Phoenix Fluid Dynamics for 3ds Max Upgrade

Chaosgroup has just released the first official upgrade for their new Fluid Dynamics plugin Phoenix. 

You can download the upgrade here (must be logged in).




Here are some of the new features and fixes you can now enjoy in Phoenix FD 1.1:


New features:

• Ability to select which channels to be affected from the sources
  
• Conservative advection (for slow motion and big scale simulations)
  
• Support of Thinking Particles systems as sources

Modified features:

• Improved multithreading of the simulation
  
• FPS indicator of the GPU preview
  
• Ability to change the channels presence during the simulation

Bugs fixed:

• Memory leak when adaptive grid is used with smoke, UVW or fuel channel.
  
• Crash when non solid object is used in brush mode
  
• Artifacts when the light cache is combined with some GI settings. 
  
• The texture modulation does not work with explicit coordinates (uvw channel)