pheonix fd - 3ds max

[BBHead]

Guys,

Have a few things here I need a little guidance on.

1. I have a smoke sim that I want to create a preview animation in 3ds max. But its not capturing anything from the sim

2. I tried to save out a preview from within GPU preview rollout in PheonixFDFire sim but that tells me to enable GPU preview even though it is enabled??

3. This is all for a an assignment where we have to go back to an old project and add steam coming from a kettle. Is it possible to render out just the steam as a pass and then composite that with single scene still to make a 5 second animation?

Cheers

Michael

[Ivaylo Katev]

1. not quite sure, but as i remember this is a nitrous related problem, try to switch to d3d
2. sounds like a bug, we will try to reproduce it
3. yes, add the atmosphere render element

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

The in-viewport GPU preview cannot save images yet - we will add this function in the near future. You need to enable the classic GPU preview that works in a viewport of its own - from the viewport menu choose Extended Viewports -> PhoenixFD GPU Preview.

[BBHead]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the reply's.

On response to Question 3 saying that I can use atmosphere render element. I suppose that still means that I must render a beauty pass? I am wondering if there is a way I just render smoke volume. And then just use one still image of scene and animate the steam on top. Trying the same time with render as I need about 300 frames on steam sim. I hope I'm making sense.

Michael

[flipbook]

Can't you just use a normal matte object setup? Or just set a fast render material to all other objects and still use the atmosphere element.

[BBHead]

Hi,

I was thinking that but was wondering if there is a way of rendering only what I want. Just want to see how much time can be saved.

I guess I'll give that I go then.

Thanks.

Michael

[BBHead]

Hi,

The PhoenixFD GPU Preview window is completely black? I tried changing background color to check if that was obscuring smoke but no effect.

Any ideas?

Michael

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

You need to have your simulator selected, and you need lights in the scene in order to see the smoke.

[BBHead]

Hi,

I had lighting already in scene and active as well as sim selected. I see it fine in normal viewport but not in special phoenix viewport. The smoke color also refuses to change even though I have changed it in fire and smoke settings.

I really hope one day I can be the one with answers but for now I say thank you for the help

Michael

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Would it be possible to send to support@chaosgroup.com the scene and one cache file that does not show, so we can investigate this?

[BBHead]

Done!

Michael