3DSMax – PhoenixFD – Overview
Aren you thirsty?
Would you like a (digital) beer?
Phoenix FD is the right tool for you!
Joking aside, Phoenix FD is a powerful tool for fluid simulations.
It has a lot of strong points:
– easy simulate fire, smoke, explosions as well as liquids, foam and splashes
– flexibility and speed
– GPU accelerated preview
– fully multi-threaded displacement algorithm
– filly compatible with V-Ray (the producer is Chaos Group, creator of V-Ray)
Let’s take a look to menus and main functions
Objects
RIGHT COLUMN> Create> Geometry> PhoenixFD
– PHXSimulator
– PHXFoam
Helpers
RIGHT COLUMN> Create> Helpers> PhoenixFD
– PHXSource
– PHXTurbolence
– PHXMapper
– PRTObject
– PHXLiquid
Materials
MAIN TOP MENU> Rendering> Material/Map Browser> Maps> Standard>
– PhoenixFD Particle Texture
– PhoenixFD Particle Texmap
– PhoenixFD Particle OceanTex
Environment
MAIN TOP MENU> Rendering> Environment> Atmophere> PhoenixFD
