Phoenix 3 nightly Max 2021 Crash

[anthonyh]

Hi,
I`m finding a guaranteed crash(for me at least!) in Phoenix 3 nightlies. I`m trying to do a Body Force fill up smoke with a Skinned mesh. The simulation will work but if I turn the Body Force attractor mesh to `display as box` in max object properties it hard crashes Max to desktop. I assume that`s not supposed to be a limitation or anything ? Using 3dsmax 2021 and nightly from 3rd(today) but did it as well in the last nightly too.
Of course it could easily be something in my scene, just not sure what ?
The obvious workaround is not to do that I guess.
thanks

[georgi.zhekov]

Hey,

Definitely it should not crash. Can you send over the scene so we can check it?
Do we need to do anything besides turning display as box? Is this happening during simulation?

Thanks!

[anthonyh]

Hi Georgi,
It happens both if you switch to box mode before and during simulating.
I just did a quick test and took a static snapshot of the mesh and tried simulating again with that and it didn`t crash in box mode so I presume it has to be something to do with the Skinned mesh ? I`ll send it over..
thanks

[georgi.zhekov]

Thanks for the scene - we got it! We'll update the thread once we know more.

Cheers!