# Phoenix FD for Maya beta 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [April 6, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/phoenix-fd-for-maya-beta-3/40983 "2012-04-06T11:42:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivaylo.ivanov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@ivaylo.ivanov](https://forums.chaos.com/u/ivaylo.ivanov)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/phoenix-fd-for-maya-beta-3/40983/1 "2012-04-06T11:42:59Z")
Hello everybody, The new beta is on the site. Here is the changelog: Phoenix FD 2.0 beta 3 (April 6, 2012) ============================ Crash with PhoenixFD force without a simulator during the simulation      Simulators with preview turned off not rendered properly during the simulation      Double emission contribution with additional lights and GI      Transforms for PhoenixFD nodes must be named accordingly      Error saving scenes in binary format with Phoenix nodes in Maya 2011 and prior      Visible seams with wrapped containers      Intermediate objects interact with the simulation      Crash with foam simulation in some rare cases      Instance rendering is not working immediately after duplicating      Solid mode rendering to work with the RT engine      Fire/Smoke rendering to work with the RT engine      Custom gravity vector      PhoenixFD menu in Dynamics      Ability to “reset” the simulation (stop/clear cache/revert)      Auto mapping option for PhoenixFD 3D texture Phoenix FD 2.0 beta 2 (March 14, 2012) ============================ Crash when saving a preview in solid geometry mode      Crash with additional lights and transparency/emission that use a texture      Emission texture modulation checkbox is not working      Emission component do not render with the stand-alone and DR      Crash with Turbulence preview when tweaked while simulation is running      Crash in animation mode      Phoenix utility nodes can be selected only when clicked on the wireframe      Wrong shading color of the Phoenix source in the viewport under VMWare Player      Crash when closing Maya after rendering a scene with foam      Support more then one light in the GPU preview      Boundary conditions must show X/Y/Z related to the Maya viewport, not the simulator core      DAG processing optimization when the interaction set is inclusive      Phoenix textures - detect circular references      Native Python scripting      Stopping the simulation must revert the frame to the last simulated result      Support for vray lights with the gpu shading      Support for flipping Y and Z axis when reading a cache file      PhoenixFD installation must not change the PYTHONPATH environment variable      PhoenixFD must delete its shelf when the plugin is unloaded Here are some known issues: - RT is only partially supported in the official versions of V-Ray for Maya. To get the full featured RT support, you need a recent nightly build, but it’s not obligatory. Soon, there will be a stable version of V-Ray for Maya that fully supports Phoenix FD. The known limitations of the current official V-Ray for Maya are: - can’t update when the simulator parameters or time is changed (camera changing is working though) - works only in geometry mode (this is in Rendering/V-Ray section in AE). Geometry mode for fire/smoke is not recomended for the production render though, unless heat haze must be used. - While simulating, DR is working currently at random. If you are experiencing such problems, try pausing the simulation. - Some antivirus programs (like Microsoft Security Essentials) that have real time protection may cause the simulation to run a couple of times slower. They seem to check the files generated by Phoenix FD. - For simulation it’s better to have a processor with a higher clock speed, then with more cores. ---
**Author:** ![Ymauchi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/ymauchi/32/271368_2.png) [@Ymauchi](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Ymauchi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/phoenix-fd-for-maya-beta-3/40983/2 "2012-04-09T06:56:14Z")
When the multi-byte character is being used for the scene name of Maya, or output path of Phoenix FD, simulation data is not loaded at the time of RT session. -----vray.exe message---------- warning: Error loading simulation data for time 24 --------------------------------- tests in nightly 22501 + Phoenix FD 2.0 beta 3 (April 6)