Import EmberGen VDB files in Octane for Blender w/ Lino Grandi | NVIDIA Studio Session

[@ReviewHole]

Volume properties does not exist in the cube's data tab for me.

[@godzoookie]

Shift A>Volume>import VDB, 14:06

[@ReviewHole]

@@godzoookie thanks! I seem to remember getting this to work but i'll remember this for next time.

[@PrometheusPhamarus]

Thanks Lino for the showcase, Embergen is on my eyes and in my mind.

[@activemotionpictures]

Thank you for showing us the naming $4f$ is a variable naming convention to read the vdb sequence. Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@WillFalcon]

EmberGen render is very fast comparing to octane and/or cycles, so It is a good isea to use it to render animation and import blender/C4D camera into the EmberGen

[@goldstick3D]

Hah, I skipped forward a lot and then thought how many interesting custom nodes you've got there.. But then realized that it's octane :D

[@JohnFranklin1982]

Thank you very much! Exactly what I needed!

[@marconwps]

Great Lino =) !!!

[@cresshead]

nice vid great info

[@nehvis8109]

For some reason linking the black body emission node does absolutely nothing for me. Other people seem to have the same problem, so I guess it has to do with the newer version. Any ideas?

[@1polygonewithme]

Great 👍 video very useful still in 2025

[@glamlin7432]

2.83 no octane vdb?

[@NonStopMixaTron]

I'm curious about this too

[@zander8713]

@@NonStopMixaTron @Glam lin I believe you have to use the Import OpenVDB in-Blender method (When you hit shift-A)

[@NonStopMixaTron]

@@zander8713 Yes you are correct. I figured this out a couple days after making this post and never came back to update.

[@zander8713]

@@NonStopMixaTron Yeah I figured. I made this mainly for others browsing the comments section :)

[@haronbahamuthat407]

@@zander8713 thanks! at first i did that, but denoiser didn't work on the edges so i thought it must have to do with improper octane vdb loading..? but it's not that, they just made it normal in blenderoctane to import vdb as usual.

[@lionsden1946]

Is there an update for this that works in the latest version of Blender?

[@Smuffy]

Cant get the fire to come through please help!

[@MrPK]

thanks

[@godzoookie]

When I duplicate (Shift D) VDB and change settings for frame start etc. all copies change in Blender 2.93.2

[@godzoookie]

When will I learn to watch whole video before commenting?

[@jcnwillemsen]

correction: there seems to be a major discrepancy between viewport and render density. Make sure you check the 'octane camera imager' on your active scene camera, this will show render output in viewport. ---------------- Finally got it to work: For those that struggle with smoke/blackbody relation: - select the same blender volume grid attribute as emitter used in the octane volume setting, so Temp Temp, or flame flame ect - I use a very low density, like 0.001, higher values cause problems with the blackbody shading. - adding value to texture in blackbody emission can be usefull for creating more light radiation from the object.