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Chaos Corona for Cinema 4D => [C4D] General Discussion => Topic started by: Evine on 2023-03-22, 16:05:31

Title: smoke rendering
Post by: Evine on 2023-03-22, 16:05:31

Just curious when will Corona support smoke simulation plugins like Turbulence FD?
BTW, how do you guys render smoke in C4D?

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2023-03-22, 16:16:01

Hi, ''Pyro'' in 2023 is on our list. Currently, the best way is to export the sim as a .vdb sequence and use a link the pyro object to the Corona volume grid to render it. :)

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=180818;image)

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Evine on 2023-03-22, 16:23:36

Quote from: Beanzvision on 2023-03-22, 16:16:01

Hi, ''Pyro'' in 2023 is on our list. Currently, the best way is to export the sim as a .vdb sequence and use a Corona volume grid to render it. :)

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=180818;image)

What is Pyro, exactly?

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2023-03-23, 08:25:22

This is Pyro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imsb4OA_fM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imsb4OA_fM)

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Evine on 2023-03-25, 10:04:38

Quote from: Beanzvision on 2023-03-23, 08:25:22

This is Pyro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imsb4OA_fM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3imsb4OA_fM)

Thx for your help. But BTW, how about us]ing volume mesher to generate a mesh for the vdb item, and apply a smoke material to it?

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: burnin on 2023-03-25, 12:47:41

Could do it, but then you only get homogeneous dense volume.

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2023-03-27, 08:53:16

It is possible to simply drag in a VDB file (static or animated) into C4D and you can then drop that into a Volume mesher and apply a Corona volume mat to it.

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=181025;image)

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=181027;image)

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Evine on 2023-03-27, 17:48:57

Quote from: Beanzvision on 2023-03-27, 08:53:16

It is possible to simply drag in a VDB file (static or animated) into C4D and you can then drop that into a Volume mesher and apply a Corona volume mat to it.

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=181025;image)

(https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39672.0;attach=181027;image)

thx. that's an excelent example

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2023-03-28, 08:52:06

You're welcome!

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Stefan-L on 2023-03-31, 19:28:20

thats a nice cloud example, interesting you render it via the vol mesher. could you share it maybe?

Title: Re: smoke rendering
Post by: Beanzvision on 2023-05-24, 10:10:19

Quote from: Stefan-L on 2023-03-31, 19:28:20

thats a nice cloud example, interesting you render it via the vol mesher. could you share it maybe?

Sure! Here you go :)
https://jangafx.com/software/embergen/download/free-vdb-animations/