Hi, I'm having issues with the Object Distance Controller in Fumefx

I have tested it with a plane as my object source and an animated sphere as my Object Distance - controlling the smoke amount.
No matter what values I put as "minimum influence" and "maximum influence", I can not make my source emit smoke the closer the sphere is to it.
What does happen though, is that the smoke gets removed the closer the sphere is to the source. I've tried flipping the "minimum influence" and "maximum influence" values, but it produces the exact same result.

I basically want to invert the effect, so it adds smoke rather than remove smoke.

Am I missing something or is this a bug in fumefx? There is not a lot of documentation for this.

- My working units are in cm, but that shouldn't influence Fumefx.
- My smoke type is "set"

Hello !

I need to deploy FumeFX on ~150 nodes.
So i'm trying to make a silence installation for rendering only to batch it with Deadline.

I didn't find any information in doc or on the forum.
I've tryed to cmd :
.\FumeFX401R2015.EXE -?
.\FumeFX401R2015.EXE -s
.\FumeFX401R2015.EXE -gui=0

and some stuff like that (basic options i used to exec with vray or forest) but looks like the exe didn't have any help options.


How can i silence install FumeFX please ?

thanks

If VRayShadow is used, FumeFX4 will freeze by the rendering of V-Ray.
(Environment is affected)

It confirms in V-Ray 3.30 for 3dsMax 2016,2015,2014

Just curious if anyone has done bullet trails like in the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RypVmBm3bCw tralier around 28 seconds.

Ill be updating this post on my progress but any insight would be appreciated

Hello there !

First post here, we have finally invested into FumeFX.

I've trouble while establishing my licence server.
Just followed the tutorial video :

- AfterFlics (3.1.4) installed on server, run as Administrator. I've made all firewall exceptions and i even turn it OFF temporarily (just to avoid firewall issues).
Status looks good : service is running, licence localhost, everyone allowed.


- On my workstation, FFX installed (4.0 R2016). Adding my server with IP.
Try to authorize online, with 1 serial.
Filling all informations... and got :
" Your product cannot be authorized online.
Please use Manual authorization. "

Then switching to Manual. What's Auth Code ?
Trying to authorize just like this. And here i got a licence error 6. But my server generated a .lic file, and found it...

When i'm trying to build a FumeFX object, no licence are found and a licence is asked...



Thanks for helping !

-pingus-

Hello, I am having another newbie problem.

I just downloaded the upgrade from 3.5 to 4 and I am attempting to get it working.

On my workstation I uninstalled the previous version completely because I want to run AfterFLICS on my license server. I previously licensed FFX from my workstation.

I copied the FFX 4 installer (FumeFX40R2014) to my license server and ran a custom install there, only installing AfterFLICS. It installed successfully and the service is running.

However when I look in the licenses tab of AfterFLICS Tools, it is listing this:

FumeFX 3.5.5 SL with 1 license
FumeFX 3.5.5 with 1 license

I don't know why it is listing 3.5.5 licenses when I installed it from a v4 installer. It says it is AfterFLICS Tools 3.1.3. Is this the correct version of AfterFLICS?

On my workstation I did a custom install without AfterFLICS because I want to get the license from the license server. In Max I try to open FumeFX and nothing happens.

Please help? I will be glad to add any information necessary to help me.

Thanks very much for your time and help.

Hi there.

i`m trying to light up a obj-source with fuel but no temperature. to do this i use a simple-source with high temp but no fuel. everything works fine, but my object-source generates
smoke befor it is burning.
how can i prevent this?
can anybody help?
cheers,
mario

I'm a bit disappointed about the amount of help material and tutorials there are for fume fx maya and vray. So I wrote this tutorial. Hopefully it will help some of you. Enjoy!

http://mayazest.blogspot.com/2015/11/cr ... x-and.html

-Ethan
http://mayazest.blogspot.com/

Hi there,

I'm trying to export the color data so that I can render the fume fx sim in the vray volume grid. I can select to export temperature and velocity. But not color. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

-Ethan

trying out fumefx 4.0 before putting into production. when creating a new fresh test scene, ffx sims fast as expected (in a simple high spacing test scene). then test scene is saved to disk, and upon a resim, the cache writing is extremely slow. something happening when fumefx 4 has a filename to reference?

running win 7, simming to local drive. no previous slowdown with fumefx 3.x