamed 'Frm. Blend' in the Input rollout to 'Grid Blend'

 


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titleremoved
 
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titlePhoenix FD
 Dropped support for V-Ray 3

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colourBlue
titleremoved
 
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titlePhoenix FD
 Dropped support for 3ds Max 2015 


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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleFLIP Solver
 Artifacts with texture mapped Volume Liquid Sources

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleFLIP Solver
 The WetMap particles were born with sizes equal to 1 scene unit, instead of 1 voxel

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleFLIP Solver
 Could not animate the Sticky Liquid option

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleFLIP Solver
 Motion Velocity Multiplier of animated objects had no effect if a Phoenix Simulator with Fillup for Ocean was linked to them

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleFLIP Solver
 Blocky artifacts around submerged geometry with disabled Clear Inside, when simulating with Fillup For Ocean

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleActive Bodies
 Crash when deleting Active Body originals which had MassFX Rigid Body modifier applied

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titlefixed
 
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titleTexUVW
 Incorrect TexUVW on the borders of smoke simulations

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleSources
 The Emit Mode was loaded as Surface Force from saved scenes if any of its emitters were geometries, since Phoenix FD 4.0

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleVolume Shader
 Border Fade did not affect fire in Own Opacity mode

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Crash when rendering a Simulator which is picked directly into a Particle Shader, since Phoenix FD 4.10

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Random crash during sequence render with Liquid simulator checkbox enabled in the Particle shader and Displacement turned on

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleParticle Shader
 Canceling the 'Building Fog' pre-pass did not stop the rendering

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleOcean Mesher
 Ocean Mesh was not constructed properly when Stereo Camera was used with FoV larger than 180

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleMesher
 Motion Blur rendered differently with and without modifiers applied to the Phoenix Mesh

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleCache I/O
 AUR files where the grid data was over 8GB were unreadable

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleCache I/O
 Incorrect positions of recently born particles when retiming a simulation with adaptive grid

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titlePreview
 The green Simulator grid box preview did not account for Resimulation Amp. Resolution

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleGPU Preview
 The Viewport GPU Preview disappeared if the Simulator was flipped by using a negative scale

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 When Flip Up Axes was enabled the caches were rotating on every reload

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Could not type in manually in the Timeline Input box

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 Crash when selecting out of range start or end for saving a sequence

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 GPU Preview was displaying brighter on the first render pass

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 If the preview window was resized, saving an image with *.bmp extension produced a skewed picture

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleStandalone Preview
 The Slice Level slider was not working in negative direction if Z axis was chosen

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleVRScenes
 Phoenix's Atmosphere Gamma Correction was ignored in V-Ray Standalone and was always 1.0

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleToolbar
 Crash when creating a toolbar preset that uses discharge modifiers and then undoing

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleParticle Flow
 Cropped user interface for the PFlow Test operator, since Phoenix FD 3.99

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleInstallation
 Crash when rendering with custom V-Ray for 3ds Max install with 'VRay=' instead of 'V-Ray main plug-ins=' in plugin.ini

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colourRed
titlefixed
 
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titleSDK
 aurloader_s required missing vfree and vmalloc symbols