Phoenix FD Maya

[Avesani]

Hi I'm trying to use Phoenix FD in Maya, but it is giving this error,

// Error: V-Ray: ERROR: Could not create plugin PhoenixFDSim! //

and

// Warning: V-Ray : Unable to create Phoenix FD Particle Shader plugin

Do you know what it can be?

my setup:
Maya 2019 WIN
Vray 5
PhoenixFD 4

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

Sounds like a bad Install.

Are you 200% sure that you have installed Phoenix for V-Ray 5? There are separate installers for V-Ray Next and V-Ray 5.

Cheers!

[Avesani]

Hello Svetlin, I downloaded this version in nightlies: phoenixFD_adv_43001_maya2019_vray5_x64.exe

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey, sounds correct. Can you tell me the exact nightly number? It's a 5-digit number at the end of the archive - for example today's nightlies are 30441.

Also, can you tell me the exact V-Ray 5 version you installed, so I can try to break it here?

Cheers!

[Avesani]

Follow:

phoenixFD_adv_43001_maya2019_vray5_x64_30441_insta ll.zip

and

vray_adv_50022_maya2019_x64_30439_install.zip


Cheers!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Yes, got it here as well! Will see what's going on and will ping you.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Alrighty, so it was a break in the V-Ray 5 SDK. The V-Ray guys will take care of it, and since you might not have access to the latest V-Ray nightly, you can workaround it by getting an older Phoenix nightly - these ones should work okay: https://nightlies.chaosgroup.com/mai...ghtly/20201110

Thanks for the report!

[Avesani]

Hi Svetlin, now everything worked fine! Thanks a lot for the help!!

Cheers!

[Avesani]

Hi Svetlin, I am starting at PHOENIX, I am very noob hehehe I am trying to create a NEBULA, I went to use the lightmix and it was very strange, you know what it can be? and taking advantage of the conversation you recommend some tutorial or study on how to make a NEBULA the link I found on the forum is broken

CHeers!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmmm, there is an option in V-Ray called 'Consistent lighting elements' (https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...lobal+Switches) - can you see if turning it off helps?

[Avesani]

Why is this "TILE" marked the size of the bucket in lightMIX?

[georgi.zhekov]

Hey,

Thanks for the report I have reproduced it in here as well.

If you disable the Volume Light cache checkbox in the Smoke color rollout it should render correctly.

[Avesani]

Thank you very much for the support!! it worked.