Install Bifrost Extension for Maya

Bifrost Extension for Maya is a plug-in that is released separately from Maya, in addition to being included with Maya.

• The Maya installer includes the version of Bifrost that was current at the time of the Maya release.
• Additional updates of Bifrost are available for download at the AREA. Visit (https://area.autodesk.com/bifrost/downloads/). These include updated versions of Bifrost for earlier releases of Maya.

The Bifrost Extension for Maya installer includes the following:

• A node-based environment where you can build procedural graphs to create effects such as sand, fire, smoke, and explosions.
• Bifrost Fluids, a procedural framework that can create simulated liquid and aerodynamic effects using a FLIP (fluid implicit particle) solver.
• BOSS, the Bifrost Ocean Simulation System.
• bifcmd, a command line tool that executes Bifrost graphs exported from the node-based environment.

Bifrost Extension for Maya is compatible with all Maya versions and their update releases beginning Maya 2019.

If you already use Bifrost Fluids and BOSS, you can continue to use these features with Bifrost Extension for Maya.

Legacy scenes that include Bifrost Fluids

When loading legacy scenes that include Bifrost Fluids, you may see an error as follows:

// Warning: Bifrost: to use the updated Bifrost graphs in Maya, graph |bifrostLiquid1|bifrostLiquidContainer1 needs to be updated to the latest version, call mel script: replaceBifrostFXGraphsWithFactoryGraphs |bifrostLiquid1|bifrostLiquidContainer1 ; //

// Error: bifrostLiquidContainer1: Emitters: Could set input port value. Failed to set input parameter Emitters //

// Error: Bifrost evaluation error //

To resolve the issue, execute the MEL command as indicated by the message. For example, if the liquid node is called bifrostLiquid1, run the command as follows:

replaceBifrostFXGraphsWithFactoryGraphs |bifrostLiquid1|bifrostLiquidContainer1 ;