Emitter sitching from volume to surface

[jstrob]

Hi,

I have an emitter set to volume brush but sometimes it changes itself to surface force. I don't know what triggers is as I can't notice when exactly it is switched. I am just trying to fine tune a sim playing with many parameter and then one day I noticed this emitter was switched to surface force instead of volume brush. (it happened 3 times and the 2 first ones I thought I just accidentaly switched it).

Do you know of anything that could trigger this?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmm, only thing I can think of is that when you set an emitter into Solid mode, it will display a message and ask you to switch to surface force, because solids cannot use the volume modes. Could this be it?

[tashko.zashev]

Svetlin was faster
That's odd and shouldn't happen wile working on other Phoenix parameters. We always print a warning when something has changed internally in the background. I believe it would be difficult for you to provide any steps to reproduce so we can check your scene file here.

[jstrob]

Svetlin was faster
That's odd and shouldn't happen wile working on other Phoenix parameters. We always print a warning when something has changed internally in the background. I believe it would be difficult for you to provide any steps to reproduce so we can check your scene file here.

Ok thanks guys!

I know about the message but it's not that.

It happened 3 times last week but it didn't happen yet this week. I think it was when reopening a file, maybe a 3dsmax bug or a bug in my brain for not sleeping enough . but anyway difficult to narrow down cause i don't know what triggers it. I will tell you if it happens again.

[jstrob]

I found out what triggers the switch. It's a new render pass plugin that I have called Vexus. It is amazing by the way. But when I execute my phoenixfd pass with it it changes the emiter from volume brush to surface force. I will have to investigate with John Martini about that.

The weird thing is that the emitter is not even supposed to be affected by that pass other than being hidden.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ahh, I was just going to ask wan't this John's plug. If there's anything I can help with, please bump me