FumeFX General Questions

[mgr0704]

Hi, I am interested in buying FumeFX for Maya, but have a few questions.
Hi, I am interested in buying FumeFX for Maya, but have a few questions.

1) Would I buy FumeFX 5.0 [maya] Workstation OR FumeFX 5.0 [maya] Workstation and FumeFX Simulation + 5 Shaders bundle?

2) I have an AMD Ryzen 16 core with 64GB of RAM and a GEForce GTX 1080 Graphics Card. Is that sufficient? to run FumeFX or painfully slow?

3) Compared to Maya's Bifrost fluid system to create fire and smoke, is FumeFX more difficult to learn, easier, or about the same? 


Thanks.
Hi, I am interested in buying FumeFX for Maya, but have a few questi

[Kresimir Tkalcec]

Hello,

If you have another machines apart from your workstation that have Maya installed (license required) and you can use those to run the simulation then I'd suggest that you get extra SL licenses. This is very useful as you can run FumeFX simulations on those computers and use your workstation for other tasks.
It also depends which renderer do you use - FumeFX/Arnold shader requires shading license, while using Arnold Standard Volume does not.
The computer you have seems be very nice to run FumeFX simulation. When talking about the simulation speed, it's always better to have cores running on higher clock than to have more cores.
We don't have experience with Bifrost so it's hard to be objective on comparison, but FumeFX is not too difficult to learn.

Feel free to ask any questions you might have.