FumeFX 4.0 released

Sitni Sati has released v4.0 of its fluid dynamics plugin for 3DS Max, bringing a solver that is up to twice as fast, new vorticity type that allows to fine tune final results, a Spline Follow force field, OpenVDB support and much more.

List of new features:

• New QCG solver that is up to twice as fast.
• New vorticity type.
• Sharpening of various channels during the simulation.
• New burning model with oxygen.
• Wavelet or Post simulation to be able to wait for caches (DC-deferred caches option).
• Infinite nesting of N-Sim grids.
• Email notifications.
• Spline Follow force.
• Faster application of objects and sources.
• Defector objects voxelization resolution and minimal
  voxelization.
• OpenVDB support.
• Effector has an option to use a 3D Texmap for input.
• Field3D and OpenVDB importer allows for channels assignment.
• PRT|PDC particle system.
• Direct picking of ParticleFlow events.
• ParticleFlow float and vector channel access.
• Motion blur rendering support.
• Black-body radiation shader for achieving realistic fire and explosion animations.
• Support for V-Ray’s deep data.
• Sharpening of fire and smoke at render time.
• Recently used caches list.
• Caches drag and drop.
• Quick path/filename versioning.
• Cache files delete.
• FumeFX.ini location can be defined with the environment variable FUMEFX_INI.
• Read-only mode so that user can’t overwrite caches by accident.
• CPU Preview Window can have shadows as well.
• Shadows inside the Max viewport.
• Preview Window exact window size.
• MXS: CancelSimulation(), StopSimulation(),DeleteCaches(),ResizePreview(width, height).
• Support for 64-bit Windows only.

More on Sitni Sati’s website.