I have been playing around with the vortex spacewarp and have been noticing that it doesn't behave the way it should. If I add it into my sim it adds more of a directional wind force instead of the desired vortex. I even opened an older scene file where the vortex had worked with a previous version of Fume, but noticed that it wasn't working anymore. Is this a possible known issue?

Hello,

We have created a simple but very useful command line utility (currently an early alpha version) that can save FumeFX caches as .fxd, .vdb or .f3d.
It is also possible to minimize grid and exclude channels during the process.
Future builds and updates will be available only from our members area.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome.

Best regards,
Kresimir Tkalcec

how change "FumeFX Preferences" setting without using GUI?

example, when FumeFX simulation on the render farm, may want to change "Field3D Compression" from the default to gzip.
in this case, it is useful to be able to change the setting with the mel or python script.

Hi,

I have had to reinstall my PC due to a dead hard disk. I have installed 3D Studio Max 2017 and FumeFX (including online authorization) with no problems. However, after installing Afterburn 3.2 I tried the online product activation. I received a message "Your product cannot be authorized online. Please use Manual authorization." Manual authorization asks for an Auth Code: which I don't seem to have. Can you tell me what this should be or where to get it please? Not sure if I would still have this given the loss of my C: drive. Thanks. Mateen

In Max 2016, recently installed, after drawing the bounding box, clicking on the UI icon does not bring up the UI. FumeFX is also installed on my Max 2013, and it works fine. Some help please.

Dear users,

We are pleased to announce that product manuals are now available online at: https://docs.afterworks.com/
Feel free to browse FumeFX for 3ds Max, FumeFX for Maya, FumeFX for Cinema4D, DreamScape and AfterBurn documentation.

Sincerely,
Sitni Sati support

Hi,

I am working on an explosion shot which is 600 frames long. after the initial explosion smokes raises up into the air along with the fire ball. We want to keep the smoke stay longer while rising up. but no matter what I do the smoke keeps dissipating after around 250 frames.
I reduced the vorticity, reduced the smoke dissipation parameters completely to 0.
changed Advection stride to 0.05.
But I still cannot manage to stop the dissipation. Seems like there is something inherent in the solver which dissipates the smoke. I just cant figure it out.
Any help is highly appreciated.

I am attaching a render from a low res sim and this one around 250 frames after the initial explosion.
After this the smoke gets dissipated and diffused quite a bit, which we donot want.

Hello,
What are the units in QCG Vorticty scale? It seems it is too small for any reasonable grid size, like 0,01 mm if grid cell is 10cm, for example? Is this scene units or some ratio? And what asterisk * symbol does mean on the side of the value? Sometimes is present, sometimes is not.

Couldn't find any info on this in documentation.
Thanks,
nl

hi guys. i just want to Normal Render Pass

im rendered with mental-ray.

if i get some more pass. it's really nice when i composite.

plz let me know how to or if it's not support then tellme some tip .

thank you.

i attach my works.

Hey guys,

Im using a cached Pflow (tried both with the mesher and Xmesh saver) and during the simulation i get error messages "The mesh is inconsistent and velocity will be 0 (zero)". Why is that happening? Result it seems that that Cached pflow has no influence on the Fumefx sim, no collision, nothing. ANy reason for that? I have zero doubt that velocity was cached with the paticle flow system and within the Xmesh saved cached, and it has 4 subsamples wchi is more than i use in the FumeFX sim anyway.

Any help is welcome.

Cheers,

A.