Import VDB's into Unreal Engine 5.4

[@Void_rift_disconnect]

Bro you are amazing! Thank you for this tutorial. I just want to say respectfully the pronunciation is Hett-er-oh-jean-us volume. I subscribed because you are chill and informative.

[@imvisuals215]

@@Void_rift_disconnect Thank you for informing me. I have a thing for grammar so I REALLY appreciate you helping me out🫡✅

[@artkandytattoo4174]

just curious, did you change the battery in your smoke alarm after this?

[@ThomasBerglund-y8f]

Question. why isn't the smoke floating seamlessly? it goes to 250 then it hacks back

[@djtc2093]

Hey man. Great vids. So there is this weird thing where if your VDB is placed away from the centre of the map the shadows and general fx quality is degraded heavily, any idea why?

[@imvisuals215]

@@djtc2093 I haven’t had that issue at all. I have had flickering severely when I add more than 1 H volume. Haven’t tried it in 5.5 yet though

[@djtc2093]

@@imvisuals215 It's just a shadow issue, have you tried putting the VDB far from the centre of the level and seeing if your shadow quality really degrades?

[@djtc2093]

When I import my explosion its very dark, with no emissive flash for the explosion just smoke. Any ideas?

[@MysteryMatrix547]

i cant install the plugin when i do it says that sparse volumetric folder not found and also i am using 5.4 when i import it , it does import but when i search sparse volume material in content browser nothing shows up any help.

[@imvisuals215]

@@MysteryMatrix547 which side of the content browser are you searching in? Don’t search on the folder side. Search above the drawer side where everything shows up. If you search above the folders it won’t show

[@vincentatamosa2003]

awesome vid, may i ask what your pc specs is? cuz ur able to import almost 400 vdb files which is highly insane for my pc to handle, cant even import longer than 300 without it crashing

[@imvisuals215]

Thank you. I have a 3090 24gb with 64g ram and a 12900 processor.

[@jrsoldano1444]

"Failed to import" warning. Also, the sparse volume material is not found. Any tips?

[@jrsoldano1444]

This is happening in version 5.4, for clarity

[@xjuliussx]

omg, the intro blow me up !

[@imvisuals215]

Thank you for watching

[@peterdavies8807]

'Sparse Volume Material' not loaded!! Not showing in my Content Drawer! I've got Texture - no Material!! Help!!!

[@imvisuals215]

@@peterdavies8807 go to your content browser and type in sparse volume material then create an instance of it and send it to your selected folder. Open it and add the texture to it. Now u should have ur MI. Use that inside of your heterogeneous volume.

[@imvisuals215]

Are you using 5.4? If not then you need to make the material.

[@kunalbiswas3936]

My import is stuck at 99% while importing vdb pls help 😢

[@imvisuals215]

@@kunalbiswas3936 Where are you importing the VDB from? It shouldn’t take long to import the sequence. Try to restart ur engine and let me know. I can go live later and help u with it if u need me to

[@kunalbiswas3936]

I'm importing vdb from Houdini. It's getting stuck at 99% and crashing I tried restarting and repeating the process many times but didn't work.

[@imvisuals215]

@@kunalbiswas3936I absolutely HATE Houdini! It fried my GPU. What type ofof VDB are you trying to import? Clouds? Smoke and fire? Have you checked out embergen? There are some free assets you can get from JangaFX.com

[@kunalbiswas3936]

@@imvisuals215 I was importing explosion and another dust sim from Houdini. Embergen free online vdbs I checked currently server is not working so couldn't download anything.

[@kunalbiswas3936]

​@@imvisuals215I checked the jangafx vdbs it worked