chopping up Phoenix smoke grids

[harvr]

Hi
is there a way to "chop up" a large phoenix smoke grid into smaller grids?

essentially I'm working on cloudscapes, I have a large cloudscape, but it would be nice to take a "chunk" of that cloudscape and have it as a smaller separate grid which i can place where i want

is it possible, i can use vray distTex to achieve/mask the area I want it, but it would be nice to have smaller manageable chunks

regards

Harv

[georgi.zhekov]

Hey,

The distance texture is one way of doing it.

The other way would be to use the render cutter option. It allows you to render the volume inside of the bounds of another geometry or outside of it.
You can find more about the cutters here - https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...ing-Parameters

[harvr]

Thanks Georgi

I knew that way too, just wanted to know if we could actually "cut out" part of sim into new container, to make things more manageable

thanks

Harv