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FumeFX 6 released

Mar 21, 2023 by CGPress Staff
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SitnSati has announced the release of FumeFX 6 for 3ds Max. This version includes NodeWorks,  a new node-based procedural system that includes particle system, rope, rigid body dynamics, cloth, soft body dynamics, voronoi fracturing, voxel grid manipulation, node based access to FumeFX simulation and interaction, extensive integration with the Arnold renderer supporting point rendering, procedural rendering of splines via Arnold curves, geometry instances, volumes and custom channels, ISurf – particle mesher object and much, much more. Over 140 ready-to-use nodes are included to help artists get up and running quickly. Find out more on the SitniSato website. 

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monja
2 years ago

Hmm which is preferred? The new Fumefx, Phoenix or Ember-gen for generalist?

William
Reply to  monja
2 years ago

Phoenix can do both fume and water very well and plays nice with vray, if u get tyflow then ur covered. This recent funefx version does seem very good, but the market has become competitive. Embergen is only good for more stylised smoke and fire, honestly doesnt come close to the grid resolutions either fume or phoenix can pull off so its not a replacement for either.

Stephen Green
Reply to  William
2 years ago

The new Embergen v1 is very good plus they are showcasing their sparse solver which looks promising – I don’t really see it as an either/or, depends on what you require for a particular scene and how quickly you want it

I have both FumeFX 5, Phoenix 4.2 and Embergen

The speed of Embergen is exceptional, but PhoenixFD has fluids, and the new FFX is sitting somewhere with TyFlow like features

Depends a lot on your needs, also you’ll need a decent GPU for Embergen – a 3080 is decent, a 4090 would be even better

ATony
Reply to  monja
1 year ago

I you want one tool that does it all and does it very good then FumeFX is your best choice. Embergen is fast but the sims look odd.

Rich
2 years ago

Released shortly after Embergen, how’s that for timing

Personally I would of much preferred GPU accelerated fire and smoke sims.

William
Reply to  Rich
2 years ago

Embergen is its own thing it cant do what fume or phoenix does. And gpu accelerated smoke will probably require a fomplete rewrite of code and frankly may be very limited. I have only seen one houdini plugin do it very well.

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