Phoenix with VDB works great. How about Houdini engine? (Maya)

[mikeRhone]

Hey guys, we're rendering VDB's via Phoenix with great success, and I was wondering if there was any way to plug in Houdini Engine nodes into Phoenix containers (without having to save out VDB's from Houdini). The standard workflow for Maya/Houdini engine builds Maya fluid containers to display/render volume data, is there was any way to get that same functionality direct into Phoenix without exporting VDB's?

[vlado]

I'm guessing that we will have to add some of the options of the VRayVolumeGrid plugin to the fluid containers, or else be able to wire a fluid container to a VRayVolumeGrid plugin as the source of the data. Will have to look into it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[mikeRhone]

Thanks Vlado. Ya, ultimately it would be great if we could avoid using a Maya fluid container at all. I'll be stoked to see if you guys can come up with something..!

-M