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price
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USD 845*
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USD 830*
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Simulation
capability
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fire,
smoke and explosion
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Fire,
smoke, explosion, water, high viscosity fluid, Infinite ocean with splash and
foam, beer foam, boat wake
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UI
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Floating
UI
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Rollout
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cache
file path
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Absolute
path
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Relative
path to scene, $(implicit)
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Adaptive
Grid
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YES, plus expanding grid option
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Fully
controlled, fit in cam view
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Opacity
for smoke and fire
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One
for fire, one for smoke
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shared One for fire, one for smoke
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Particle
shader
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PHXFoam,
able to render (large amount of) particle
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Default
Object Interaction
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Inclusive
list
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Exclusive
list
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Ocean
Texture Map
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PhoenixFDOcean
Tex
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Color
gradient / curve editor
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user
friendly
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difficult friendly with advanced controls
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Particle
source control
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user
friendly, radius with curve editor
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through
particle size or "Custom Prt Size"
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Gravity
helper
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YES,
straightforward and effective
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Other
forces
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PlainForce,
BodyForce and WaveForce
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2D
Simulation
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YES
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Viewport
preview
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accurate
viewport preview
auto
reduction
auto
range
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Interactive
simulation (Simulation not locking the gui)
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YES
(start form FumeFX 4.0)
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YES
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Amp.
resolution
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Wavelet
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Resimulation:
wavelet, interpolate
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retime
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YES,
Post Processing
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YES,
resimulation /time blend: general purpose or slow down
Mode:
Linear, cache index, Loop
Frm.Blend:
Interpolation, velocity
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Workflow
for resim / select cache
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straightforward,
Sim Mode
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Automatic
switch caches, might be confusing for beginner
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Inertial
forces
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YES, Use Grid Motion
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YES,
can link sim grid to moving object, i.e.: moving torch
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Dynamic
solvers
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Solvers:
CG and QCG Advection: Default, Advanced (fields), Advanced(fields
and vels)
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Conservation:
Direct Symmetric, Direct Smooth and Buffered, PCG Symmetric
Advection
methods: Classic, Slow moving,
Forward transfer, Multi-pass and FLIP
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Advanced
vorticity
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vorticity
II
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Massive
vorticity
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Fluid
Mapping
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YES
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heathaze
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YES
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displace
voxels post-sim
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NO
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YES
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Fire
create smokes
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YES
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YES,
Fuel: enable burning
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Smoke
buoyancy
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Sensitive
to dynamic, unlimited
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range
from 10 to -10
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Cache
optimization
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Drop
unused channels by post processing
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1)Storage
quality control (similar to jpeg compression)
2)
No-Export Channels option in the Resimulation
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Import
Field3D, openVOD
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support
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support
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Export
PRT
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support
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support
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Export
Alembic
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support
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Self-illuminate
acceleration
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Illumination
map
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Grid-based
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Render
acceleration
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probabilistic
shading
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Black-body
shader
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YES
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YES,
Allowed gradual transition between the default Black Body Fire model and an
artistic model using the 'Physically Based' option
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Sharpness
control
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Sharpen
strength for fire and smoke
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Sampler
type: Box, Linear and Spherical
Content
Smoothing for separate channel
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Render
elements
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FumeFXfire,
FumeFXsmoke, velocity, zdepth
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YES
for Maya version
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Integration
with Particle Flow
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FumeFX
Birth, Follow, Test
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PhoenixFD
Birth, Force, Test
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Integration
with thinkingParticles
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FumeFX
Birth, Follow, Probe
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GPU
Preview
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Floating
viewport
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Through
3dsmax extended viewport or
Display
on current viewport
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Solid
mode
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YES
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Network
simulation
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through
backburner
"...it is possible to send many variations of the same simulation across the
network and pick the result the user likes the most..."
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Backburner
or Deadline,
"... several simulations with varying parameters are simulated, each on a separate
computer..."
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Spline
Follow
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YES
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YES,
follow path
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Render
Warps
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YES
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Effectors
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YES
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Learning
curve
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Lots
of parameters, take time to learn
New
Quick Presets provides several quick settings as good starting point
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Renderer
compatability
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mentalRay
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V-Ray
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Customer
support
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Offical
forum and Facebook group
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