FumeFX Crash on Sim

[Ronnee]

When I adjust the detail parameter of turbulence noise and click sim I get a hard crash to desktop. If I keep it at one it will let me sim for a few frames before it crashes. I'm using the latest fumefx for 3dsmax 2016.

I have a simple particle source as my emitter. Is it possible The density is getting so high it crashes the sim?

Here's a copy of my scene:
https://we.tl/3wjLMXoZGH

Increasing the turbulence noise detail to 5 is guaranteed to crash for me, although it crashes randomly if left at 1.

[Ronnee]

Workaround: I turned off the fuel channel and now it doesn't crash.

[sitnisati]

Hello,

Thank you for report.
I have tried your scene with FumeFX 4.0.4, detail 5 and it crashed.
Next update will include this bug fix.

Regards,
Kresimir Tkalcec

[sitnisati]

Hello,

You can simulate with fire, but you should set burn rate variation to 0.0.
This should make it work as well.

Regards,
Kreismir Tkalcec

[Ronnee]

Great. Thank you!

[sitnisati]

You're welcome.
Thank you for the fire tip - it made finding the bug a lot easier.

Regards,
Kresimir Tkalcec

[Srieg]

I have a similar problem. On sim start I get an error message and then max crashes. Interesting thing is that I already simed once the same thing. Sometimes it helped to delete old cache files. First I thought it was something wrong with me upping the resolution, but then I tried make it low, but it crashed also.

*edit* : it seems that if you (accidentaly) switched of the particle system in pflow for the fume sim it tends to crash.

[sitnisati]

Hello,

Thank you for the report.
Can you please post a simple scene that will crash on your system ?
We cannot reproduce that here.

Regards,
Kresimir Tkalcec