Hi there! Sorry if it has been asked before, but is there a way to render a Z Depth Pass of PhoenixFD Smoke? PhoenixFD Liquid works just fine in Vray Z Depth, but when I tried rendering my Smoke Sim in PhoenixFD in the ZDepth Pass straight away, it is just displayed white, which is a pity cause it…

I think you can get z depth with the geometry mode both in Max and Maya. AFAIK, 3ds max do not support volumetric z depth yet.

Thanks. As a temporary solution I figured I use a vray environment fog with the fog color set to black. :slight_smile: Actually it seems to work quite well, but I guess it’s far from being a clean solution.

you mean deep export? for deep export you have to render in geometry volumetric mode

Z Depth Rendering of Fire/Smoke

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Da_elf July 3, 2014, 12:20am 4

i thought vray 3 does deep rendering. wouldnt pheonix smoke be affected by that?

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Z Depth Rendering of Fire/Smoke

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