Isosurface help

[Mennovandijk]

Hi I still have issues to get a smooth render using the isosurface option.

I remember using previous versions of Vray in combination with previous version of Phoenix, enabling Isosurface produced a smooth render of the liquid surface.

But no matter what settings I try, this is what I keep getting: (using the latest nightlies of Phoenix and Vray 3.402)



Also I tried various older versions of Vray and Phoenix combinations, but still get the same issue.

I have included a very basic scene setup (3DsMax 2015)

[Ivaylo Katev]

well, this looks like something is broken, but can you explain why just not use the mesh based rendering?

[Mennovandijk]

Well, a mesh based render looks smooth in animation but I need to render a still frame and with the mesh based render the edges still look flat.

Also I want to do some slow motion moving liquid ...

[Ivaylo Katev]

what you mean with "edges look flat"?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Alright, so the workaround for the issue would be to select the simulator and drop this line into the maxscript listener:

$.sampler=2

This will render using the Spherical sampler instead of the Linear - you can still find those in the Fire/Smoke simulator's options, but they are now hidden from the Liquid simulator. I will change the default to Spherical for the liquids.

Thanks for finding this!

Cheers!

[Mennovandijk]

Hi Svetlin,

I'll give that a try.

thanks for the support and the great work!


Menno