Basic TFD Fire Setup

[rustyippolito]

I am trying to follow the settings posted by Juanjo using blackbody emission medium but i am not seeing the same controls as his posted screen grabs showed for the scatter medium (no "scale" setting anymore?). Using LW2015.3/Octane 3.06.0.4/TFD Build 1425. Does anyone have a simple setup scene that illustrates the basic workflow for TFD fire/smoke so we can see the correct way to implement it in our setups? I have not been able to locate any docs or samples that do this. If one does exist, a apologize for not being able to find it. About to start new spot with fire needs and really want to use Octane instead of LW render for the fire/smoke. Thanks for any info you can give:)


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[juanjgon]

Hi,

This is the basic configuration that I use for the blast demo scene, including the black body emission setup.

Hope this helps,
-Juanjo

[rustyippolito]

Hey Juanjo- I appreciate your responce but entering these values does not yield the same image for me here. Was this example made using the latest Octane build and the latest TFD (1425)? I am really struggling with the workflow and starting point for values in the pipeline. Are you working on more complete documentation and example scenes in the near future? Sorry to bug you... I have used Fumefx for years but I am hoping to use a tfd/Octane solution for some quick turnaround r&d work. I have seen exactly what I need in your renders of fire, but really struggling to reproduce it here.

Thanks for your time-

Cheers
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[juanjgon]

This is the scene. Probably you are going to need to change the cache path in the TFD container and the Octane volumetrics options panel, but it should work fine. Yes, I'm using the latest plugin build.

If the scene doesn't work on your system, please let me know.

Thanks,
-Juanjo

[rustyippolito]

Thanks so much Juanjo! We now have a great start to reverse engineer these TFD and Octane settings to work in our pipeline:)

As always, you have gone above and beyond and we really appreciate your help


cheers
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