how to render phoenix fd particles in octane

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goku223344
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everytime i try to render it says it's not octane material and the render just gives me a white background with a gray circle. No fire no nothin.
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calus
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goku223344 wrote:everytime i try to render it says it's not octane material and the render just gives me a white background with a gray circle. No fire no nothin.
You need to export the phoenix fd grid as a VDB grid :
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/PHX3MAYA/Output

Then create a volume object from Octane menu and set path to the VDB file.
The last step is to setup the volume material...
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goku223344
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calus wrote:
goku223344 wrote:everytime i try to render it says it's not octane material and the render just gives me a white background with a gray circle. No fire no nothin.
You need to export the phoenix fd grid as a VDB grid :
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/PHX3MAYA/Output

Then create a volume object from Octane menu and set path to the VDB file.
The last step is to setup the volume material...
i thought octane can render phoenix simulation without vdb
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