Max PFlow Particle Limit

#273824

By Bogdan Coroi - Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:59 pm

- Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:59 pm #273824

Then there's a bug floating around somewhere. Care to share the scene, so I can have a look?

#273825

By Bubbaloo - Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:15 am

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:15 am #273825

I'll start a new topic in the Bugs/Max section in the Beta testers area tomorrow where I'll post the scene. Thanks.

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
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#273828

By rivoli - Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:56 am

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:56 am #273828

pflow doesn't create istances (even though it says "shape instance"), any particle will be a unique mesh.

#273830

By Bubbaloo - Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:15 am

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:15 am #273830

That's not true. It worked in 1.6.1. (I think)

Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
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Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

#273863

By Bogdan Coroi - Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:21 pm

- Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:21 pm #273863

pflow doesn't create istances

PFlow creates them as instances, but it's a renderer job to treat them as instances. Default Scanline ignores them. Maxwell treats them as instances since 1.6.1.

#274002

By rivoli - Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:24 am

- Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:24 am #274002

as far as I know it doesn't, it creates meshes and passes them to the renderer. I even remember reading something about this from bobo, I for one had a lot of troubles with pflow not really instancing anything.
but anyway, I may be wrong, and if maxwell can handle the job that's good to hear. lets hope you'll find out what's not working here.