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Chaos Phoenix is capable of a wide range of effects including fire, smoke, liquids, flames, explosions, rigid body simulations, ocean waves, mist and splashes to list just a few. Quick presets and fast setup make it easy to get started, and its powerful simulation engine offers complete control over more complex effects.
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Powerful Chaos® Phoenix is an all-in-one solution for fluid dynamics in 3ds Max and Maya. Simulate realistic fire, smoke, liquids, ocean waves, splashes, spray, mist and more. |
Artist-friendly Built for 3D artists who want to create fluid dynamic effects that are fast to set up and easy to control. |
Interactive Preview and render interactively in the viewport. Fine-tune simulations on the fly. |
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Creative control Create all types of physically-based fluid effects with fast, smart controls for rendering, retiming and refining simulations. |
Smart integration Phoenix is integrated seamlessly with Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya and optimized to render with V-Ray®. |
Compatibility Compatible with industry-standard tools and formats such as OpenVDB and Alembic, as well as Krakatoa and thinkingParticles for 3ds Max. |
What's New
Phoenix 4, update 4 introduces features and improvements including collision between Active Bodies, Color Absorption and Massive Wave Force, to let artists achieve production-quality simulations in less time.
This update is also Autodesk 3ds Max 2022 and Maya 2022 compatible.
Advanced effects are now easier and faster to create
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Active Bodies collision |
Color Absorption |
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Massive Wave Force Build highly realistic ocean simulations. Create real-world ocean waves, using the Massive Wave Force feature. |
Extended motion blur support on V-Ray GPU Leverage GPU power to add motion blur to splashes and bubble mode in the Particle Shader. |
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Faster rendering and simulations Take advantage of various speed gains on simulation, rendering and previews. |
Phoenix property lister window Quickly access and change the Phoenix properties of each object in your scene—all in one place. |
Autodesk 3ds Max 2022 and Maya 2022 support Phoenix is now fully compatible with the latest Autodesk releases. |
Key Features
- LIQUIDS, SPLASHES & FOAM - With Phoenix you can create realistic liquid simulations with splashes and foam directly in 3ds Max and Maya.
- SMOKE, FIRE & EXPLOSIONS - Create any type of fire and smoke effects with Phoenix FD's powerful, adaptive-grid dynamics engine.
- INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS - Fine-tune simulations interactively in the viewport with Phoenix FD’s GPU-accelerated preview.
- REFINE SIMULATIONS - Add detail and increase resolution without changing simulation shape or behavior.
- TURBULENCE - Perfect for generating small wisps of smoke and steam.
- PARTICLES - Render particles as bubbles, drops, points, or fog.
- MESH & PARTICLES IO - Import & export mesh objects and particles to OpenVDB, Alembic, Krakatoa, XMesh and V-Ray proxy files for 3ds Max, and OpenVDB, Alembic and V-Ray proxy files for Maya.
- VORTICITY - Simulate highly-realistic and complex vorticity effects with full control over large-scale vortex strength and ultra-fine details.
- CUSTOM EMISSION SOURCES - Use a wide range of customizable emission sources – animated meshes, texture maps and particles – to drive complex simulations.
- OPTIMIZED RENDERING - Render photorealistic liquids and volumetric effects using V-Ray's optimized Phoenix FD shader.
- CASCADE SIMULATIONS - Create a series of simulations that trigger and interact with each other.
- SIMULATION RETIMING - Speed up or slow down simulation playback. Perfect for slow motion effects.
- OCEAN SIMULATIONS - Easily create ocean surfaces that never repeat using procedural ocean displacement. Preview and render the ocean surface without simulating cache files.
- OCEAN & BEACH WAVES - Seamlessly transition from procedural ocean to simulated beach waves.
- FORCES - Influence simulations with forces like waves, wind, spline follow, mesh attraction and more.
- ACCURATE VIEWPORT PREVIEW - Preview fire, smoke and liquid simulations quickly and accurately in the viewport.
- ACTIVE BODIES - Float your objects over pools or wash them away in floods with basic rigid body simulation for Phoenix liquids. Interaction between Active Bodies is coming soon.
- VOXEL AND PARTICLE TUNERS - Change each voxel and particle's properties during simulation, and use customizable conditions to delete particles.
- SIMULATION LICENSES - Use Phoenix FD simulation licenses to submit jobs over the network to Deadline and Backburner.
Specs
Installation Requirements
In order to work properly, this product requires:
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Autodesk Maya Begin your journey into the world of 3D graphics and animation. |
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Autodesk 3ds Max 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software for games and design visualization. |
Support & Maintenance
A Phoenix FD 4 for Maya major version has active SOFTWARE SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE from its release date to the following next major release date. During the SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE stage Chaos will:
- Release minor updates including patches, bug fixes, service packs, enhancements, new minor features, and platform compatibility updates.
- Provide support and technical assistance to clients.
- Provide software builds for download.
HW Specs
Recommended System Specification
Manufacturer's system requirements are generally the bare minimum that you need to run the software and insufficient for effective and productive operation of the product.
Our suggested "real world" mid-range desktop system key specifications to properly run Phoenix FD are as follows:
- CPU: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 32GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA QUADRO RTX4000
- Hard Drive: 1TB NVMe
- Operating System: Windows 10 Pro
Novedge, in partnership with High Speed Computing, can also provide the perfect hardware for your design needs, pre-installed with your software, at a very competitive price. Contact us to discuss custom-configured workstations and laptops.
Suggested Workstation
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CPU: Intel Core i9 |