More open VDB stuff

[bigbossfr]

Ok good to know. But it seems like a plugin , it's not integrated in maya right?

VRay is a plugin also so....

[jstrob]

Yes vray is a plugin but it's a plugin many max users and now maya users already have. It's also really not a problem selling asset on turbosquid with the vray plugin.

[jstrob]

its actually possible in vray volumegrid..!! (only with isosurface mode.. mesh mode doesnt work)

no plugins needed. .. only thing missing is the working viewport preview.. and the fast rendering (although does seem faster than metaballs)

check this file out:

load any vdb (i used icosahedron.vdb, incuded in that zip)

set surface to "texture" and choose your procedural texture

choose some cutter geometry and use that to carve out the form you want.

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Cool! I'm looking into this! that would be a replacement for this particular vdb feature. I'm just wondering if we can then convert it to mesh for further processing?

[jstrob]

With just an area light it's rendering in 30 seconds here. The most interesting with this method (the texture surface of the vray volume grid) is that the edges are really sharp! The downside is that we can't convert this to mesh to add other modifiers or to sculpt it in zbrush.



Thanks for sharing this super GNU!

[jstrob]

I just recorded this video to show how it goes in Houdini.

[super gnu]

Chaos: any possibility of the above vrayvolumegrid workflow being made to work with mesh mode and viewport preview? There is the attached max file a few posts back to test if you want

[super gnu]

i was going to say that the nice thing about this method isw it works with RT (cpu) so its not as painful to set up as it might be... However, ive found the procedural textures are different between rt and production, making any tweaks to the procedurals in rt useless.

[super gnu]

just playin.. inside the cheese.



slow to render, but pretty impossible any other way than an isosurface.

some stepping visible.

be nice to have a way to remove the random floating bits, but id imagine that would be rather hard without a decent viewport preview.

[vlado]

Heh that does look nice

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

Heh that does look nice

Best regards,
Vlado

yeah id love to
a) remove the floating bits

and

b) put some vegetation and stuff on the level bits.

but both would require a very decent mesh approximation for setup and object placement.