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title flip solver

 New 'Size Variation' and 'Stringy' options for the Foam Pattern shapes, allowing for more diverse and interesting patterns

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title flip solver

 Multithreaded the routine where moving obstacles push the FLIP particles

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title fire/smoke solver

 'Burn Smoke RGB' color option for coloring the smoke created by fuel burning

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title Active bodies

 Pick Active Bodies as emitters in Sources, as attractors in Body Force, in 'Distance To' fields in Tuner Expressions, as Birth Volumes and Render Cutters

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title Active bodies

 New Thruster node for the Active Bodies, allowing you to propel an active body in a certain direction, which can also be attached to the body so it changes direction as the body rotates

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title Active bodies

 New Axis Constraint node for the Active Bodies, allowing you to block the movement of the active body in a certain direction, or to also stop the active body from rotating around a certain axis

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title Active bodies

 New option in the Active Body Solver to use the Simulator's jammed walls as obstacles for Active Bodies

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title Active bodies

 Added an 'Affect by Foam' option to the Active Body Solver that controls how strongly the Foam pushes the Active Bodies - by default it is off

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title Active bodies

 Use Cosmos assets as Active Bodies (latest V-Ray 5 is needed)

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title voxel shader

 New separate Voxel Shader node, allowing shading of both fire/smoke and meshes from the loaded data of the same Simulator without having to duplicate the Simulator

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title particle shader

 Option to flatten particles near the Liquid Simulator's borders in Ocean Mesh mode, like the vertices of the ocean do

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title prt i/o

 PRT cache import straight into the Simulator and the Standalone Preview, without the need for a PRT Reader node. This also allows retiming of PRT sequences

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title standalone simulator

 New "phoenixfd" command-line executable that simulates .simscene files exported from 3ds Max, similar to V-Ray Standalone. It simulates up to 40% faster than inside 3ds Max or Maya. Currently it only supports Simulator and Source nodes, as well as Phoenix node properties. Still to be added are: Foam/Splash options, support for animated options and animated geometries, resimulation, textures

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title Standalone Simulator

 Phoenix FD menu option to Export, Simulate and simultaneously launch the Standalone Preview application to observe the simulation result

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title Standalone Simulator

 Added a Phoenix Node Viewer application for exploring the node graph of .simscene files. Dragging and dropping would also display .vrscene files

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title standalone preview

 Mesh Preview, including wireframe mode, customizable via the command line

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title standalone preview

 Viscosity Voxel Preview

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title gpu preview

 Smoke Opacity modulated or replaced by textures will show in the viewport GPU Preview

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title cache converter

 Reduce or increase grid resolution with the cache_converter tool

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title Toolbar

 Simulation Restore button in the Phoenix toolbar

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title presets

 New 'Jet Engine' and 'Stormy Sea' quick setup toolbar presets

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title presets

 New 'Ice Cubes' and 'Speedboat' quick setup toolbar presets

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title phoenix

 macOS support and notarized Phoenix app bundle

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title phoenix

 Support for Maya 2023

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title phoenix

 Windows 11 support for NUMA machines. Windows Vista is no longer supported after this change and the minimum supported version is Windows 7

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title fire/smoke solver

 Sped up fire/smoke simulations with up to 20%

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title fire/smoke solver

 Multi-threaded the Adaptive Grid of fire/smoke simulations when Preallocation is On

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title fire/smoke solver

 Repeatedly increase the resolution using resimulation that overwrites the same cache sequence

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title flip solver

 FLIP resimulation now writes caches to new "_resim" files instead of overwriting the old ones

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title flip solver

 Sped up and improved thread balance of liquid simulations with moving obstacles

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title flip solver

 Improved Foam 'B2B Interaction' and Splash 'Liquid-Like' that don't shoot particles away and can now be used even with Ocean setups

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title flip solver

 Allowed values below 1 for the 'Mist Amount' option and excluded it from affecting how fast Splash particles are deleted

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title flip solver

 Made the default Foam 'Half Life' 10 like in 3ds Max

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title flip solver

 Ocean Simulations with Adaptive Grid can now expand upwards without the ocean level changing

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title simulation

 Sped up simulations with enabled Motion Inertia that don't actually move

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title simulation

 Allowed rendering with V-Ray GPU while the CPU simulation is running in both IPR and production modes. With V-Ray CPU, the simulation is paused during rendering

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title active bodies

 New model for calculating buoyancy of Active Bodies, allowing better interaction with the Wave Force in large scale ocean vessel setups

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title active bodies

 'Collider Type' option in the Node Properties, allowing choice between fast or precise collision options

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title volume shader

 Reduced the required V-Ray GPU memory when rendering fire/smoke volumes

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title volume shader

 Sped up render start with thousands of simulator copies

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title particle shader

 Fall back to Bubble mode when rendering with V-Ray GPU in Point mode

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title animation

 Sped up 2x frame blending with Time Bend controls

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Updated OpenVDB from version 5 to version 8.1

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Sparsify VDBs exported by the Phoenix simulation or the Cache Converter so now they are generally smaller

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Recognize by default Velocity(x), Velocity(y) and Velocity(z) channels from VDBs from thinkingParticles

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title cache i/o

 Show the sizes on storage of the different data chunks in AUR files in the Standalone Preview and Cache Converter

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title standalone preview

 The Phoenix installer now associates the Phoenix Previewer as default program for opening AUR, VDB, F3D and PRT files

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title standalone preview

 Drag & drop AUR, VDB, F3D and PRT caches in the Phoenix Previewer

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title standalone preview

 'Auto Load Latest' option that monitors the storage for newly appearing sequence files

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title standalone preview

 Right click menu over the loaded cache directory for copying the full path or just the file name

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title logging

 'Log Verbosity' option in the Phoenix Preferences that has these levels: Debug, Info, Important, Warnings and Errors. Low res simulations can be 10% faster in 'Important' compared to 'Debug'

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title presets

 Faster and better looking Fire quick setup toolbar preset

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title presets

 Increased the brightness of the Cold Smoke quick setup toolbar preset

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title presets

 Increased the height and tweaked the colors of the Candle quick setup toolbar preset

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title presets

 Use just one Particle Shader for all emitters in the Ink in Water quick setup toolbar preset, and shade using the new 'Color From Particle RGB Channel' option

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title presets

 Improved the simulation and rendering of the Ocean toolbar quick setup preset and made it more like the Ship example scene

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title particle texture

 Allowed selecting channels that are not available in the entire cache sequence in the Color From Particle Channel box

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title plain force

 Affect Temperature, Smoke and Fuel separately by turning off the new 'Affect All Fire/Smoke Channels' option

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title maya integration

 Create a set if it does not exist when opening the Sets Editor from the Particle Shader, Particle Texture, Source and Simulator Interaction

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title user interface

 Renamed the 'Droplet Breakup' option to 'Droplet Formation' in order to be more clear what the option does

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title user interface

 Renamed the 'B2B Interaction' option to 'Foam Volume' in order to be more clear what the option does

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title user interface

 Show a warning saying that Foam on Hit Resimulation requires Splashes to be resimulated

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title installation

 The installer no longer places vray_phoenix, field3dio_phx, openvdbio_phx and distance_measurer_phx in V-Ray's plugins directory; Instead it appends the VRAY_FOR_MAYAXXXX_PLUGINS environment variable

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title Phoenix

 Dropped support for Maya 2018

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title Phoenix

 Dropped CentOS 6 support for V-Ray Next

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title User Interface

 Hid the 'Backtrace (Classic)' Advection Method from the user interface

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 Initial Liquid Fill produced wetmap over submerged Solid geometry even when there were no liquid particles nearby

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 Wetmap didn't fully cover objects submerged in liquid created by a Volume Brush Source

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 Volume Inject Liquid Sources created more particles in voxels partially overlapped by the emitter or by Solid obstacles

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title flip solver

 The Variation Large option of the Foam was not working, since Phoenix 4.40

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 Foam Birth Amount differed from 3ds Max. Now it's in particles per cubic centimeter

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 The Viscosity Diffusion effect changed drastically between 1 and 0.999

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title flip solver

 Non-Solid liquid emitters in Surface Force mode with disabled Motion Velocity contributed negative velocity

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title fire/smoke solver

 Adaptive Grid crashed when a fire/smoke simulation expanded over 2.1 billion voxels

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title fire/smoke solver

 Rare crash when resimulating with Adaptive Grid with Preallocation

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title simulation

 Rare crash if the simulation interacted with another Simulator

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title sources

 Changing the grid resolution affected Volume Inject discharge of liquids (scenes saved with older Phoenix versions might simulate differently after this fix)

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title sources

 Volume Inject mode for liquids emitted much less pressure than 3ds Max when units were set to meters

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title sources

 Particles used as emitters kept adding velocity when Motion Velocity was Off but there were discharge modifiers in the Source

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title sources

 Volume Brush created liquid, foam and splash particles with a gap around submerged objects, compared to Initial Liquid Fill

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title sources

 Discharge modifiers in Object space were not correct when the emitter was another Simulator

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title nparticles

 The Motion Velocity in the Extra Phoenix Attributes of nParticles used in a Source was ignored

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title active bodies

 Liquid resimulation broke Active Bodies simulation

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title active bodies

 Moving Active Bodies in Maya killed many FLIP particles, unlike in 3ds Max

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title active bodies

 Active Bodies may freeze in scenes with large meter scale

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title active bodies

 Restoring a simulation with Active Bodies caused them to jump to the scene origin for a frame

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title active bodies

 Sometimes a feedback loop accelerated Active Bodies through the liquid

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title scene body interaction

 Explosive velocities were created when using a static liquid Simulator as a Volume Brush emitter

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title scene body interaction

 Some Out of memory situations when interacting with scene geometries or particles were not handled and lead to a crash

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title scene body interaction

 Geometries with scale of 0% created huge velocities in the simulation

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title vray proxy

 Crash on simulation start with some large VRayProxies

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title render elements

 Buckets in the Shadow, Raw Shadow, GI, Raw GI, Light Select and Lighting render elements of a Simulator with Volume Light Cache

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title render elements

 Crash when Denoiser was used with a Simulator with the Volumetric ZDepth option set to 'Standard Element'

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title volume shader

 Noise with Fire simulation and reflective material with Glossy below 1

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title particle shader

 Render artifacts using Probabilistic Shading when mixing two Particle Shaders in Bubbles/Splashes/Cellular mode

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title particle shader

 Crash when rendering Particle Shader using Ray-traced Scattering mode and Probabilistic Shading turned on

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title particle shader

 Probabilistic volumetrics rendered particles in Point mode incorrectly when combined with Smoke

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title particle shader

 Render slowdown on machines with many cores in Bubble/Cellular/Splashes mode between V-Ray Next and V-Ray 5

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title particle shader

 Count Multiplier slowed down significantly after Phoenix 4.10

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title particle shader

 Count Multiplier above 1 created particles even between distant chunks of particles

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title mesher

 Memory leak when rendering in Mesh mode

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title ocean mesher

 Artifacts in the mesh normals over liquid features which render in front of the horizon line, in Ocean or Cap Mesh mode with Horizon Roughness

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title ocean mesher

 Line artifacts or loss of detail with Cap Mesh mode and Ocean Мesh mode and low angled camera

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title ocean mesher

 Stepping artifacts in Ocean Mesh mode smoothed with Use Liquid Particles when the liquid level was much different than the ocean level

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title v-ray ipr

 All types of Phoenix previews were drawn on top of and occluded V-Ray's Viewport IPR

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title v-ray ipr

 Enabling "Initial Liquid Fill" in the Extra Phoenix Attributes in caused a V-Ray IPR refresh feedback loop

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title v-ray ipr

 Crash when stopping V-Ray IPR rendering of a scene with Ocean Quick Setup preset

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title property lister

 Crash when typing in the Clear Channels field of the Property Lister

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title animation

 Re-timed particles using Time Bend Controls lost their ID channel

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title animation

 Re-timing particles without IDs caused them to disappear in blended frames

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title animation

 Grid previews disappeared when switching to "Velocity" Grid Blend mode after changing the Input Play Speed to <1 while the Grid Blend mode was a different one

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title animation

 Grid simulation with high velocity using Adaptive Grid and Precise Tracing Grid Blend mode appeared chopped apart

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title body force

 Moving geometries used in a Body Force created wrong velocities with the Internal Damp or Damp Min Vel options since Phoenix 4.30

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title preview

 Particle Preview size did not work for some particle systems in Maya 2022

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title preview

 All Phoenix previews were not updated properly on scrolling the timeline when 'Smooth shade all' and 'Use default material' were both ON in Maya 2022

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title preview

 Viewport got stuck when using a Particle Texture as a Surface Channel for meshing

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title preview

 The 'Only if Selected' preview option did not work for the Velocity Streamlines

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title preview

 The preview did not clear if using Play Length and scrolling the timeline to an empty frame

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title standalone preview

 Cache File Content time did not show leading zeroes before hours and minutes

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title standalone preview

 The vertical scroll in the Log and the Cache File Content windows did not work if the text had too many lines

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title standalone preview

 Rare crash when opening the Particle Preview rollout of the Phoenix Previewer

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title standalone preview

 Saving an image sequence in the Standalone previewer in CLI mode was saving only the first frame

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title standalone preview

 Zooming in very close on large cache files locked the camera

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title gpu preview

 The GPU preview was stretched and skewed with a rotated Simulator in Maya 2022

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title cache i/o

 Opening a Maya scene with a Simulator created after Phoenix 4.40 and simulating always created a particle TexUVW channel

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title cache i/o

 Particles created by the simulation sometimes had invalid or repeating IDs

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Тhe grid velocity from the vector "vel" channel of imported VDB caches was not the correct scale

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Grid RGB channel broke when the grid size was above 1 billion voxels

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 AUR caches containing Particle Velocity increased in size, since Phoenix 4.40

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title cache i/o

 Smoothed Velocity channel of VDB caches incorrectly had very large or very small scale

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title presets

 The Blood Splatter and Coffee Quick Setup presets used different VRayMtl and Particle Shader settings than the 3ds Max ones

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title presets

 The Honey and Beer Quick Setup presets differed from the 3ds Max ones

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title presets

 The Waterfall toolbar Quick Setup preset changed since Phoenix 4.30

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title user interface

 Container Dimensions in the Simulation rollout were not correct

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title Scripting

 The 'phxfd' module could not be imported and Phoenix Python functions could not be called in Maya 2022

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title Logging

 Simulations which started under 10 million voxels but later expanded, stopped writing to the Phoenix log file, since Phoenix 4.40

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title Installation

 The Phoenix Previewer and Cache Converter did not install with execute permissions on Linux