Phoenix FD for Maya beta 4

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Hello,

Beta 4 is on the site. Here are the changes:

Phoenix FD 2.0 beta 4 (April 26, 2012)
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[bug] Issue with non-latin letters in the file names on Windows
[bug] Different frames rendered with DR while simulating
[bug] "Merge instances" option for the GPU preview use random file names
[bug] PhoenixFD don't detect transformation from joints
[modified feature] Per vertex velocity for the interacting objects
[modified feature] Adaptive sampling for the emissive lights
[modified feature] Grid resizing without temporary buffer
[new feature] Ability to run the dynamics up to the starting frame
[feature request] Input section to show the start/end cache range

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For huge simulations, Phoenix FD now have an option to preallocate the memory instead of creating a temporary buffers when resizing. The other big feature is DMC sampling of the emissive lights

Normal sampling:


DMC:

[RobPhoboS]

Fantastic work

[hellobard]

awesome, that looks like a major improvement. from over 1 minute to 23 s is fantastic.
Time to set aside some more nights to test Phoenix!

[RobPhoboS]

Time to set aside some more nights to test Phoenix!

Definitely.
I've gotta shoot a scene, track it and add elements of phoenix as I personally feel it's better to test with specific results in mind (ie - rolling smoke/fire from window etc etc).

[flat]

Thank you.
Phoenix FD working Japanese path within RT.