CGPress uses technology like cookies to analyse the number of visitors to our site and how it is navigated. We DO NOT sell or profit from your data beyond displaying inconspicuous adverts relevant to CG artists. It'd really help us out if you could accept the cookies, but of course we appreciate your choice not to share data.
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
I am usually cheerful regarding blender development, however I am frustrated that they fail to focus on important and quick to solve issues which would enable it to serve as serious and complete alternative to the existing stagnation/extortion-ware on market. Mainly still no OpenVDB after so many years! Forget about decent smoke, fire, RBD simulations (destruction), clouds, whitewater etc. Next time you need whitewater just use particles and ridiculously instance semi transparent spheres there causing your scene to grind to a halt. Need smoke imported? export 2GB alembic pointcloud files per FRAME and hope that point_density node reads them in resolution they were exported… but it does not, it’s absolutely broken for anim and render farm use, inefficient, slow and low quality.
Frustratingly it is integrated already, so it would not cause code bloat. It writes some custom meta_data which other applications discard (like houdini), however even when attempting to emulate it and write it back, blender just CRASHES on reading any imported openvdb but its own. Even opening these .vdb files independently with pyopenvdb will result in unknown metadata, so cannot write meta_data back with some external command line process. To me it would seem like a day at most for developer to create exception handling while importing external openvdb. Of course proper UI would be nice too, but it will not materialize as internal consensus will not be reached as on so many other aspects. Until then pretty much ANY slightly serious VFX, VIDEO production is blocked.
So here we are, still THE ONLY major 3D application with this feature absent. OPEN SOURCE but failing to embrace OPEN standards. Next time you see some great movie being done with blender, know it’s a custom build from old version that had UDIM, OpenVDB, perhaps even a method to import simulated alembic hair and not crash the viewport. Stuff that matters in production. I apologize for rant, but there’s been too much focus on all the glitter lately that has minimal to no impact what so ever compared to such critical features that prevent one project execution after another.