Allright,
thanks for the effort !
But these are all too smokey and not flamey , especially at the source...
This effect is important to get right,
at the end I tried with redshift and (unfortunately) got a much closer look... without headache.
it still sucks compared to the Embergen sim though ...

Alright,
so see in the picture here ,
whatever how i play with emissive gradient, it affects the tail, the smoke part...
http://julienbach.de/files/SMOKE%26FLAME_PROBLEM.jpg


I neet the blowtorch to be like fire, like this :
http://julienbach.de/files/FlameREF.jpg
and its just immossible to ...

Thank you Beppe for your quick reaction !
At least something thats looks like a fire shows up in the viewport...
Now I can't get it the other way around, like in the embergen example : its currently the aged part of the fire that gets emissive where it should be smoke, and its the young part that ...

Hi there,

For an important theater show I must render a dragon spitting fire simulation,
I have a part of the .VDB here :
julienbach.de/files/SpitFire.7z

But I can't get the shading right, I did many tuts embergen/octane,
and i never get the nice shading, i just get ugly overburned stuff and ...

Thanks Beppe !
These few % difference will help & save a couple hours

Hi there,

i'm in a similar situation,
i need motion-blur for a massive alembic cached simulation.
Sub-frame motion blur is definitely out of question (resolution is 6800kx3540 with a 400GB particles cache)

Its frustrating to have the Volume Mesher being unable to extract velocity...
I saw this ...

Too bad there isn't a "biased speed rendering" option for octane :p

In this case it doesn't make sense to render with an unbiased engine but thats all I got... :/

Here are my settings :

Thank you Beppe & everyone, it works like a charm

Hi there,

I have to render a quite big water simulation done in Liquigen.
The built-in Liquigen render engine would be good enough for what I need but I need to render with a spherical camera, so I would render it in C4D+octane.

Problem is... switching to octane takes more than... 2min per frame ...

Thanks for all the info.
So I'm starting a new work and installed the daemon node thing,
but as soon as I launch it I get the message "Daemon startup script does not exist. Please install the daemon first."
Which is what I just did...

Any clue on what to do ??
I'm about to buy a GPU for an extra ...