Fume FX on Maya !!!

[bazuka]

Your scene seems to be empty. Anyways, UV are not enough to pass color to particle. You also need W coord. Anyways, I think this might work like in Fluid Maya effects - that you need to pass a position to grid and THEN sample the value (color eg.) I think simple particleRgbPP = fumeShape.Color[u][v][w] even though would be awesome, knowing Maya it won’t work.

scene is for maya 2014,

i didnt have any probl opening the scene…

[benio33]

scene is for maya 2014,

i didnt have any probl opening the scene…

Yeah I tried to open it in 2012 - as only there I got Fume installed. Strange though, that maya dodn’t give me any error when opening the scene file. That’s why I considered it empty.

[dmeyer]

Your scene seems to be empty. Anyways, UV are not enough to pass color to particle. You also need W coord. Anyways, I think this might work like in Fluid Maya effects - that you need to pass a position to grid and THEN sample the value (color eg.) I think simple particleRgbPP = fumeShape.Color[u][v][w] even though would be awesome, knowing Maya it won’t work.

Well this was fast. It has been fixed in 3.5.1

[bazuka]

i found an solution for guys who couldnt manage to render with mr

its simple, and this is for maya 2014 solution,

as we all know, mr is now separated from maya install and location of mr is in program files/autodesk

so when fumefx installs shaders for mr, installer copy them to maya/mentalrayForMaya2014

but for some reason mr cant see this location…

all u need to do is to copy from mentalrayForMaya2014 dir shaders directory to c:\Program Files\Autodesk\mentalrayForMaya2014\ or where ur mr location is and have fun

hope this helps

cheers

[Irakli]

Hey guys. Do the company offer trial version of this plugin?

[bazuka]

Hey guys. Do the company offer trial version of this plugin?

well you will have to send an email and ask them, its possible

cheers

[TheMarchHare]

Has anyone managed to get motion blur working? I’m noticing a little difference when I have it enabled, but nowhere near the amount I would expect.

[Irakli]

well you will have to send an email and ask them, its possible

cheers

Thanks! I´ll try.

[Flay]

Anybody here running Fume for Maya simulation licenses? I’m having some problems getting the wavelet extra detail channel to work command-line using a sim license. If I pull an interactive license, I don’t have the problem.

Just hoping somebody can confirm the issue exists.

[bazuka]

hm, didnt try, ill check…

[Flay]

Turns out there is a issue with Fume and maya’s ascii format. Binary works fine. We’re hoping that and the cache file permission issues are resolved in a upcoming release. Authors are aware.

[bazuka]

Turns out there is a issue with Fume and maya’s ascii format. Binary works fine. We’re hoping that and the cache file permission issues are resolved in a upcoming release. Authors are aware.

oh cool, how come u use .ma? dont know but im a fan of binary formats

great to know that fix will be resolved… thx for info

cheers

[hkspowers]

oh cool, how come u use .ma? dont know but im a fan of binary formats

great to know that fix will be resolved… thx for info

cheers

.ma is often used for debugging purposes. It’s easy to just open it in a text editor and delete anything that may be causing problems, especially notoriously stubborn dirty nodes “cough…cough… dirty turtle nodes all over the place”

Also before there was the option to ignore version when opening a file, it was the go to way to enable file reads in differing versions of Maya.

[silwerfeldt]

Is it possible to render fume with Vray? Are there any progress in doing this?

[mrmattvfx]

Hey guys, I’ve run into a problem using arnold in fume:

If my grid is boundless it all simulates fine and looks fine in the GPU preview and the viewport, but when I render with Arnold it only renders what’s inside the original sized grid, not the resized, adaptive grid, and so cuts off everything outside… I’m having to make my grid massive in order to render it all, but that’s changing the whole shape of the simulation

Has anyone else had this issue?

[johnnymr75]

Hey guys, I’ve run into a problem using arnold in fume:

If my grid is boundless it all simulates fine and looks fine in the GPU preview and the viewport, but when I render with Arnold it only renders what’s inside the original sized grid, not the resized, adaptive grid, and so cuts off everything outside… I’m having to make my grid massive in order to render it all, but that’s changing the whole shape of the simulation

Has anyone else had this issue?

I thought fumefx only supports vray and mental ray for maya. or are you using max?

[redpawFX]

Makes sense, the version you’re using in Arnold at the moment, was written before SitniSati, added the boundless grid settings.

This is a problem with the Fume MTOA translator plugin, not being aware of this new mode fune is capable of.

Please post this problem on the Afterworks support forums, they’re working on updates to the arnold shader at the moment for the first official release.

thanks
-j

[billpayer2005]

Is it possible to render out a FumeFX animation with GPU ?

[Ruslan588]

Is it possible to render out a FumeFX animation with GPU ?

With GPU you can do only a “preview”.

[billpayer2005]

But it looks like the preview is very close to final render quality?

Why not allow a frame sequence to be GPU rendered ?

It would be very fast. Maybe insanely fast with new Nvidia cards… Even at HD