Make sure to watch my updated tutorial that makes this process even easier! kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=rM5IsBOTFpry7djd

This is a great video! Very in depth. Also, for anyone who may not know. For ease of access if you right click on an input node and promote to parameter it will automatically name the scalar parameter.

Bookmark this video! VDB support is a BIG DEAL! ;) Thibault is the master mind behind it all, seriously talented (and brilliant) artist! Thank you both so much for putting in the time to share this with the community🙏

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@logikal3d

Жыл бұрын

This is going to be a game changer

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

@@logikal3d 100% 🤙🏾💯

Really appreciate the effort you put into this tutorial man. It was very helpful.

@JonathanWinbush

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏿 Be sure to check out my follow up tutorial I made it easier to drag and drop the material so you don't have to make it from scratch anymore

Follow these amazing Artist that helped me out twitter.com/LambertTibo twitter.com/HollowsWoodsman VDB Material blueprintue.com/blueprint/94qjsm5v/ Other Tutorials: Cinema 4D Pyro + Unreal Engine 5 = Amazing! kzread.info/dash/bejne/a31mu6qFp7OpoKw.htmlsi=0kNNJ-c5fLhn1Kuf Learn How to Render VDB Sequences in Unreal Engine 5.3 kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGqOpNeNeKXRZJc.htmlsi=fvS0LLAFgiRvdVsO

Thanks for the work in sourcing all this! For anyone concerned with the dark black shadows in the volumes for things like clouds, I found that plugging in a new colour parameter to control emissive color (multiplied by the Density) seemed like a good workaround for me.

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip! 🤙🏿

thanks for taking the time to go through the material details, I followed along and it worked 1st time 👏 you rock 🤘

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Thanks brother! Great hanging out too 🤙🏾

I love this video. Thank you so much. A perfect walkthrough and I like the speed you move through your nodes at.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Thanks man I know it's alot of nodes so wanted to make sure I didn't just speed through it 🤙🏾

thank you for the good walktrough, and for taking you time with this explaining. Works like a charm!!!

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! I recently did an updated tutorial that makes it even easier! kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=rM5IsBOTFpry7djd

Thx for the clear instructions, especially in the blueprint segment of the video. Please keep it up.

@JonathanWinbush

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely, glad I was able to help! 🤙🏾

This is really cool. I used the OpenVDB plug-in with UE 5.1 a while back to get some custom cloud formations for the Volumetric Clouds object out of a smoke sim I did in Blender, but this is definitely easier. I wonder how hard it'd be to use the velocity property of the vdb to build a flowmap instead of using an animated VDB. Also a couple tips: You can hold down 's' on the keyboard and click in the material graph to create a scalar parameter instead of right-clicking and searching (you can also hold down '1' and click to make a Float Constant and then right-click and select 'Convert to Scalar Parameter'). You can override the Sparse Volume Texture in the material instance instead of duplicating the base material and changing it there and making another material instance.

Awesome work, bro! Thanks for the share. This looks sick 🔥

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely man and yes it's the real deal!

Thank you and your Frends so much for this Video! Hope i will can understand this node tree some day. For now i will just follow step by step. Very much thank you all ! 🙏

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Yea honestly I don't understand most of it I was only able to get like 45% there so thank goodness for Thibault!

Good stuff Winbush!

@JonathanWinbush

Ай бұрын

Thanks bro 🤙🏿

so dope!!! thanks for making this, can't wait to give it a try.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

No problem at all and have fun! 🤙🏿

Awesome help and tutorial...the channel that keeps on giving. Cheers for all your help.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

No worries and thanks! 🤙🏿

Thank you so much for your generous sharing of knowledge and expertise! You are an amazing teacher, and I so appreciate your selfless acts of empowering the rest of us, such as in this most informative video! It was just awesome, and I can't wait to feel like I actually know what I'm doing with VDBs in Unreal Engine. (I'm more than a little behind on this.) You're best!

@JonathanWinbush

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much I actually most recently put up a video to make this process waaaay more easier be sure to check that out! kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=2ZJWczAuj576zlr4

Niceeeeee!! Was waiting for this :))

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

Hope you dig it! 🤙🏿

Dude AMAZIING!

@JonathanWinbush

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Be sure to watch my latest tutorial it's even easier now kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=RxmEUIMSbK8xcO2y

wow. my head is still spinning !!! but the result is awesome.. i hope that the result is convincing when 2 or more VDB are in proximity. Thank you J.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Yea I'm hoping Epic makes an easier solution I was thinking it would be plug n play but of course not lol

For anyone wanting to use an animated VDB like an explosion or a campfire in the sequencer, you'll have to first drag the Heterogeneous Volume from your outline into your sequencer. After this, press the plus button or "Track" button and a drop down menu should appear. Under "compenents", select "HeterogeneousVolumeCompenent". From here, press the plus button again and under "Animation" in the drop down menu, add the "Frame" option. With this now added, you can key frame when you want your VDB's to start and finish their animation.

@JonathanWinbush

7 ай бұрын

I already did a tutorial on this process kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGqOpNeNeKXRZJc.htmlsi=Xe0NlRTk2jcwuqeL

@kylemcneill5751

7 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush oh sweet, didn’t see that. Thanks for making great tutorials as always!

@JonathanWinbush

7 ай бұрын

@@kylemcneill5751 no problem at all brother I know for me I'm more of a visual learner so helps when seeing stuff in motion but definately thanks for supporting and putting it out there for those that want just a quick reference 🤙🏿

@Raitan2008

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Thanks you very much! During the material stuff, I was "Wtf is this an escape game or something?" but everything make sens now.

@JonathanWinbush

2 ай бұрын

😁😁

Awesome! Can't wait to try this out!

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

It's a game changer for sure

My god that is insane! Blender chugs like heck when I use VDBs. I have a pretty darn good machine too. With character skeletons now compatible in Unreal, I may need to switch over there for rendering permanently.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I have a few friends that use blender and unreal together and make some amazing stuff

Thumbs up for your dedication, brother. I knew you would make a video about this.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Much appreciated you know I was on it once I saw the road map 🤙🏿

Thank you. I'm new to UE and this is awesome!

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

Have you checked out my unreal engine 5 in 5 days course of my channel? It's free

Thank you for great tutorial! I have just one quicktip for you :) Insted of making scalar parameter (S+LMB) you can just right click on small input circle (pin) and promote to parameter. It will create Scalar Parameter already named by the name of pin value type.

this is really well explained ,thank you

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely you are welcome 🤙🏿

Also new UEFN tutorial tomorrow!

@faradaysinfinity

11 ай бұрын

Yeaaah buddy

@UnboxingWinbush

11 ай бұрын

@@faradaysinfinity 😎

Great video. After trying VDBs in previous versions with plugin hacks it's great that it's being fully supported by Epic. Giving it a go right now!

@JonathanWinbush

9 ай бұрын

Thanks buddy, I recently made it so that you don't have to build the VDB from scratch either you can just copy and past the material from here blueprintue.com/blueprint/94qjsm5v/

Excellent guide, thank you

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

No problem at all 🤙🏿

You are awesome.. thanks so much for this tutorial..😊

@JonathanWinbush

2 ай бұрын

Thanks! Be sure to watch my latest tutorial it's even easier now kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=RxmEUIMSbK8xcO2y

4:24 super minor hotkey shortcut, instead of 3 and covert to parameter you can just V+ left click and it will be the parameter version

Amazing! Did you notice any flickering? Thoughts on how to reduce that?

@derekheisler2058

11 ай бұрын

Actualy I think that was just AA causing that in the viewport. But I am seeing a grid throughout the animation which is bizarre.

NOW! this is a real gamechanger! I just wished the import worked better since its annoying to have to restore the volume to its original shape by scaling it by hand

This is mind blowing, thank you so much for gathering this info together and working with the community. I can see this being great for static vdb,s especially for space nebula scenes. As for animated, it seems like the material flickers near the end, I wonder if it’s a frame rate issue. Maybe if unreal engines fps was locked to 24 or 30 would it not flicker anymore. Will it flicker if rendered in a level sequencer? What do you think?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I put this together quick so I didn't think to see what framerate the vdb was created in so that might make a difference as well. By default its set to 24fps in UE but I'm not sure what the actual vdb from embergen was created in. I'll def be doing more test

@HandsomeDragon

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush I’ll be right behind you with those tests. If I discover anything I’ll comment here and let you know. Thanks for paying it forward!

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

@@HandsomeDragon absolutely thanks man!

Cool features and great video. Thank you for the walk through. Unfortunately It don't seem to cast shadows for now, like the plugin limitation or may be I'm wrong.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

It's in phase 1 I'm sure more updates are coming

Thank you!

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely 🤙🏿

Dope, thank you for making this........much appreciated.....GO STEELERS!!!

@JonathanWinbush

4 ай бұрын

Steel City all day! But please make sure to check out my more up to date tutorial which makes the process awhole lot easier! kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=ekfLuv2cjXyGo2NN

Ah, this is amazing. Thank you, Winbush! Do you know any option how to: 1. Have a motion blur for the VDBs on rendering? 2. Have shadows from the volume?

@JonathanWinbush

8 ай бұрын

As of now you can only get shadows when using the path tracer I have a tutorial on that too as well

nice overview on this VBD feature, just asking, is there a reason to duplicate the parent material and not just making a second instance for the explosion? i will definitely test on this when Epic release the stable.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Yup because when I tried to swap the vdb in the instance it didn't take for some reason so I had to do it this way. I'm sure this will be fixed in an update

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Thanks brother 🤙🏾

Hi Winbush thanks for making this, I noticed that the blackbody paramater doesnt really update anything, even on your screen, Only density works. Am I missing something? Also is the idea then to create a material instance for each cloud you want to use? Thanks

@killianpichon9634

10 ай бұрын

You can add a linear light or a rig of lights or do a 3 point lights. Copy paste the blueprint code for full control if you search on google ''Basic SVT Material in 5.3 preview (thanks to Thibault Lambert!)'' . Link the nodes to the material as shown in the video. Then play with the density, absorption and scattering parameters.

Anybody got any idea how we can make the VDBs get affected by the Skylight? currently seems to only get lit by direct lightsources like directional or pointlights?

Thank you so much for explaining this. I am trying to render snow from Houdini into UE 5 but mine does not animate, Would you happen to know a solution to this ? My snow is a vdb file.

Thanks for the tut 😊😊Any idea how we could trigger the VDB animation in sequencer ?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I will have to try that and path tracing out next

@andyxor

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush I tried pathtracing without luck so far! No VDB in the render at all

谢谢老师！

@JonathanWinbush

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Be sure to check out my more recent video about it too kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=3x9q6FTLxqwD_h-k

🙏awesome !

Very cool explanation! Is it scene light interactive and pathtracer possible?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I haven't tested yet but in the road map they did show path tracer as being compatible portal.productboard.com/epicgames/1-unreal-engine-public-roadmap/c/1156-path-tracer

@Unknowable_Void

11 ай бұрын

You can use them in pathtracer with console command for now: r.Pathtracing.HeterogeneousVolumes 1

The VDB master. Thanks a lot.

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

Couldn't have done it alone I have thoes people I mentioned to thank 🙏🏿

Thanks Sir!

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely 🤙🏿

Hi! It worked but when I move away from the cloud for a certain distance it disappears, how can I fix this?

Awesome fallow along video, but a question I have is how far along are we from having real-time volumetrics where the player can move through it and impart velocity on the cloud particles ? Like we have our VBD textures as a template but make them react if something moves through them.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

You'd probably have to set that up in the program you created the VDB in so like if your using embergen you can have all your collisions there then export. Think of the vdb as a image sequence.

@starvosxant4348

11 ай бұрын

I understand your point. But unfortunatly no. We are not there yet. We hardly can do this with fluids, imagine with gases. We are getting real-time things in Unreal Engine now. Although there are genious around there like AK with his plugin "Fluidninja Live" that can do this for you and achieve what you want, real-time smoke and fluid simulations. I dont know why Epic dont make it part of their Engine...

@VladMihailescu

11 ай бұрын

@@starvosxant4348 yup, I've seen fluidninja and it’s insane

Thanks Winbush! Do these react with lights now in 5.3? The big problem with VDBs before in UE5.2 is they would not be affected by point or rect lights, only the main directional light, which made them still unrealistic in UE compared to things like Octane.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I haven't tested it yet but have seen others using them with lights yea

@TheValecto

11 ай бұрын

5.3 added support for local lightsources like pointlights etc, still lacking skylight or oder indirect light though as far as I could tell

Great news - thank you.

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

No worries 🤙🏿

Finally getting to test this but hit a wall. Around 2:00 you get the "Sparse Volume Texture Viewer", but it does't show up when I do the same search. Maybe I started off the wrong project type -Blank Video Production-?? Feeling like I'm missing something basic. Thanks in advance!

@JonathanWinbush

8 ай бұрын

No problem I actually did a shorts answering just this question kzread.infoHX5WBMhn9KI?si=KlU65oLgz_5Zp3-2

@matiasguisado3714

8 ай бұрын

Ouch! Thanks man @@JonathanWinbush

Do these work correctly (by occluding) transparent geometry rendered inside or behind it?

Is there a way to run the anim via Seuqeuncer? Right now I can only get it to loop

Hmmm, my material of all that just shows up as a big thick vdb box, like a box of pure fog, instead of any discernible shape. I've found that not all VDBs are equal - one I'm testing is out of Blender, but ones out of Embergen and Houdini all act completely different. Any tips on if I can't get anything coherent to show up? Kind of weird to troubleshoot did node exactly as you've got it laid out, its just my VDBs that are atypical.

@AapoSomerpalo

5 ай бұрын

I had the same problem. Make sure when importing you have Smoke in the drop down menu of Attribute A > R. If you dont find smoke option there make sure you simulated it. In Max PhoenixFD you can check Grid Smoke in output. I hope this helps

Hi thank yout for cool tutoriasl.. after applying material to HVolume it's blank though... any idea why? Do I need to install some plugin or so?

@JonathanWinbush

6 ай бұрын

Shouldnt need a plugin in fact here is a easier way to set it up now kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=pIJPqUQX02Mpt3dE I dont think you can put materials on it outside of what the volume has set for it. What kind of materials are you trying to place on it?

Thanks for your video, i was wondering it there a way to put it in level sequencer and run it like with the plugin from before?

@JonathanWinbush

8 ай бұрын

Yup I did a tutorial on how to use it in the sequencer as well 🤙🏾

@Giorgio--

8 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush already found it, thanks you

Can you make it appear in a specific frame? for example at frame 30?

@JonathanWinbush

8 ай бұрын

yea I did a tutorial as well on how to animate it using the sequencer

Awesome🎉

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🤗

thank you!!😎✌

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

You're welcome 🤙🏾

Thank You

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome 🤙🏿

how to control the timing, the explosion has to be played back all the time?

how to get rid of the grid at the beginning of the animation?

Why the simple cloud is stacked to be grey in color? When I scatter on white becomes grey, when scatter is green it goes green. Is like I can not get it to white cloud.. Any tip?

There are two KZread channels where I hate myself for having my volume muted at the start of a video. Doug DeMuro: "THIS..." Winbush: "What up, what up..." Keep doing what you do! Your videos are so great. I appreciate all the knowledge bombs you share with us.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Haha appreciate you brother! Now I gotta look up Doug I'm not familar with that channel

@Bashyb

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Doug is like the uncle of the youtube car community he's great haha

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

@@Bashyb Yup I looked him up pretty solid channel looks like he's been at it awhile too

What did you use to author the VDB. Looks like when making one from blender that the attributes are different for both A and B which will probably change how the material is made. Although the Sparse Volume Viewer had no issue showing it, but the material made here doesn't not show anything.

@JonathanWinbush

9 ай бұрын

I did another one the other day that may help I showed how I made the VDB in Cinema 4d and Brought it into Unreal kzread.info/dash/bejne/a31mu6qFp7OpoKw.htmlsi=sLh-rgLIeYMTHhQN I also made it easier to make the material so you don't have to make it from scratch each time kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKF4w9SpdrOYnLA.htmlsi=uxrSQlMR60J9hAi5

Would you be able to explain the 8, 16, 32 bit options? Even if you don't know the specifics, do you know which one is better quality? Also, I seem be getting some flame that "licks" the top of the "bounding box" around the VDB. I don't see that happening in EmberGen when I am making the simulation.

@JonathanWinbush

9 ай бұрын

I dont understand the full science behind it honestly but I bet Jason at Embergen would be able to break it down more eloquently as he's in this stuff all day. twitter.com/key_vfx

@MADMOVIESINC

9 ай бұрын

Thanks again!@@JonathanWinbush

Great video - as always - I was wndering if anyone else is having difficulty locating the Sparse Volume Texture Viewer? I know I have done everything properly, however I am not able to see it. I know this is a step that is not necessary for the final result, however I am curious why it is not showing up.

@FabriXor87

9 ай бұрын

I can see it if I type "Sparse Volume Texture Viewer" in the place actors tab

Is there a way to save materials in a custom library like Asset Browser in Blender?

@JonathanWinbush

3 ай бұрын

I think so but I'd have to check how

@AlexisRivera3D

3 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush thank you

Are they performant enough to use in games? How much more performant are they vs using the old vdb plugin?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Yea Dylan has been testing them out in his game twitter.com/DylserX/status/1685096224150654976

Thank you for making this detailed tutorial. Is Niagara fluid sim better than VDBs? Thanks.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

It would depend on the situation. Niagara fluids would be a lot more interactive in your scene think of VDB as more of a movie or sequence so theres not changing it at all once inside Unreal

@LFA_GM

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Thanks for the answer, I'll take a look at Open VDB and test it out.

Hello, incredible information. A question, how can I add this to an animation sequence?

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

Yup I do have a tutorial on that as well 🤙🏾

@gregoriocarreno

5 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Thank you very much this helps me a lot

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

@@gregoriocarreno absolutely no problem at all 🤙🏿🤙🏿

Has anyone found a way to have them cast shadows, along with receive bounce light/lumen bounce?

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

Only works with path tracing right now

Hey winbush thank you for this amazing tutorial. As we know 5.3 is officially released and path tracer supports heterogenous textures can you please make a tutorial how to remder VDbs usimg movie render queue with path tracer again thak you for the amazing tutorials

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

I've been traveling around Korea and Chicago so when I get back I'll check it out!

Loved this tutorial I just had one question unrelated to VDB Is there a way in wich i can render alpha with panoramic render in UE5

@andyxor

11 ай бұрын

You could render the scene just black & white(self illum) as a quick solution.

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I'm not sure I kind of gave up on 360 renders in UE for now as theres no real documentation and it's been hit n miss for me if it works

I noticed that when you scaled in on the VDB, you had a flicker on the animation at the time of playback, as if there were not enough frames, I have the same problem and I do not know how to fix it, do you have any ideas how to fix it?

@JonathanWinbush

9 ай бұрын

I think the flicker was because of the viewport. If you see my renders in other videos I dont have any flickers when I render

I was able to get my animated VDBs looking great in engine. But right now they just loop, is there a way to control the animation via sequencer?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I will work on a tutorial for that soon

i had to divide extents in half and multipy min by 2 for it to tile correctly

@JonathanWinbush

7 ай бұрын

Actually there's an easier way now no setup needed kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=F0riO5P1FdbytT8A

Thank you

@JonathanWinbush

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🤙🏾

Hi Winbush, thanks for this tutorial, i followed everything but on my sparse volume texture parameter its still in error. in my stats, it says missing input texture. Can you please help.

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

I have a more up to date and easier tutorial here kzread.info/dash/bejne/c2eV17WMe7KnlNo.htmlsi=Z_83Ron39UgkW5tO

could VDB effects be interactive like in niagara? like running trough fog? thanks!

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

It can't think of it like an image sequence

Hi! I'm tottaly new to UE, sorry for stupid questions) But "sparse volume texture viewer" doesn't show up Do I have to preinstall that script or something?)

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

Was easier to show but here you are kzread.infoHX5WBMhn9KI?si=ykg4agQekklZWbMm

hey does this cast shadow? for me its not casting any shadows and sometimes not receiving skylight as well any solutions?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Dylan here has been putting it into his games with success twitter.com/DylserX/status/1685099914634895360

Great video man ! Get anybody crash after run pathtracer with VDB ? thank you in advance !

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I personally havent had a chance to try Path tracing next but I will once I get a free minute 💪🏿🤙🏿

But what if your VDB actually has color channel information.. How could you work around that?

Pretty easy to anyone used to build materials with nodes. I'd like to understand the logic of the Object Local Bounds node, though.

Whea are the projected Shadows????? in sparce volumetrics I culdn´t get them either

@JonathanWinbush

6 ай бұрын

Gotta read the documents to see what is and isn't in this release there's still more to come in 5.4

Have anyone tried importing VDB's from Houdini to UE 5.3? Having issues that when importing the VDB's it disappears from the project, when i change folder from one to another - Another issue is that it can't be put into the "Sparse Volume Texture Preview"

@dadvfx

10 ай бұрын

make sure you export with _$F4.vdb and not .$F4 .vdb

@Chunkies32

10 ай бұрын

Yes thank you we noticed that aswell! Should pin this tho - it gave me alot of headaches@@dadvfx

hi guys, i tried to drop and drag a VDB from jangafx and it comes up with a failed to import message. It wont even open the openvdb box. any idea why? im on a mac

@JonathanWinbush

7 ай бұрын

You'd have to check if vdbs are supported on Mac I'm not sure myself

Has anyone found a solution for vdb culling in distance, when all other objects dont, is there a vdb setting I am not seeing? geo is fine, other volumes fine, but the vdbs disappear in the far distance.

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

You can try the camera setting here docs.unrealengine.com/5.2/en-US/visibility-and-occlusion-culling-in-unreal-engine/

@raysena8679

10 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Thanks for the info and quick reply!

Can the VDB cast shadows on opjects ? I mean like clouds and stuff ?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I don't think as of now but I'm sure it'll be coming as it's only in alpha stage

What's the go-to software these days for making VDBs for gases?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

I'd say Embergen is probably top but I haven't tried Cinema 4D yet might have to see what it can do

@starvosxant4348

11 ай бұрын

​@@JonathanWinbushcan you suggest me a cheaper option? 😂😂 Or free also im accepting. Blender can be used to create VDBs?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

@starvosxant4348 most 3d applications can make them now I believe

Cluld you make an updated tutorial for 5.1 or 5.2 with path tracing render setting?

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

it's a 5.3 feature

@parthchotaliya3468

10 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush thanks man!

@JonathanWinbush

10 ай бұрын

@parthchotaliya3468 No worries. Now that im back I do plan on doing a path tracing tutorial though so stay tuned 🤙🏾

@parthchotaliya3468

10 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush yes sure will do. Thank you for informing!

Hi! Is there a way to render the shadows of vdb while its hidden? It doesnt seem to work for me, I hope Im just too dumb to figure out, though I guess its a limititation... Thx for the answer

@JonathanWinbush

5 ай бұрын

Shadows only work with the path tracer right now

@krisztianszilardkristofole9715

5 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush yea sure, I know and I can render it (thanks to you:)), but what I mean is that I would like to render the shadows casted by the heterogenous volume while its hidden. I dont want to render the volume, just its shadows, I hope its more understandable. :)

Hey Winbush, this is awesome thanks! Any tips on where I can find free VBD's?

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

Yup embergen actually has a bunch of free vdbs you can use that's what I'm using here currently

@jbmocean399

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush Great! thanks

@JonathanWinbush

11 ай бұрын

@@jbmocean399 found the link jangafx.com/software/embergen/download/free-vdb-animations/

@jbmocean399

11 ай бұрын

@@JonathanWinbush You're a legend, thanks again man!

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