Aquarius Lite is lite version of OpenVDB meshing / volume / particles edit and smoke/fire/liquid and MPM simulation plugin for 3dsmax 2018 – 2025
This plugin can use all nodes and helper objects of Aquarius 1.0. But it has some limitation.
Comparison
| Aquarius 1.2 Lite | Aquarius 1.2 | |
| Node Based Control UI | Yes | Yes |
| OpenVDB and General Nodes | Yes | Yes |
| GRID Simulation | Limited 100 frame limit No resume simulation No Cuda GPU support | Yes |
| FLIP Simulation | Limited 100 frame limit No resume simulation No Cuda GPU support | Yes |
| MPM Simulation | Limited 100 frame limit No resume simulation No Cuda GPU support | Yes |
| Support Helper Objects | Yes | Yes |
| VDB import | Yes | Yes |
| VDB export | Yes | Yes |
| PRT import | Yes | Yes |
| PRT export | Yes | Yes |
| Alembic export | Yes | Yes |
| Network Simulation/export | No | Yes |
