Was anyone able to create fire, smoke, clouds?

[coilbook]

Hi I wonder if anyone was able to create fire, smoke, clouds using Octane for 3ds max?

[boris]

did some tests.
you can create your own vdb files using fumefx or houdini if you have access to it.
or download sample vdbs from http://www.openvdb.org/download/
create a octane volume and link the vdb, place a "volume medium" an play with the values in material editor.. the "volume step length" is one important value.

PS: renderings took a minute or two. so speed is quite good i think.

[coilbook]

did some tests.
you can create your own vdb files using fumefx or houdini if you have access to it.
or download sample vdbs from http://www.openvdb.org/download/
create a octane volume and link the vdb, place a "volume medium" an play with the values in material editor.. the "volume step length" is one important value.

octane3_02.jpg

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PS: renderings took a minute or two. so speed is quite good i think.

Wow! Nice thank you

[ThaRaven]

Fire and Smoke seems to work. Fire emission creates noise that takes allot of time to clean up

[aoktar]

Fire and Smoke seems to work. Fire emission creates noise that takes allot of time to clean up

use low values in gi_clamp

[ThaRaven]

will try that. not simming anything larger at the moment till i manage to get rid of this.

Edit:
Also matching the Octane Vollume to the Original Grid is a pain .. Point cloud display would be nice to do this

[boris]

Also matching the Octane Vollume to the Original Grid is a pain .. Point cloud display would be nice to do this

+1

[coilbook]

Fire and Smoke seems to work. Fire emission creates noise that takes allot of time to clean up

Nice I was worried about noise too. Is this Diffuse or AO. I hope Octane will implement that antinoise program they were talking about

[coilbook]

By the way has anyone tried to use Octane Cloud Service. IS it pricey ? is it fast?
Thank you

[ThaRaven]

it was PT. could not get the Fire to scatter through smoke with DL