Phoenix 5.20 for 3ds Max and Maya

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey folks, Phoenix 5.20 is officially out now!

You can grab the new installers here:
3ds Max: https://download.chaos.com/?platform=49&product=46
Maya: https://download.chaos.com/?platform=48&product=46

Some of the highlights are here:

• This release includes official support for 3ds Max 2024 and Maya 2024.
• [3ds Max only] Floating GUI - we added it for 3ds Max! Now we have a new Phoenix Main Window where you can dock the floating rollouts of the Simulator. The layout of this window gets saved to the .MAX files so you can continue working with the workspace where you left off.
• We added a new option in the Sources allowing to create velocities in a specified direction or even create varying velocities based on a texture map.
• Simulations now are about 10-20% faster than in Phoenix 5.10 overall. We also added a new 'Use GPU to Aid Simulation' option that would run the fire/smoke PCG Fluidity method on the GPU instead of the CPU, so it could speed up simulations with up to 20%. Now the Simulator also has a new Simulation Speed rollout that shows how much each simulation phase takes and shows you tips on how to speed up your simulations even more.
• We added a new Axis Lock option for locking the rotation of Active Bodies, allowed the Standalone Simulator to exclude geometries, our Deadline submission of simulations now has more options and is friendlier, and also there are many improvements to liquid simulations, including the ability to have the adaptive grid expand vertically in ocean simulations.
• [Maya only] We did many fixes to V-Ray IPR rendering of Simulators and Particle Shaders.
• And, finally, as always, we fixed many bugs so Phoenix would be the most stable fluid software you've ever used!

Here are the full changelogs:
https://docs.chaos.com/display/PHX4MAX/5.20.00
https://docs.chaos.com/display/PHX4MAYA/5.20.00

And here is a quick tutorial showing some of the new stuff:

Love, Team Phoenix ❣️