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title V-Ray IPR

 V-Ray CPU IPR support for Simulators

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colour Green title New

 

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title volume shader

 Deform Fire/Smoke Simulators in Volumetric mode , Volumetric Geometry and Isosurface modes when Bend, Skew, Taper, Twist, Melt, or Stretch modifiers are applied to them. No support for streamline and GPU viewport preview yet. No support for vrscene rendering and Cloud rendering yet.

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle shader

 Deform particles of the connected Liquid Simulator when Bend, Skew, Taper, Twist, Melt, or Stretch modifiers are applied to it.

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle shader

 Absorption Color control for the Fog mode of the Particle Shader with V-Ray CPU

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colour Green title New

 

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title particle shader

 Phase Function control for the Fog mode when using Ray-Traced Scattering with V-Ray CPU

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colour Green title New

 

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title standalone simulator

 Support for Time-Bend Resimulation for retiming simulations

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colour Green title New

 

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title standalone simulator

 Support for animated transforms of geometries and the Simulator

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colour Green title New

 

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title standalone simulator

 Support for animated options of the Simulator and Sources

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colour Green title New

 

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title preview

 Force streamline preview showing how forces would affect the simulation; can work without loaded caches

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colour Green title New

 

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title preview

 Button for converting the currently shown streamline preview (either velocity streamlines or force streamlines) into native 3ds Max splines

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colour Green title New

 

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title submitting simulations

 Option for submitting Phoenix Standalone simulations through Deadline

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colour Green title New

 

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title User Interface

 Implemented the Resimulation, Grid, Dynamics, Fuel, Foam, Splash, Output and Export rollouts in QT so the Simulator shows faster when selected. Now these rollouts can also float, be pinned or docked anywhere in 3ds Max

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title standalone simulator

 Support for the Custom Start and Stop frame for resimulation

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title standalone simulator

 Pass the Preferences verbosity to the Standalone Simulator when launching it from 3ds Max

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title simulation general

 Simulators in 3ds Max are now Solid by default, like in Maya

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title Active Bodies

 Added aerodynamic drag which prevents very light Active Bodies from flying off into outer space

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 Turn Wetting of the Simulator Jammed walls On and Off using its Wetting node property

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title FLIP Liquid Solver

 New 'Splash Split' option to control the rate at which a splash particle splits into smaller ones as it flies, creating a trail

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Sources

 Right click 'Reset to Default' option for the Discharge Modifier curves

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title Sources

 Sped up, multithreaded and reduced memory usage when emitting from hundreds of thousands particles. Particle Flow and thinkingParticles can't be used from many threads though, so they remain single threaded

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title volume shader

 Sped up rendering of grid volumes with up to 25% when Fully Visible Fire or Volume Light Cache was used

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title volume shader

 Sped up rendering of grid volumes with up to 10% when the RGB channel was used

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title volume shader

 New 'Volume Motion Blur' option allowing to choose between Ray-traced and Grid-based methods - the Grid-based method creates more visible streaks for fast moving fluids

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title volume shader

 Allowed manual creation of the Phoenix atmosphere, but no more than one instance

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title volume shader

 Render the fire of volumes in the V-Ray 5 and V-Ray 6 beautyLPE

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title ocean mesher

 Made the borders of the Cap Mesh look exactly like the borders of the container in Ocean Mesh mode

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title ocean mesher

 The width of the smooth transition zone between the simulated waves inside the simulator and the displaced waves outside can now be controlled via the new 'Ocean Border Fade %' option

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colour Yellow title ImproveD

 

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title mesher

 New option to control the smoothing of mesh normals: Always, Never, When Displacement is Off

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title preview

 Slice Preview Width option

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title preview

 Option to change the particle preview sizes

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title thinking particles

 Replaced the old Phoenix diagrams with the modern ones

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title presets

 Used the Phase Function option for the Clouds quick setup toolbar preset

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title presets

 Start the animations of the Quick Setup toolbar presets from the current timeline start frame

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title cache i/o

 'Default Cache Directory' option in the Phoenix Preferences dialog

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title cache i/o

 Recognize by default the "velocity(x)", "velocity(y)" and "velocity(z)" grid channels and the "particles_velocity" from VDBs from Blender

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title cache converter

 Dragging and dropping caches over cache_converter.exe would convert AUR to VDB and VDB to AUR without the need to use the command line

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title user interface

 Button to Pin the Volumetric Options window so it does not close when the Simulator/VoxelShader is deselected

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title user interface

 'Add Many' button in the Scene Interaction rollout and the Source, allowing to quickly add a list of nodes

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title user interface

 Implemented the user interface of the Ocean and Foam Textures in QT so they shows faster when selected

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title user interface

 Zero all Grid Channel Smoothing option defaults in order to get the strongest smoothing

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title user interface

 Renamed the Particle Shader 'Flatten At Ocean Borders' to 'Use Ocean Border Fade' to make it clear it is connected to that particular Simulator option

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title user interface

 Show a message at render start if Phoenix is incompatible with the currently installed V-Ray

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title scripting

 New A_ExportSimscene <path> MAXScript function for exporting a simscene from the current scene

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title Logging

 Printing to the Phoenix log not only the current simulation frame, but also the total number of frames and the percentage completed

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title Standalone Simulator

 The simscene export, simulation and preview did not support directories with non-ASCII characters

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title Simulation General

 Crash when simulating with a Simulator and Source having the same name

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title Fire/Smoke Solver

 Artifacts when using PCG conservation and a Plain Force in some scenes, since Phoenix 5.00

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Active Bodies with Original Animation Influence of 1 didn't follow the original geometry precisely

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Emission reaction force was not zeroed if the Source had its emission animated to 0

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colour Red title fixed

 

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title active bodies

 Axis Lock with locked translation still allowed the body to rotate around the world origin

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title active bodies

 Thruster attached to an Active Body pushed in the wrong direction when the body rotated

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title active bodies

 When starting an Active body simulation where the scene start frame was different than 0, keyframes were still created at frame 0

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title flip liquid solver

 The sizes of the foam bubbles did not affect their Foam Volume interactions, since Phoenix 5.00

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title flip liquid solver

 Liquid simulation in Fillup For Ocean mode with Adaptive Grid and Extra Margin kept expanding every frame even if not needed

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title flip liquid solver

 Viscosity was applied asymmetrically on thin flowing liquid

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title flip liquid solver

 Load & Start of a moving container with Fillup for Ocean created extra particles and wrong velocities

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title adaptive grid

 Moving Fire/Smoke Simulator with Adaptive Grid using the Speed channel expanded constantly

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title tuners

 Crash when Gravity Force was excluded from the simulation, but was used in a Tuner

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title volume shader

 Applying a Modifier to a Simulator in Volumetric mode prevented it from rendering with V-Ray 6 and showed artifacts with V-Ray 5

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title volume shader

 Crash when rendering with Scanline after the scene has been rendered with V-Ray, since Phoenix 5.01

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title Volumetric Illumination

 Crash during V-Ray Light cache generation when Fire Lights were illuminating and OSL material, only when rendering via vrscene

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title render elements

 Particle Shader in 'Render as Geometry' mode did not render in the V-Ray Velocity Render element, since Phoenix 5.01

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title render elements

 Hang when rendering with motion blur a Liquid Simulator with Displacement and a Voxel Shader using the Simulator as a Render Cutter, using a V-Ray Crypotomatte render element

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title render elements

 The V-Ray Render Elements might render black with freshly started 3ds Max and Volume Light Cache enabled

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title particle shader

 Crash during V-Ray Light cache generation when a Particle Shader in Bubbles mode with Render as Geometry Off intersected a V-Ray Proxy

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title particle shader

 Fog rendered differently from other modes when using a Color Map in Object XYZ mode in a Particle Shader with connected Liquid Simulator

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title vrscenes

 Animation of the Phase Function, Fire Multiplier, Fire Opacity Multiplier, Physically Based, Volume Light Cache Speedup and Surface Level options was ignored during vrscene rendering

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title ocean mesher

 Horizon artifacts when rendering Ocean Meshes with VRayDome Camera

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title mesher

 The Mesh of a Fire/Smoke Simulator had Vertical Fade level erroneously applied to it and it couldn't be turned off

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title preview

 The Streamline Velocity preview did not exclude the inertial velocity of a moving container like the old Velocity preview does

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title preview

 The Color Scaling of the particle preview did not exclude the inertial velocity of a moving container, so it was always white

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title preview

 Voxel Velocity and Streamline Velocity previews showed much less data than they should have with Auto Range and a moving simulator

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title path follow

 Path Follow stopped working if at least one of its Sub Segments was completely outside of the grid

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title grid texture

 If Render-time Only was ON, changing the channel did not have an effect for the Rescale dialog

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title cache i/o

 Fixed AUR lossless compression crashing when writing very large cache files, containing a grid channel larger than 8GB

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title prt reader

 Fixed the URL of the help button

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title standalone preview

 Saving images from the Standalone Preview in GUI mode increased the Detail Reduction if Auto Reduction was On