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Submitted byAnonymouson03-16-201810:18 AM
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Under Review
Incorporate a robust meshing solution and improved dynamics
Something similar to FrostMX that can mesh particles quickly and easily. Blobmesh is slow and highly unreliable (at least when I have tried to use it!) The bifrost implementation into Max was a real step forward, let's reduce the need to move to other apps such as Houdini for particles and dynamics.
We need a comprehensive solution, basically Data channel modifier and MCG for fields, not just meshing. Take the data in with a set of creator, reference and loader objects. Manipulate it in a series of data channel and MCG modifiers. Then send it to max compatible renderers. Use the fields as velocity sources for particles, map lookups in the material editor, geometry lookups.
But yes, this without control is nothing. We need MCG controlling and being able to manipulate data from particles (PRT support!) and send it to VDB, then yes, max will be again on FX track. If you need ideas, just look what you can do with magmaflow (and how easy or lets say straight forward it is compared to MCG). Support also Pflow, and ThinkingParticles is a must.
I know the original request is about meshing but... since OpenVDB has been mentioned by a Autodesk employee above - we also need a way to generate and manipulate volumes with maps/textures/OSL/forces/dummies etc. Currently we have no framework to do this in Max but it's really high time something like this gets not only looked at but actually brought in as a feature. Importing OpenVDB is fine but it's not enough. Thanks!
A generic tool to convert point data of all kinds into a mesh would be very powerful, especially in combination with a general volume toolset (e.g. OpenVDB). With this, we could create all kinds of great signed-distance/iso-surface-based geometry by merging the points of various elements into one continuous surface. A related keyword to look into here is Poisson Reconstruction, which does a great job at building meshes from points+normals.
