Volumetric Rendering - Is animation supported?

3DMinh

Hi,

I'm tempted to upgrade Daz Studio to 4.20, however I still have one question: with the new Volumetric Rendering, can I create animation of an explosion or a cloud within daz studio? I can use other tools like blender etc..., but can I still render the animation in Daz Studio with iray?

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Minh

Richard Haseltine

As far as I can tell using a sequence of VDBs is not currently supported. Materials ettings can be animated using various scripts, though not through the base application alone

3DMinh

Richard Haseltine said:

As far as I can tell using a sequence of VDBs is not currently supported. Materials ettings can be animated using various scripts, though not through the base application alone

Thanks. I really hope a PA will create a product for this, or at least a tutorial. On the promotion page of the volumetric rendering, Daz's showing 2 animations though...

Gordig

It's not ideal, but you could render it out frame-by-frame and replace the VDB for each frame.

Richard Haseltine

Gordig said:

It's not ideal, but you could render it out frame-by-frame and replace the VDB for each frame.

I would think that was how the video was done, it is probably scriptable given a folder full of sequentially-named VDB files.

mCasual

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Daz Script to iRay-Render animated volumetrics (.vdb)  updated last night 

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/554116/texanim-2022-0414-animate-texture-maps-and-vdb-volumetrics#latest

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tFXjzSx2pk8

mCasual

free

Daz Script to iRay-Render animated volumetrics (.vdb)  updated last night 

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/554116/texanim-2022-0414-animate-texture-maps-and-vdb-volumetrics#latest

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tFXjzSx2pk8

 

3DMinh said:

Richard Haseltine said:

As far as I can tell using a sequence of VDBs is not currently supported. Materials ettings can be animated using various scripts, though not through the base application alone

Thanks. I really hope a PA will create a product for this, or at least a tutorial. On the promotion page of the volumetric rendering, Daz's showing 2 animations though...