Came for the tutorial, stayed for the humor. Even after a few UI changes to Octane and xParticles, this was still very easy to follow.

Went through so many tutorials until I found this one!!! Exactly what I needed to know about the x particles to octane workflow. Thanks

The cache part is my fav lol Thank you! It was hard finding a video that didn't use cycles!

Very needed tutorial. From what I have found at least, there is no tutorial that really shows you the full process of the xpExplosiafx to octane workflow, with the final result. As others have said, very easy to follow, simple tutorial. Thank you very much for sharing this with us, keep them coming :)

Thanks you for creating very helpful, straight to the point tutorial, I've achieved awesome results thanks to it!

Super cool, man, really helped me in a job, specially the shading and rendering part, cheers!

I learned so much from this tutorial. Especially how much I sucked at making an explosion. Thanks for a great video!!!

@christopherfranklin4889

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!!

This just helped me accomplish a scene under an hour. Thank you so much!!!

great tut! very simple and logic! thanks

Fantastic! I've been looking for an Octane / Explosia tutorial, thanks dude!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it.

thank you, this is what is needed. do more tutorials.

Great tutorial! Thanks dude!

Great video. Thanks!

Great tutorial! Please do more!

learned so much from you. thank you.

Thanks a lot David, you are a life saver man! I have been searching for a while how to solve that problem showing xp smoke & fire in Octane! Can you make another one for xp foam into Octane?..thanks man

Thanks David ! you're awesome

Thanks! It was really helpful!!!!

Very Good, a learning experience

Great tutorial, would love to see some more on basically any other cool stuff you know in x-particles 4!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I'm still playing around. There's a lot to learn, but if I come up with some good techniques, I'll try to share.

@jamesclark872

6 жыл бұрын

Can't wait! Any Redshift-based tutorials would also be great!

that was so so so useful!!!! thanks a lot!!!!

Great one, David! Dig the subtle irony thoughout hehe, keep it up!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's nice to see someone appreciates my sense of humor. :)

really nice! Thank you for sharing!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Really appreciated your tutorial and your jokes. I legit laughed out loud when you said "18.37502" at 17:52.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad to know I made someone laugh.

Brilliant Video. Very well done and funny too. Also I love Johnny Cash

终于找到了正确的使用方法 感谢你

Nice tutorial david. keep it up

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks man!!

If anybody has learned a lot from this, I would love it if more people could make more videos on X particles/explosion/octane, this is like one of only two vids on the net :(

Nice! thanks for sharing

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks for the great tutorial. I have one problem, when I open vdb in Octane Vdb Volume it's in a different position. Anyone know how to fix it?

great job

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks for the tut. I'm still finding that my smoke doesn't have enough detail. Still liiks soft almost out of focus. What do I need to adjust to try and get some more detail in it for close ups?

What do we want? More videos! When do want them? At a reasonable time that is convenient to the author!

This was great! More please! If you didn't have octane and just wanted to use physical render, what would the setup be?

@tonyboutwell2544

6 жыл бұрын

Same here - need to see how to do it using the internal render engine instead a 3rd party render engine.

Hi! I followed exactly what you said in the tutorial but when import the vdb in octane the emission and fog is swapped so the fire is where the smoke is and the smoke is where the fire is.

Hi david can you please make short tutorial based on x-particles I am looking for jet fire effects

do it! make more :) thanks, very well done!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Definitely planning to make more tutorials, but life got real busy right after I launched this. Isn't that how it always goes…

Thank you! I come from TFD which is more limited compared to xplosia - even if it works with x particles, using this inside xp 4 is much better! You're very good at explaining, do more of these!

Really helpful tutorial....but why does it look like the smoke is going to the right in the viewport....but its moving to the left in the Octane render view?

awesome, thank you David , I was just wondering how does volume rendering work with explosia .looks pretty similar to Houdini worflow.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks! In theory, this should work the same with Houdini. I've actually just started playing with Houdini, so I guess I'll find out soon enough. :)

Super informative, thanks man! (Also its pronounced vor-TI-city)

Hi David, when you run the entire simulation because of gradient it start with smoke instead of fire. What do you suggest ? to set a key frame on gradient or something else? Thank you

Anyone figure out how to do this when not set to 0 axis? I tried to create two smoke boxes either side of a stage and doesn't register the source position.

Can you not save the vdb externally on the demo? My option is greyed out.

Very nice tutorial, David, and thank you. One suggestion: if you could say the name of the thing you are adjusting more often, not just "over hear," or "this one." For instance, "Maybe we can set Max Value to 0.5," can be a lot easier to follow along with than, "Maybe we can set this to 0,5." It's just a little thing, but it can save an awful lot of pausing and scrolling back and leaning in to see exactly what you are doing on the other monitor. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic advice and very much appreciated. I'll endeavor to do this in the future. Thanks!

Does this work with fire too? i followed all the steps, no errors in the Import section as well but OCtane doesnt seem to read the VDBs though!

great tut.may I ask what camera and lens did you use for the first 25 seconds?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

That would be the Sony A7RII and the 28mm f2 lens, I believe.

Do you have a version that shows how to do this just using the standard cinema 4d render engine?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

I don't, sorry. I haven't used that renderer much at all.

can't see anytihing if i move the emiter

xpCache creates emty folder when i try cache VDB, but if i turn format back to x-particles everything fine, it creates XPEFX files. No way only I have that problem((

I never stop being astonished by how multi-talented Ed Sheeran is!

@taurus6392

3 жыл бұрын

LOL 😂

HI! great tutorial, congrats! one question...how did you get Octane to work in an apple machine?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I had a 2009 Mac Pro with Nvidia graphics. That worked up until a few years ago and now I can only run Octane on Windows (or macOS High Sierra, which I don't have). But OTOY is very close to releasing a version that will run with AMD graphics on Mac. There’s a thread in the octane render official forums general discussion area if you're interested in learning more.

@germanmairen

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo I hope they are! thanks a lot for your response

I'd like to see an example used in a scene, where the positions of components were moved around and how centering the components is SUPPOSED to work.Each time I resize I get poor results, moving components results is changing the .. I guess, world locations and the plug becomes difficult to work with..to say: it seem the best way in a workflow is to build the particle systems, then build everything else in a scene around the plug results secondly... sort of a clumsy work flow, using the plug results 'size' and location' to determine .objs used through the entire scene.The basic Xparticle and C4d and octane does do a very nice job as a standalone kept in a simple scene as shown.. but sure isn't all that, for me anyway, when using motion for the plug results in a total scene.

My vdb lands in a weird place. Not where I made it

also the emission effects the entire vdb including the smoke thats not supposed to be emitted

This is beautiful however i have one question, is it possible to render this in the standard c4d render engine?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Unfortunately, I'm not actually sure. And if it does work, it may depend on the version of C4D you’re using. I’d check the X-Particles documentation for rendering smoke-and if that doesn’t help, I’d search to see if there are tutorials for rendering VDB files in the standard C4D renderer.

@BioSoftStudios

4 жыл бұрын

David Mikucki i did attempt to try it, unfortunately the render result is crap and i need advice on how to crank things up to make it more beautiful Please check your twitter, i sent you my render result

Nice tutorial, thank you. But i have the problem, that i get an error message in the Octane Log which says: Unsupported VDB file format (expected version 223 or earlier, got version 224) And the VDB isnt rendering in the live viewer. I searched 3 hours for a solution now, but nothing was found. Do you have a clue what my problem is? Even with your sample scene i have this issue.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I don't know. It sounds like X-particles updated what version of OpenVDB they're exporting as and Octane doesn't support it. You might try making sure that you have the latest version of Octane, then posting on either the Octane or X-Particles forums. I've moved to largely using Blender lately, so I can't really test this for you. Sorry.

this tutorail pretty good！

Make more videos!

Hello fellow human being! Could you show us how to get a velocity field going for a cannon explosion?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

If I'm being honest, you're pretty much talking over my head, haha. This would be an interesting experiment, but I'm not sure how I'd even start working on it.

@Marienkarpfen

6 жыл бұрын

All good, spamming a user on the maya discord server who played with this streamable.com/08qh5 #freeadvertisement xD Meanwhilst I struggle UV'ing a barrel.. :D

Same process for Arnold? Thanks

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don't own Arnold. I did just do a tutorial for Redshift, if that's helpful at all (probably not, but I figured I'd mention it).

I tested it yesterday,but When the VDB sequence was import, octance crashes.Is it so small in my Graphics Aperture Size? My card is QUADRO1000M.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

That card only has 2GB of RAM, so I suppose that could be it. But I'm really not sure. Octane can be kind of funny about the starting and ending frames, iirc. So you might make sure those are right. Otherwise you may find more help by contacting OTOY.

@joinli8138

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo Thanks a lot!!!

Vdb in Octane 2020.1.2 is broken... Use 2020.1-R7

First tutorial, and I'm pretty aware how awkward I was in front of the camera (much more used to being behind it). Besides that, how can I make better tutorials, and what things might you like to see future tutorials be about?

@carlbjorndal8012

6 жыл бұрын

David Mikucki I liked your tutorial, clear and explaining in a relaxed manner.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Your feedback means a lot.

@deepbluezen4751

6 жыл бұрын

Great for a first tutorial! Pacing was good, settings could be clearly seen, really struggling to pick on something I'd change. Can't see the link to the example file you mentioned though?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comments. It looks like the latest bug fix from X-Particles should fix this, though I haven't been able to try it. And thanks for pointing out the missing link. I was wondering why no one had downloaded it! Haha Here is the link (also in the description now): geni.us/ExplosiaC4D

@deepbluezen4751

6 жыл бұрын

No worries, thanks for taking the time to put this out there, really handy for a hobby dev like me :) I did update XP4 before following through your tutorial so looks like the bug is still present in 4.0.0.535.

David, quick question for you If I may, Explosia Fx with Octane or Turbulance Fd with Octane? Which is better? cheers, H

@ThatLooksNiceCo

4 жыл бұрын

TheHowardski it really depends. Turbulence FD is great. Easy to get started with and it can also get really advanced. Plus GPU acceleration. ExplosiaFX is great if you already have and know Xparticles, plus it will integrate with your XP systems in ways TFD can’t.

@TheHowardski

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo Thanks for that David. I will have to give it some thought! I just heard things about Octane not working propery with Explosia, not rendering the Fire and smoke properly....Have you found that?

Nice tutorial, I noticed that the simulation when rendered in octane is mirrored, so I tried for my self, and saw that I also got that... anyone else seen this?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

It seemed to occur early on but then be resolved once I created a camera and switched to it-by the end there is no mirroring. I'm gonna play around more with it this week.

@deepbluezen4751

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I see the same thing, was rotating round thinking somethings off and then oh the smoke column is leaning in the opposite direction :)

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Looks like the latest version is officially supposed to fix this issue (had something to do with voxel normals… TIL voxels have normals). Definitely file a bug if it isn't fixed for you after updating.

I really wander how can you use octane in a mac platform

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I'm using an eGPU, it's basically a box that I can put an Nvidia graphics card in and plug into my Mac via Thunderbolt 3. This link includes all the hardware I use: kit.com/davidmikucki/mac-production-kit

@baoyuj5585

6 жыл бұрын

That's cool! I have heard from some people who own a eGPU that via this method we lose certain compute efficiency, isn't it?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

6 жыл бұрын

The GPU runs just as fast externally as it does internally. But transferring data to the GPU for it to compute can be slower. I believe it's around 80-90% as fast as a PCI-E 3.0 8x connection, though, so it's definitely not too bad. And it really only has an effect when you're transferring scene data to the card. Once it's actually rendering, assuming you're not having to use out-of-core memory, it runs basically as fast as an internal card.

Curious as to what your mac setup is?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

I was using a maxed out 2017 15 inch MacBook Pro with an eGPU. But I've since had to switch to a homemade Windows machine because of poor support for Nvidia eGPUs in High Sierra and no support for Nvidia at all in Mojave. :/

@Alekazamy

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo ah yeah I was curious. I made the switch to PC a few years ago and love it. Didnt realize people were still using Octane on Mac!

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

@@Alekazamy Yeah. It's rough out there. But Octane is talking about having a version that uses Metal (Apple's CUDA competitor that runs on AMD/Intel/their own custom GPUs). When that happens, I think I'd jump back to MacOS in a heartbeat.

@Alekazamy

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo I loved iOS growing up, but now with windows 10, everything seems to work quite nicely and the UI is much more beautiful. Plus there's so many other programs and plugins I love that don't exist on Mac.

Just download Fusion 9 by Black Magic, it will save you a lot of time, effort and money...or just use Blender.

do you mind responding to comments please ?

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

Just replied to your thread. Sorry I don't have more for you.

Am i the only one who is seeing it flipped ?? The render and viewport is not matching..

@ParadigmCuts

5 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem! Do you find the solution how to fix it?

@SagunManandhar

5 жыл бұрын

@@ParadigmCuts nope. haven't got time to check it out yet.

@ThatLooksNiceCo

5 жыл бұрын

@@SagunManandharSorry guys, I'm actually not sure why it would be flipping. I thought this was a bug that got resolved a few updates ago, and I'm not actually able to test it now. Your best bet is probably to contact Insydium support. I hear they're very responsive.

@SagunManandhar

5 жыл бұрын

@@ThatLooksNiceCo Thanks !

you didn´t even explain how to search in the screen

@gareth_3d

5 жыл бұрын

Shift+c

@Just-A-Clown111

5 жыл бұрын

@@gareth_3d thanks

lol, jj abrams...

C4d Octane and Xparticles make some of the poorest quality 'flames;, very smeared, soft, blurred... not bad for making nebulas or fluffy clouds though. You might wish to take a scene production with the highest definitions possible in a flame instead of posting to a very poor starting point.