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Date – 15 April, 2021

Download – Build 4.40.00

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Active Bodies collision

Complete control over collisions between Active Bodies using the Bullet solver. Easily create effects such as colliding ice cubes in liquid, floating ocean debris or objects washed away in floods.

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Color Absorption

A whole new level of volume rendering effects using Colored Absorption. Achieve more control over smoke shading—change the light’s color as it travels through smoke.

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Massive Wave Force

Build highly realistic ocean simulations. Create real-world ocean waves, using the Massive Wave Force feature.

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Extended motion blur support on V-Ray GPU

Leverage GPU power to add motion blur to splashes and bubble mode in the Particle Shader.

Faster rendering and simulations

Take advantage of various speed gains on simulation, rendering and previews.

Property Lister window

Quickly access and change the Phoenix properties of each object in your scene—all in one place.

Autodesk Maya 2022 support

Phoenix is now compatible with the latest Autodesk releases.

With Phoenix FD 4.40 we added support for Maya 2022.

We implemented mutual collisions between Active Bodies so now you can create complex rigid body dynamics with Phoenix. In order to aid scenes with many interacting objects, we added a new Property Lister window, allowing you quick access to the per-node properties of the scene nodes.

Simulations of large scale stormy oceans or tunnel waves are now possible with the new Massive Wave Force.

A new colored absorption option allows for more interesting volume rendering effects, and can also be mapped via a texture. We added support for motion blur of Bubbles and Splashes in V-Ray GPU (requires a latest V-Ray 5).

The Phoenix standalone previewer can now be fully controlled via the command line, allowing you to change options and save image sequences of cache files in all different preview modes.

In this version of Phoenix, we multithreaded all remaining parts of the simulation, and also sped up the simulation, previews and rendering significantly.

We improved our shelf presets, added more options to the cache converter tool, and as always, fixed many issues.

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Support for 3ds Max 2022 (GPU preview and velocity streamline preview are temporarily disabled)

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Mutual interaction between Active Bodies, using the Bullet Solver option

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title	simulation general

Phoenix Property Lister window for quickly editing many obstacles or Active Bodies in the scenе

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title	volume shader

Absorption color for volume rendering which can also be mapped by a texture

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Render the Fully Visible Fire Opacity Mode together with the Use Probabilistic Shading option

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title	particle shader

Render the Particle Shader in Bubbles/Splashes mode with motion blur on V-Ray GPU, requires a latest V-Ray nightly as well

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title	standalone preview

Command line interface allowing to script image saving using different preview modes and options

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title	Asset Management

Support for Simulator cache files using the Transfer Missing Assets option in V-Ray's DR

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title	wave force

Massive Wave Force allowing to exactly replicate the Ocean waves, to affect any Phoenix channel, even without Fillup for Ocean, and use any Level Of Detail of the Ocean Texture

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title	Maya Integration

Option to start a render after each simulation frame is completed - 'Render On Each Sim Frame' in the Simulation rollout

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Support for simulations using Z Up axis

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title	Build

Build Phoenix for Maya 2019, 2020 and 2022 for V-Ray 5 on Centos 7 instead of Centos 6

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title	Simulation General

Sped up low res simulations (below 10 million voxels) with up to 15%

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title	Simulation General

Enabled Grid Velocity for all Simulators and presets by default

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title	FLIP Solver

Emit pressure from Liquid Sources In Volume Inject mode without emitting liquid

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Allow Birth Volumes to interact with the simulation even if they are hidden

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title	FLIP Solver

Sped up FLIP simulations with up to 25%

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title	Active Bodies

A new 'Collision Margin' parameter which you can lower in order to keep groups of bodies in contact

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title	Active Bodies

Made it possible to select the Active Body's originals in the Maya viewport. They need to be manually hidden from rendering though

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title	Sources

Affect RGB and Viscosity using Discharge Modifiers

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Affect Motion Velocity of Sources emitting from geometries and particles, using Discharge Modifiers

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Sped up texture mapped emitters by improving their multithreading

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title	Volume Shader

The scattering strength is now equalized with 3ds Max and is correct

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title	Particle Shader

Sped up frame begin and frame end of the Particle Shader in Bubbles/Splashes/Cellular and Points Mode, especially with huge numbers of particles

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title	Mesher

Mesh surface from the Viscosity channel

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title	Cache I/O

Sped up particle compression when writing AUR files. Older Phoenix versions will not be able to read the new AUR files

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Read VDB particle channels named 'point_velocity', 'point_size' and 'point_age'

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title	ABC I/O

Support for the new VRayProxy in V-Ray 5 as an emitter, obstacle, or Active Body

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title	Ocean Mesher

Ocean Mesh support for camera Overscan parameters

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title	Presets

Improved the Gasoline Explosion Shelf Quick Setup preset

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Improved the Burning Fuel Shelf Quick Setup preset

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Option to disable preview cache load during simulation or when not rendering

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Sped up viewport performance of many Simulator copies

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title	GPU Preview

Support for orthographic projection in the GPU Preview and image saving

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Options for specifying the resolution of the saved images

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Option for enabling orthographic projection

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title	Cache Converter

-exportchannels option allowing you to write only specific channels to the output cache files

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-removegridch and -removeprt options allowing stripping of grid and particle channels from the cache files

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title	Scripting

Keep the Script File path relative to the Maya project so it can be found when the scene is moved

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title	Shelf

Delete caches from the Phoenix Shelf without a selected Simulator, using left click (there already is a right click menu on the Shelf button as well)

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title	User Interface

Added a new 'Credits and Copyrights' window, accessible via the 'Phoenix FD' menu

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Dropped support for Maya 2017

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Hidden the Particle TexUVW export option from the Output rollout

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Random Memory allocation error under Linux

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title	FLIP Solver

Emitting Foam/Splash from rigged geometry via a Source in Surface Force mode with Motion Velocity did not set the initial velocity of the particles

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The Foam Birth Volume did not prevent foam to be born by the Splash's Foam On Hit

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Lower Sticky Liquid multiplier values in scenes with overall low Sticky strength resulted in stronger Sticky interaction

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Foam and Splash particles could be born by a Source one voxel further outside the grid's positive sides

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Liquid Particles flew to infinity when animated Time Scale reached value of 0

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Using Foam Patterns caused some foam particles to get stuck at the liquid surface near geometries

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Liquid was creeping up the walls of Confine Geometry, and Liquid and Foam particles sometimes got shot away on collision with Confine Geometry

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title	Active Bodies

The Active Bodies Ground plane elasticity affected the elasticity of the collision objects as well

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title	Cacheless Simulations

Sometimes more than 1 frame remained in RAM

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The Grid RGB channel was not visible in Cacheless frames

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Turning off Phoenix Source's Motion Velocity checkbox did not disable the velocity effect in Surface Force mode

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Volumes were not affected by the V-Ray GI engine multipliers

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Setting the Self-Shadowing of the Fire lights to None fell back to the Ray-Traced mode using V-Ray, since Phoenix 3.13

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Rare random crash or memory leak when starting and stopping V-Ray GPU rendering

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title	Volume Shader

Wrong sampling of smoke opacity maps by the Volume Shader when TexUVW was enabled

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title	Volumetric Illumination

Fire Lights were visible in surfaces with Reflection Glossiness below 1

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title	Render Elements

Crash when rendering several Particle Shaders which used different values for the Particle Age Render Element option

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title	Particle Shader

The Particle Shader "Fog" Mode was not rendering with V-Ray GPU 5 when Render as Geometry was enabled

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Disable Liquid Shadows was not working in Points mode with Volume Light Cache enabled, or Bubbles and Cellular mode, since Phoenix 4.10

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Crash during IPR of a Particle Shader in Bubbles mode with Render as Geometry ON

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title	TexUVW

Crash when simulating TexUVW interpolation with certain Time Scale values

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title	Cache I/O

Crash when rendering VDB particles with V-Ray Next

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Crash when exporting the ID channel of a particle system with more than 536'870'911 particles. Older Phoenix versions will not be able to read the new AUR files

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title	ABC I/O

Fixed several random crashes when emitting from Alembic files loaded via V-Ray Proxy. A latest V-Ray 5 is also needed

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title	ABC I/O

Using certain Alembic files via V-Ray Proxy as emitters worked incorrectly

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title	ABC I/O

Vertex Velocity of geometry loaded via V-Ray Proxy was ignored by Phoenix Sources

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title	Body Force

Body Force's Spread Speed could create huge velocities if the affected channel had negative values

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title	Wave Force

Lowering the Rate of Change of the Ocean Texture reduced the effect of the Wave Force

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title	Grid Texture

Crash during Maya Batch rendering with a Grid Texture reading the RGB channel, since Phoenix 4.30

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title	Preview

Missing frames in the viewport right after simulation restore

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title	Preview

Crash when previewing particles and simulating the same frame with less particles since Phoenix 4.30

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Auto Reduction didn't raise the Detail Reduction correctly with many Simulators in the scene

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title	Preview

Crash when turning on Velocity Streamlines preview while having Force preview turned on

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title	GPU Preview

Crash when using the Legacy Viewport

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title	Standalone Preview:

Saved images were always recorded with the default name and in the default path on Linux

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Save file dialogue was breaking when canceling it on Linux

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title	nParticles

Crash when rendering nParticles system created by the Phoenix's Simulator particle groups with V-Ray 5

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title	User Interface

Stopping the simulation using Esc/Shift+Esc sometimes worked even when the Maya window was not focused

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title	User Interface

Aborting a Simulation where the Output cache path didn't exist was not working, since Phoenix 4.30

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title	Maya Integration

If a crash occurred during Maya Batch, the cache files were moved from the default path to a temporary folder

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title	Maya Integration

Modify -> Center Pivot did not work correctly for loaded caches which did not overlap the grid origin

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title	Maya Integration

Simulators with identical shape names under different transforms rendered identical even when using different caches

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If a project was not set, cache paths did not load correctly from a scene saved with the project and with the paths pointing inside the project directory

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Active Bodies collision

Color Absorption

Massive Wave Force

Extended motion blur support on V-Ray GPU

Faster rendering and simulations

Property Lister window

Autodesk Maya 2022 support