Particles in VDB

[jop]

Hi,

while in VDB mode, Phoenix is able to export particles along fields. I guess it's some sort of hack.
Is is possible to carry particles when importing sim from houdini too ?

Thanks

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

not a hack really, VDBs support particles for a few years now, but they are surprisingly unpopular still.

Please send over a VDB cache with all the possible particle attributes you can plug into it - ages, velocities, ids, sizes, etc, and we'll make sure it opens correctly.

Cheers!

[jop]

houdini seems to output only volumes in vdb

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey, Gosho.Genchev , do you know a way?

[jop]

ok I found the way to export from houdini :
Convert VDB Points SOP

[jop]

it works! got particles back to Phoenix !

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Woohoo! So if you have issues with any of the channels above, please ping me

[jop]

It works flawlessly, I named the points as "Liquid" in order to smooth the meshing using particles, perfect!
Thanks!