I really miss the integration of scripting that is included in the Max version of fumeFX. It would be really nice be able to write a script to submit a scene to our farm after a simulation. Also, I used a trick with Max to get slow-motion explosions by exporting the cache at subframes. You can't do this with the Maya version, and the re-timing post processing is problematic for fast moving simulations.

Thanks,
Karl

Does motion blur work at all within a FumeFX container? I saw the post earlier about the adaptive grid, but that seems to only apply to the container moving around. I have a fast moving explosion in a container that would be nicer with some motion blur.

Thanks,
Karl

Does Fume FX need to connect to a license server to render? I am attempting to render offsite and I am trying to debug why my renders are black.

Fred

Hi,

Is there a new version of the fumeFX shader available for the new mtoa 1.0.0 RC2 ?

Thanks

Hello, even with "primary visibilty" "off", the fumefx is still on my rendering.
In fact i'm trying to make a shadow pass, maybe i missed something.

I have one master grid where my sim starts and two child grids setup as Nsim on either side of the mastergrid. the sim runs and caches fine but when i come to do a particle follow the particles only go as far as the master and then collect at the extent of the grid.

Is there a way for me to allow the particles to carry on following the velocity of the sim through all nsim grids?

thanks.

Hello,

We just upgraded our licenses from version 2.1c to 3.5.3. We have encountered a bug where the new version does not recognize wavelet turbulence (extra detail channel) from the 2.1c simulation.

It seems as though version 3.5.3 sees fluid mapping in the extra detail from the 2.1c sim, instead of wavelet turbulence, and I am 100% positive this is not the case. We receive an error message when attempting to simulate wavelet (note: not exact message) "Extra detail channel contains fluid mapping information, wavelet turbulence info is required to continue sim. Please re-run default simulation with wavelet turbulence."

We have reverted to 2.1c on 2 workstations temporarily, because we want to avoid re-simulating the default cache, which is pretty long.

Thanks!

Erico

I am trying to upres a simulation with Wavelet Turbulence, but no matter what i set as Output Range, the Simulation always starts to read my default cache from the first frame on.

Is there a way to add wavelet Turbulence to just a part of the simulation, did i miss something?

Thanks,
Radoslaw

Hi,

when we turn the Maya Volume Sampling we always have the fumefx box in our alpha but when the box is small it did'nt really affect us until we had a long fumefx box then we really saw the alpha getting darker and darker.

Is there a way to not have the Maya volume Sampling render the fumefx volume in the alpha? or a work around?

thanks,
Eric

Hi I'm trying to get a render with matted object but I would like to have a shadow pass in the openExr buffer.

Right now are work around is the render the fumefx with the matted object using opacity black hole in the shader. Then Re-Render a other pass with fumefx and the objects not matted. But I need to render 2 time the fumefx. In a stereo show thats 4 time the render...

anyone knows how to do 1 render and to have fumefx Matted and with a shadow pass?

thanks,
Eric