Phoenix FD 3.0 for 3ds max is Out!

[Paul Oblomov]

I wish a lil tutorial on reading brand new phx .log file

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

I'm sure Ivaylo can help with this.

[Ivaylo Katev]

i just opened one to see what you mean, but it looks the same as before for me

[Paul Oblomov]

Nop It looks that there's a lot of new stuff logged.

interfaces: Sp:0 pg:38f71a50 pobjx:38f71ab0

onNewCycle() end 0.008862End transferCtrlToMainThread: 2
SceneInteraction Update Voxels
SceneInteraction End

sim cycle 366 t:4.880000, LastFrameDuration 1534.848611 simulation stage (00)
Preallocation limit reached! 1674158400 requested, 1617533337 available
simulation stage (01)
SceneInteraction Begin
Enter transferCtrlToMainThread: 2
transferCtrlToMainThread simEventType set: 2
etNewCycle
onnc 0 0.000000
onnc 1 0.006042
onnc 2 0.005700
onnc 3 0.003281
setSolverParamsResimAdaptGrid
setSolverParamsCommon
setSolverParamsFireSmoke
onnc 4 0.014377
begin proc nodes 0.003585

[Ivaylo Katev]

well, the log file is for us, it's not human readable

[ghiom3d]

I playing with chocolate, honey, cold fume, beer , follow path force.... that's just the best ever tool i ever use on 3DSMAX !
It's very easier than anytime, any other simulator .. it's powerfull .
But more than this it's now very funny and let artist to work like an artist now !

maany many thanks ! phoenix 3.0 and Vray 3.4 that's a mega combo

[ghiom3d]

is was possible in futur to use GPU to compute faster the sim ?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Really glad you like it - still much more work to do, including GPU, yes

[cb LLC]

I am so buying it. I hope Otoy will get on this to make it work with Octane 3

[psychoo]

No update on ocean? at least I didn't see it in the teaser video. Could you please tell if there was any advance on the ocean/foam/splash frontier?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

A ton of bugfixes there, but still a lot of work left - Stereo, Physical camera, etc. still needs to be implemented for the ocean. There are many other tiny changes and improvements to the foam and splashes, but nothing more than all the other aspects of the simulation. Check the changelog https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/PHX3MAX/3.00.01

Cheers!

[psychoo]

Ok, thanks! I wish we could see reflections for ocean behind the camera.

[Syclone1]

With the new "Simulation Licenses" does this mean that we can use multiple machines to calculate a simulation?

[georgi.zhekov]

Distributed simulation in which different parts of the same simulation are calculated across several machines is currently not implemented. However, you can use Phoenix 3.0's Simulation licenses to run many simulation on separate machines without using the Graphical User Interface. This way you can also simultaneously run copies of the same scene with slightly different simulation settings on several machines and then compare and pick the best looking one.

[Syclone1]

Distributed simulation in which different parts of the same simulation are calculated across several machines is currently not implemented. However, you can use Phoenix 3.0's Simulation licenses to run many simulation on separate machines without using the Graphical User Interface. This way you can also simultaneously run copies of the same scene with slightly different simulation settings on several machines and then compare and pick the best looking one.

Ah ok thanks for the info. I was hoping that it was almost like Back Burner where each machine would take on different frames.

Thanks again,
-dave