Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist

VDB cloudscapes using Houdini, EmberGen & Unreal Engine 🪐

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

VDB Cloudscapes fast summary from my first year using EmberGen beta with @LambertTibo's excellent Unreal NanoVDB plugin. Full 2 min version on YouTube tomorrow. Next: getting into V1.0. Many ideas in the pipeline 🪐. #Unreal #JangaFX #EmberGen #VDB #Cloudscapes #ESCreators #Space

[Thibault Lambert @LambertTibo]

I'm excited to announce my new plugin "SVT Helper", now available on the Unreal Marketplace. It's a unified solution to use SVTs/VDBs with Volumetric Clouds and Volumetric Fog, in Editor, with Sequencer and in Game. RTs are really appreciated ! TYSM
https://t.co/T6mWgBGxYW

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Cloudscape, frozen cloud islands even. Made with EmberGen & LiquiGen, with a bit of Houdini and rendered in Unreal Engine. #unrealengine #embergen #vdb

[Jason Key @key_vfx]

2023 - it's almost done, on to the next one...🔊🤘🔊

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Experimenting with the alpha of #GeoGen from #JangaFX. Some kind of a fractured #moon with highly improbable thin atmosphere and very high cliffs.

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Using some new assets from #BigMediumSmall_ and a resized cloud simmed in #embergen , rendered in #UnrealEngine .

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Cloudscape of #UE5 #VDBs and a sprinkling of spacecraft from #BigMediumSmall, in amongst gargantuan clouds of a turbulent atmosphere. Quite like how this turned out so perhaps I'll put together a small sequence of similar moving stills to some music.

[Thibault Lambert @LambertTibo]

Unreal 5.3 Preview is out so it's now time to test VDB import with Sparse Volume Textures (SVT) and Heterogeneous Volumes. Combined with Embergen exported simulations this is 🔥.

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Cloudscape experiments with UDS and Nano VDB. Original clouds made in EmberGen. Screenshots from Unreal Engine 5. #UnrealEngine5 #vdb #3Dartist #EmberGen

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Snowy cloudscape, with wacky formations. Some R&D time led to me to combine limited aspects of Ultra Dynamic Sky & sparse VDB clouds. Second shot shows clearer definition than VDBs themselves allow without being impossible to load. Music: Epidemic Sound. #UE5 #VDB #Cloudscape

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Drifting... above a planetary cloudscape.
WIP animation utilising assets from #bigmediumsmall_  Rendered in #UE5 with Thibault Lambert's #NanoVDB plugin. Cloudscape made in #Embergen 1.0. Music from #EpidemicSound.

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

Animated VDB Cloudscape made in EmberGen 1.0 and rendered in Unreal, with Thibault Lambert's NanoVDB plugin. Been a while since I did a random thing like this in an afternoon. ☁️
#UnrealEngine5 #EmberGen #NanoVDB #Cloudscape

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

@FakeSmileNFT No worries glad you got it working :)

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

@LambertTibo This looks amazing 🤩 Glad you are still finding the time to work on it! Been too occupied elsewhere to be able to explore yet..

[Thibault Lambert @LambertTibo]

My local build of #UnrealVDB now supports all lights and Lumen GI. Having GI really grounds the VDBs in the environment and adds so much details IMO.

#unrealengine #realtimeVFX #NanoVDB

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

@carefreeastro Wow, this is stunning! The modern equivalent of the kind of photos that inspired me so much as a kid to be interested in astronomy. Thanks for posting 😃.

[Thibault Lambert @LambertTibo]

Teaser (I should probably say spoiler) for next VDB feature & video.

#UE5 #realtimevfx #UnrealVDB

[Thibault Lambert @LambertTibo]

Added support for Unreal Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) to improve VDB rendering.
Right column is showing previous behavior.

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

@RuiHuang_art @LambertTibo Thanks!😀

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

VDB Cloudscapes fast summary from my first year using EmberGen beta with @LambertTibo's excellent Unreal NanoVDB plugin. Full 2 min version on YouTube tomorrow. Next: getting into V1.0. Many ideas in the pipeline 🪐. #Unreal #JangaFX #EmberGen #VDB #Cloudscapes #ESCreators #Space

[Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist @steven_fayers]

@GerardDunleavy @LambertTibo Thanks :)