FumeFX 4.0 released

Oct 26, 2015 by CGP Staff

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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.