Fluid ? When ?

[bigbossfr]

Hi all,
A question : fluids effect is very important in VFX. Vray Maya will support fluids ? When ?
Is developing ?

Thank.

[bigbossfr]

Somebody know ?

[vlado]

We are working on this and it will go into one of the next updates; probably not in SP1, but hopefully in the one after that.

Best regards,
Vlado

[RichardBlank]

It would be nice.
Are you working on it now?

[vlado]

We did not have time to include it in SP1, but support for Maya fluids is already available in the nightly builds.

Best regards,
Vlado

[RichardBlank]

Oh great! I Will try it out.

[bradon]

anyone know what the status is on the fluid support for light shadows is in nightly builds? I just try on my own to test render a 3D fluid cloud using a directional light . looks like some features are there but If I try to enable shadows for the fluid it doesn't seem supported, but maybe im not doing it right?

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/g...webb/Cloud.jpg

[vlado]

Works fine for me; are you using GI as well?

Best regards,
Vlado

[bigbossfr]

Same problem with directional lights.
Build 22 december.

[vlado]

Ok then, can any of you send me a scene for this to vlado@chaosgroup.com? As I said, it works fine in my (simple) tests, but there may be something else going on...

Best regards,
Vlado

[bigbossfr]

Here a scene (Maya 2011 Linux64).

I have a lot of crash when i have a fluid.

So 2 problemes with fluids :
- crash a lot (on linux)
- no shadow

Play the animation to frame 24.

Thanks

[vlado]

Aside from the crashes, which I can't reproduce yet, things seem to work fine. In this case the direct illumination is almost completely hidden by the incandescence of the volume, but it is there.

In comparison to the Maya software renderer, the direct illumination on the volume when rendered with V-Ray is twice as low. This is not a bug (although it may be useful to add an option to simulate the Maya result). You can use GI to get a more realistic result.

Best regards,
Vlado

[bigbossfr]

Oh nice. Thank you Vlado.
I will try again.
Yes, it will be nice to add an option to simulate the Maya result.

[ollinvfx]

Does it support motion blur of the fluid's movement? For example, the turbulence of a flame.

[vlado]

I don't think we do this at the moment, although it's not particularly difficult to add it.

Best regards,
Vlado