Chaos Group announces the new and significantly improved version of their grid-based simulator Phoenix FD. Phoenix FD is a powerful tool for fluid simulations. Aimed to meet the needs of VFX artist to simulate fire, smoke, explosions as well as liquids, foam and splashes, it has now become universal simulation software for every production house. Phoenix FD offers exceptional flexibility and speed. With an adaptive grid, complete interactivity, a GPU accelerated preview and a fully multi-threaded displacement algorithm it stands out as one of the top solutions for fluid simulations in the visual effects industry. It supports Max platforms 9 – 2012.
Phoenix FD 2.0 for 3ds Max Key Features
- Foam and splashes particle shader - the user to have full control when shading foam and splashes particles generated by the new core.
- Simulation of foam and splashes - the user to further increase the realism of liquid simulations.
- GPU Preview improvements - fully supports lighting and diffuse color shading and additionally, the renderings can be automatically saved as PNG files in the simulation directory.
- Render particles as smoke - the rendering of small tightly packed particles as a volumetric smoke
- Particle export - the user to add even finer detail to all types of simulations without the need to increase the simulation resolution
Phoenix FD 2.0 available now for Windows and Mac OS X, price $960 or 700€. All customers who have purchased Phoenix FD between 01 September, 2011 and 21 November, 2011 are entitled to a free upgrade.
Find out more: Chaos Group