Isosurface and mesh

[jstrob]

I think PhoenixFD needs a way to tweak the isosurface with modifiers or a way to be meshed rapidly with Thinkbox Frost. Thanks for your hard work at Chaosgroup!

[vlado]

You can already tweak the mesh with any regular 3ds Max modifiers you want, I believe. For Frost support, you should contact ThinkBox directly.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jstrob]

For thing like the chocolate sample included with phoenix, the isosurface gets grid artifact that we would need to remove with a relax but we can't. And the mesh gives a lot of jaggy shapes in the highlights that no modifier can remove... For thinkbox support I will contact them.

you can look here to see what I mean:
http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...336#post609336

[Ivaylo Katev]

the isosurface can't be modified by the max modifiers, because unlike the mesh it does not exist as vertex-face object, it appears during the rendering by millions of intersection points returned to the render engine.

[jstrob]

Ok.

As I said in the other thread frost can mesh phoenix particles (when we check them in the phoenix source prior simulation). So to my surprise it is already supported. I am testing it right now.

[Ivaylo Katev]

good to know, we can suggest this as workflow