3ds Max 2018.3 includes Fluids and more!

[Kelly_Michels]

#3dsmax 2018.3 includes the most highly requested community feature, fluid simulation, plus more! http://bit.ly/2wZCuYo 

https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/the-3ds-max-blog/introducing-3ds-max-2018-update-3/

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

About time!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Congratulations for everyone involved. This was a really unexpected surprise. Now i just have to find time to play with it..

[martin.coven]

We are very excited about getting this into our users hands! I hope you all enjoy working with them. If you have any questions along the way, we will be lurking around to try and answer anything that you might stumble on.

Sim away!

Martin

[Kelly_Michels]

I was very fortunate to work on the team with this feature  and been anxiously awaiting the announcement. I can't wait to see creations from everyone!

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

Great job, guys.
Please follow up with tutorials, so that we are carried along.
Thank you!

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

Can oceans and foam be simulated too?.

[martin.coven]

Yes!

[Kelly_Michels]

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@Tochukwunwankwere20 wrote:
Great job, guys.
Please follow up with tutorials, so that we are carried along.
Thank you!

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Please check here: Autodesk 3ds Max Learning Channel

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

Omg!!!. This is really going to give a boost to max now. There has never been a prouder moment yet.
God bless...Thank you!

[JabbaTheNut]

I am very happy to see this type of development in 3ds Max!  It renews my faith in the product. 

[Tochukwunwankwere20]

@JabbaTheNut. You speak for all of us!.

[dgorsman]

Looks like there's a bit of movement on the Arnold side as well.  I spy a note indicating support for ReCap point clouds...

[Anonymous]

I did a test with the new fluid sim this morning, very nice but if I close and open my test scene, all the simulation is gone and I cannot load my saved cache file. Any clue?

[martin.coven]

Hi Jean, 

In order to see the simulation, you will need to open your simulation view and select the solve you want to see. You can have multiple solves, so this selection points to the corresponding cache files.

Hope that helps!

Martin

[Anonymous]

I have only one solver in my scene and it doesn't work

[Anonymous]

Cannot find the way to render RCS/RCP by Arnold (( What I do wrong? 

[martin.coven]

Hi Jean, 

Can you create a screen grab showing what's going on?

[Anonymous]

[Isaac_Zuniga]

Wow, I'm quite surprised that they released such a massive feature in the already-released 3ds Max 2018. If you were to ask me, I was expecting this to be released in the future as the flagship feature of the new release of 3ds Max 2020 or something like that.

Now if only they can get the fluids to work properly with the ART renderer...