Embergen 0.75 Animated Meshes VDB To Blender!

[@UnknownDino]

Embergen is one of the coolest vfx softwares out there right now. The same simulation would take many many hours in blender.

Yes! Embergen makes you achieve professional simulation almost instantly. In the future I'm going to focus more on embergen but also Houdini! :)

[@Lance_G]

Would love to see more complex Embergen tutorials with Blender! This is a great tutorial!

[@liangyijin4718]

Wow! This is so cool and easy to use. Thanks for sharing

Glad you enjoyed the video! :)

[@VfxNanu]

how to change frame rate

[@mg-se5ws]

why my animation do not match the same frame rate

[@srod8509]

Thank you so much for making this

Glad you liked it! :)

[@srod8509]

@ Is there an Embergen plugin for UE5?

@@srod8509 Not that I know of, you can check out winbush's video where he explains the process of importing VDB's into UE5 kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3bGnayurKiKl7s&ab_channel=WINBUSH

[@srod8509]

@ Yep Winbush has a great tutorial for OpenVDB. But the EmberGen fire does not work in UE5. I'll just wait till the OpenVDB plugin supports the EmberGen parameters for fire. Thank you for your "Embergen 0.75 Animated Meshes VDB To Blender tutorial." I enjoyed it!

​@@srod8509 Glad you enjoyed it, I'll let you know if I find any solution to this!

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

i missed so much while watching. I had to watch several tuts in order to finish this tutorial. But thanks anyways. the idea was good.

Glad you liked it! Yea this was not a in depth tutorial, more to show in what direction you need to take to achieve this effect :)

[@AbdullahYazbahar]

@ Cool!

[@harison.t2570]

after i export, it only exports the simulation without animation. what to do about this?

[@sgproductions6336]

Did you do all in 60fps?

[@lovechopra07]

but how to scale border box . bcz smoke collied with the box

[@Anomaliayt]

When I link my fbx geometry to emitter, it’s just a huge block of smoke. I can’t seem to resize anything :(( I can see the scale of the fbx animation and it’s fine, but as soon as link the emitter its just pure smoke filling 100% of the simulation area

It's probably due to the simulation size being too small. If you press the simulation node in embergen you can adjust the xyz axis under the voxel count parameter. Hope this helps and good luck! :)

[@enigmawstudios4130]

Here's a question, for far moving animations, such as a jet engine that curves, how do you extend your scene beyond the bounding box??

Good question! You can adjust the scale of the bounding box accordingly to the scale of your engine trail. You could also scala down the animated path and adjust all the physics setting so the simulation "looks" normal sized. The third alternative could be to have the engine static and key animate the force fields to emulate the look that the engines are actually following a path. Hope this helps!

[@enigmawstudios4130]

@ they're definitely good ideas given the limitations. Many thanks! And awesome video

@@enigmawstudios4130 one of my upcoming videos is a huge scifi heist, and I'll probably use a similar effect! 🤩

[@enigmawstudios4130]

@ nice! I'm definitely checking it out. I see too many unoriginal videos based on other people's IP. Now is the time to create our own material. I'm working on a feature with relatively small budget (big action sci-fi) to see if it can be pulled off. Just look at what Ian Hubert has done

@@enigmawstudios4130 yea ian also inspired me to do more advanced animations/ short! Let me know when yours are finished, would love to see it!

[@dossantos_films]

Awesome!

Glad you liked it!

[@Concodroid]

Thanks!

Glad you like it Concodroid! :)

[@Concodroid]

@ I forgot how to do it... again, came back... again, it worked... again, thanks again!

[@Bentamitouhaminourine]

thank you!

[@underguru4395]

I have a problem, when I import an fbx file to embergen the animations becomes slower.

How big is the fbx file size? It could affect the playback tine of the simulation

[@drinnerd8532]

wait... hold on. You didn't explain how to add the "simple volume shader!!" Don't leave me hangin', man!!

Sorry I forgot to include it in the video! Add a principled volume shader node in your smoke material. In the "temperature " input write "flames" instead. Then play around with the temperature value and density parameters to achieve the look your after. Make sure to switch to the cycles engine when working with VDB's to be able to see the volume! Good luck 😄👍

[@knighth1868]

here's a question, when i import an abc file from blender to embergen ,there is nothing show

Hi, have you tried to experiment with the file size of the mesh? Sometimes you even need to increase it 10 to 100000x to see the mesh. Hope this helps! :)

[@JeanYanb]

great vid! but what about the shading part?

I had to keep the video short due to lack of footage. After importing the vdb i added a volume shader in the shading tab (princible volume). To get a better result, try lowering the density to a value like 0.2-0.5. Hope this helps and stay tuned!

[@flipnap2112]

actually the shading part is the most important. this is why the sims in embergen look so good and why embergen is no nice. once you realize how many time you need to render passes to check the shading, it gets rough. of course if you have a shader you like to use all the time then its fine. but you need to use the principled volumetric shader in blender, and make sure to play with the temperature, flame, etc settings. theres a ton of tutorials about it. however, like I said, you would be much much better off learning to comp and bring things in and out embergen, for the lighting.

@@flipnap2112 well explained, I personally feel more comfertable tweaking the shading settings in blender.

[@flipnap2112]

@ yep just look up VDB shading in blender. but like I said, your shading in embergen is instant. I was tweaking VDB shaders in blender but can work 3 thousand times faster in embergen. you get instant results 60 times a second. and to be honest, the shading in embergen is insanely powerful. I no longer render VDB in blender. I do all my shading and sims in embergen and render with alphas for comp. . its super powerful and very pretty

@@flipnap2112 okay I'll definitely check out embergens shading options!

[@Nerv3D]

is motionblur possible with embergen vdb in blender? I have hard time figure out, maybe you know?

[@MarCuseus]

As far as I know, VDBs do not support motion blur in Blender. It can be added in post though.

Correct! Hopefully they'll implement it in upcoming updates!

Hi nerv! Unfortunately they don't support VDB motionblur within blender yet! But as MarCuseusFx said: you can add it in post!

[@MarCuseus]

Snyggt :)

Tack! 😁🙏

[@SeanyKrabs]

I hate the fact that you have to scale everything. I want a burning weapon for example, and it's impossible to know how to scale it accordingly.

Yea, hopefully they fix it soon!

[@LovingShyzi]

You got a disc?

Unfortunately not but we'll see

[@pxrposewithnopurpose5801]

we want more tutorial

What do you mean? 😃

[@pxrposewithnopurpose5801]

@ sorry "want"

@@pxrposewithnopurpose5801 sure! Stay tuned 🤩

[@9words40]

he smoke

No u