Do these videos show new simulation features in Maya?
Watch an enigmatic set of teasers of smoke, fire, cloth and granular fluids, posted to Autodesk's Twitter.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
Phoenix FD
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Destroy the Avengers antihero using 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD in this epic set of free tutorials.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.14 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulation tools get improved simulation previews, reduced flicker when rendering FLIP sims.
Friday, May 17th, 2019
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow for 3ds Max in free open beta
Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.13 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulation tools get support for VDB particle caches. FLIP liquid simulations now 'up to 2x' faster.
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service
Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.12 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 2 for 3ds Max
New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Online documentation for V-Ray Next for Max goes live
Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.
Friday, May 4th, 2018
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya
Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: fluid simulator gets new FLIP solver for liquids, updated gaseous fluid solver, new forces.
Friday, March 10th, 2017
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for 3ds Max
Big update to fluid simulator adds new FLIP liquids solver; new options for art directing and retiming sims.
Friday, September 16th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for 3ds Max 3.20
New video: Service pack adds new VR cameras, GPU-based texture baking, option to render fluid sims.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015