Bifrost Bootcamp 4.4 - Rendering volumes

Jason discusses some of the special considerations for rendering volumes, and the trade-off between Bifrost's tile tree and OpenVDB's sparse volume format. Expand this description for download links and more. 00:00 - Intro 00:07 - Rendering volumes 00:27 - Load the example 00:58 - Final tab and output 01:30 - Diagnostics 02:00 - Adaptive and sparse volumes 03:20 - VDB tile tree example 03:50 - The VDB tradeoff and "baking" 05:10 - Bob and Bifrost vs VDB 05:45 - The tile tree 07:15 - The rendering begins 07:50 - Rendering in Arnold 08:15 - Render settings 10:20 - Volumes are big and heavy and difficult 10:30 - Render settings comparison 13:50 - VDB rendering Download the scenes, compounds, slides, lesson plans and other files to follow along or adapt for your own curriculum: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/bifrost_bootca… OpenVDB plug-in for Unreal: www.eidosmontreal.com/news/adding-openvdb-support-…

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