Chaos Phoenix

Powerful

Chaos Phoenix is an all-in-one solution for fluid dynamics in 3ds Max and Maya. Simulate realistic fire, smoke, liquids, ocean waves, splashes, spray, mist and more.

Artist-friendly

Built for 3D artists who want to create fluid dynamic effects that are fast to set up and easy to control.

Interactive

Preview and render interactively in the viewport. Adjust simulations on the fly.

Creative control

Create all types of physically-based fluid effects with fast, flexible controls for rendering, retiming and refining simulations.

Smart integration

Phoenix is integrated seamlessly with Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya and optimized to render with V-Ray® and Corona.

Compatibility

Compatible with industry-standard tools and formats such as OpenVDB and Alembic, as well as Krakatoa and thinkingParticles for 3ds Max.

Thruster Force

Create procedural animations inside Phoenix — move active bodies with a directable engine force.

Axis Lock

Restrict active bodies to move or rotate along a selected horizontal or vertical axis.

More controls

Extra control over how active bodies interact with your scene — choose whether they should emit, attract, retain fluids, and much more.

Stormy sea

Jet engine

Ice cubes

Liquids, Splashes & Foam

With Phoenix you can create realistic liquid simulations with splashes and foam directly in 3ds Max and Maya.

Smoke, Fire & Expressions

Create any type of fire and smoke effects with Phoenix FD’s powerful, adaptive-grid dynamics engine.

Interactive Simulations

Fine-tune simulations interactively in the viewport with Phoenix FD’s GPU-accelerated preview.

Simulations Refinement

Add detail and increase resolution without changing simulation shape or behavior.

Turbulence

Perfect for generating small wisps of smoke and steam.

Particles

Render particles as bubbles, drops, points, or fog.

Mesh & Particles IO

Import & export mesh objects and particles to OpenVDB, Alembic, Krakatoa, XMesh and V-Ray proxy files for 3ds Max, and OpenVDB, Alembic and V-Ray proxy files for Maya.

Vorticity

Simulate highly-realistic and complex vorticity effects with full control over large-scale vortex strength and ultra fine details.

Custom Emission Sources

Use a wide range of emission sources including animated meshes, texture maps, particles and more.

Optimized Rendering

Render photorealistic liquids and volumetric effects using the Phoenix shader.

Color Absorption

A whole new level of volume rendering effects using Colored Absorption. Achieve more control over smoke shading—change the light’s color as it travels through smoke.

Cascade Simulations

Create a series of simulations that trigger and interact with each other.

Simulation Retiming

Speed up or slow down simulation playback. Perfect for slow motion effects.

Ocean simulations

Easily create ocean surfaces that never repeat using procedural ocean displacement. Preview and render the ocean surface without simulating cache files.

Ocean & Beach Waves

Seamlessly transition from procedural ocean to simulated beach waves.

Forces

Influence simulations with forces such as wind, spline follow, mesh attraction, and build realistic ocean simulations with Massive Wave Force.

Accurate Viewport Preview

Preview fire, smoke and liquid simulations quickly and accurately in the viewport.

Active bodies

Float your objects over pools or wash them away in floods with basic rigid body simulation for Phoenix liquids. Interaction between Active Bodies is coming soon.

Active Bodies collision

Complete control over collisions between Active Bodies using the Bullet solver. Easily create effects such as colliding ice cubes in liquid, floating ocean debris or objects washed away in floods.

Voxel and Particle Tuners

Change each voxel and particle’s properties during simulation, and use customizable conditions to delete particles.

Simulation Licenses

Use Phoenix simulation licenses to submit jobs over the network to Deadline and Backburner.