Attract liquid and smoke - working in Maya?

[mikeRhone]

Hey guys, Im trying to get smoke to attract to an object but am not having any luck. I've got a source object, a target object with FD attributes added - To test it I've got Attract liquid and smoke cranked up (to 100). On the Phoenix container I've got the near strength and far strength to 10000. Im not seeing any change in motion at all. Any thoughts?

[Ivaylo Katev]

the options you mentioned , near and far forces are part of the legacy attraction force developed for the grid core , that is currently switched off. now we have per body attraction force, that allows very simple morphing setup, you have just to animate the individual body force instead the much harder task to animate the mesh. unfortunately, in maya you have no UI access to it, you can try to get older nightly and to use the old attraction force.

[mikeRhone]

Thanks for the reply Ivaylo - Are there plans to have it ported to Maya in the future? And failing that are there any non-UI ways to access the feature? Some hidden attribute I can setAttr on perhaps?

[Ivaylo Katev]

of course all the features will be ported in maya, phoenix core is common for both max and maya and we just have to update the UI and some underlying front end modules

[mikeRhone]

That's good to know, thanks Ivaylo - Is getting this into Maya slated for the near future or can you let me know what previous nightly might still have it active?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hello, sorry for the late answer - it will be in the maya nightlies hopefully in a couple of weeks - I'll drop a message here when it's done.