Burning down the house

[lander]

On my free time I'm doing this viz of the fire at the royal castle of stockholm in 1697.

Still a long way to go on the model and simulation but it's a process and I explore PhoenixFD as I go.

[lander]

just testing.

[lander]

testing

lot's of pyramids rising these days
So I made a quick test to see how much work I'd have to spend on making a version using PhoenixFD.

My home PC i soo slooooow.
I messed around with some settings during rendering so there are some inconsistencies in quality. My home PC is a I7 2.7 Ghz with 12Gb ram so it's not really made for this kind of play

It's really short so don't wink!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0fi4dbnff3...ramid.mp4?dl=0

[Ivaylo Katev]

looks promising but too short. on i7 2.7 GHz you can create such videos with no problem. make the dof in post, not rendertime, use subdivision 1 of the sun, don't use gi.

[lander]

The settings are from the ship scene that ships With Phoenix FD.
I have 8 seconds/frame in the beginning. When the shit hit's the fan at the end I get 60 mminutes /frame.
I actually exluded the sun from the reflextions and I inserted a Vray light that only reflect. There is no GI
Dof is in post and the time scale effect. and there is no motion blur. Probably a rendersetting. I'll delete my setup and lower the subdivs on the sun and see what happens.
By buckets get stuck on the particles/atmosphere. I lowerd the bucketsize and gained some minutes.

[Ivaylo Katev]

how many foam particles you have?

[lander]

Haha! Alot, Foam 43 102 796 at frame 140
Spashes 10 846 087
The sim grinds to a halt

I'm not at my station all the time so I answer as soon as I can.

[Ivaylo Katev]

this explains the huge render times