The new grid based simulator for fire, smoke and haze Phoenix Fluid Dynamics is released Hot news about the latest product developed by Chaos Group: the fluid dynamics plug-in for 3ds Max Phoenix FD is officially released and available from today, 9th of August 2010. Phoenix FD is in a promotional period from the 9th of August until 10th of September 2010 with a promotion price of €350. The official product price is €695.The software perfectly combines a grid based simulator with outstanding rendering capabilities. In addition to the usual uniform fluid behavior, Phoenix FD is capable of simulating a whole array of additional processes like pressure decay, thermal radiation cooling and mass-temperature dependence.The product comes with a number of new features like fast physically based simulation core, background simulation, wind from movement, fluid source form pre-simulated surface, particle based sources, GPU accelerated preview, texture driven simulation, displacement, rendering of textures and many others.