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Hello all,
I'm having an issue with Phoenix FD (v41000) inside 3DS Max 2020. I've been doing simulations for a project with the intention of resimulating the frames to get a higher resolution grid for rendering. Every single time I have started the resimulation everything will go fine until one point where every newly created frame becomes unreadable, without Max/Phoenix showing any errors, it even keeps simulating normally and frames keep being created (size is about 14GB per frame when this happens), I can also see the CPU working hard non-stop.
All the proper output channels are selected, my drives have space (using PCIe SSDs), and also my PC has enough free memory every time this happens (128GB total, when Resimulation is going memory never goes higher than 80-90GB used... not all used by Max). The "Max Memory" settings on Phoenix are set to 95%.
The only thing I see unusual is in the "PhoenixFDFire" settings; the little box where it says "Cache File Content" becomes empty at the same time the frames become unreadable. At this point, if I uncheck the "Grid Resimulation" I can see the original frames can load fine together with their "Cache File Content" info, this makes me think that the source is fine... I have repeated this same process 4-5 times already on difference disks and get the same problem at some point, never past the 200 frames (need 500+ in my final render). Also have tried this using Thinkbox Deadline on another PC and also get the same problem. My scene is very simple and the only keyframes I have are set on the emitter to control the amount of smoke that is emitted.
Any help is immensely appreciated.
I'm having an issue with Phoenix FD (v41000) inside 3DS Max 2020. I've been doing simulations for a project with the intention of resimulating the frames to get a higher resolution grid for rendering. Every single time I have started the resimulation everything will go fine until one point where every newly created frame becomes unreadable, without Max/Phoenix showing any errors, it even keeps simulating normally and frames keep being created (size is about 14GB per frame when this happens), I can also see the CPU working hard non-stop.
All the proper output channels are selected, my drives have space (using PCIe SSDs), and also my PC has enough free memory every time this happens (128GB total, when Resimulation is going memory never goes higher than 80-90GB used... not all used by Max). The "Max Memory" settings on Phoenix are set to 95%.
The only thing I see unusual is in the "PhoenixFDFire" settings; the little box where it says "Cache File Content" becomes empty at the same time the frames become unreadable. At this point, if I uncheck the "Grid Resimulation" I can see the original frames can load fine together with their "Cache File Content" info, this makes me think that the source is fine... I have repeated this same process 4-5 times already on difference disks and get the same problem at some point, never past the 200 frames (need 500+ in my final render). Also have tried this using Thinkbox Deadline on another PC and also get the same problem. My scene is very simple and the only keyframes I have are set on the emitter to control the amount of smoke that is emitted.
Any help is immensely appreciated.
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