Chaos Group has announced a new update to Phoenix FD, its fluid dynamics tool for 3ds Max and Maya. Version 4.3 adds force tuning to Voxel and Particle Tuners to “allow forces to affect particles or voxels with certain channels, inside or outside geometries, or according to textures, effectively allowing you to mask forces and gain precise control over how, when and where forces affect the simulation.”
Also included are speed improvements when previewing particles, the ability to preview rendering displacement of the particles in the viewport, faster rendering of fire and smoke with probabilistic shading as well as general improvement to the simulation speed of fire and smoke simulations, and large FLIP liquid simulations.
See the changes in full on the online changelog.
