Chaos Group has announced the official release date of Phoenix FD for Maya, and it’s just a few days away – November 5, 2012. More information about Phoenix FD for Maya will be available then, but here’s what we know so far…
Phoenix FD for Maya Key Features
- Ability to simulate smoke, fire, liquids, splashes, and foam
- GPU accelerated preview allowing real-time control over shading
- Adaptive grid to dynamically adjust the simulation grid size as needed
- Flexible particle shader with different shading modes such as foam, splashes, and fog including control over advanced effects like scattering, reflection and refraction
- Interactive rendering with V-Ray RT
- GI, lighting, and motion blur with V-Ray
- Support for all standard Maya fields dynamics
