Import VDBs into Unreal Engine 5

[@WilliamFaucher]

Fantastic man, thanks so much for putting together for us!

[@JonathanWinbush]

100% my dude I need to do a follow up showing how to get some good results but hopefully this was good enough to help people get started 🤙🏿

[@OnyxLee]

Wow, both of you in one place. Amazing! Thank you both for your great contributions to the community! The plugin is still very limited. I can't make anything good out of it. 😂

[@GregPlatt]

This is fantastic! Thank you for the walkthrough! Note for those running into similar issues about VdbResearch- names got updated in release 0.4.0: -Rename VdbActors to VdbMaterialActors, because they use Unreal`s material system -Rename VdbResearch* to VdbPrincipled* because they use a custom shader based on offline raytracer principled shaders -Rename VdbVolume to VdbVolumeStatic

[@JonathanWinbush]

Good to know thanks for the update brother 🤙🏿

[@betafunk8472]

Thanks for this. But when I go to insert a VDB Principled Actor, it doesn't show me volumetrics in the Details panel. What gives? Cheers.

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@betafunk8472 I'm guessing it's from the update I havent tried the latest version out

[@pnobody2187]

THANKS!

[@eyedesyn]

Appreciate the shout out man! I didn't know about the free VDBs from Janga! Thanks for that! 🙌

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea Janga just dropped those literally yesterday morning before I started to record

[@Raitan2008]

I have been playing with this for a few hours now, and my best result so far is to use embergen for the vdb creation, export density and flames, and use the flames for temperature instead of temp. Then I play with the density multiplier and the black body values, and I get some really nice flames. Thanks again for the tutorial and pointing me in the right direction.

[@maugbo]

Some problem fixing, If it helps anyone: -To get rid of grainy VDBs: go to "Volume > Attributes" and increase the Samples Per Pixel. -I also noticed that some sims won't appear complete (as if they were distorted by the bounding box) or do not appear at all. To fix this you can decrease the Local Step Size (although be careful as it can slow down a lot your PC performance). Big thanks for the tut on this plugin Winbush!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Awesome tips thanks for sharing! 🤙🏾

[@jaychoirenderender]

hi, looking for that volume > attribute! can't find it anywhere man! is it under project setting?

[@cr0uchingtiger]

@@jaychoirenderender you can find it in the details panel when the vdb is selected. It's under the MaterialComponent. Although be careful. I wasn't noticing any difference so I typed in 64 and everything went dog slow, so I tried to type over the number 64 with 12 and UE, being slow, entered 6412 and crashed.

[@JamalPennant]

Been waiting for along time for vdbs to be used in unreal. Thanks for the tutorial 👍🏾

[@JonathanWinbush]

You and me both brother 🤙🏿

[@JonathanWinbush]

Video links: Update Unreal Engine 5.3 now supports NATIVE VDBs! See my latest on it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5m6oqCqmJWHbdUsi=blsh9KpQQKKAPUs7

[@3dstuff677]

Great content !! Question, How can we apply volumetric lighting system to vdb clouds ?? ( like nebulas in space ) I cant find anything about it .... Thanks Bro !!Great content !! Question, How can we apply volu

[@privaatsak]

What a find! Thank you dude! Still working in what seems to be the final release for UE 5.2.1

[@eldridgefelder3427]

I'm really surprised Epic never started creating a VDB solution internally. Especially one that could convert VDB into Niagara particles. This would be awesome because then the particles would be game ready. Still a great plugin. Thanks for sharing.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea hopefully they just buy this out and keep the development going cause I know of few people at Epic saw this video and I definitely been asking them for VDB support since like 4.25

[@luigitasso1894]

Yess man converting VDBs to Niagara would be a huge gamechanger!

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@luigitasso1894 that would be pretty dope 🤙🏿

[@Unknowable_Void]

This is great man, amazing tutorial. recently started learning how to create complex VDBs in Houdini. cant wait to try them out in UE5 :)

[@JonathanWinbush]

That's awesome man. The plugin is still beta so results may vary but I can see this being a valueable tool in the future as it keeps getting worked on 🤙🏿

[@tom.konxompax]

yeah i'm hyped about doing cool stuff in houdini and bringing them all into unreal!!!

[@markperceval]

Amazing thanks for this. Been waiting for realtime volumetric fx forever, I imagine now is a good time to incorporate embergen into the workfflow

[@JonathanWinbush]

I know Embergen did a twitter tutorial on using it with this as well looked really good

[@LoganPinney]

Dropping serious Ue knowledge, as always!! Thanks for sharing your wisdom with the community Winbush

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you my man 🤙🏾

[@AleRender]

Winbush genius. I always find the precise explanation here. You have to associate yourself in my EVA series, with your mocap outfit!!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you my friend! 🤙🏿

[@paomakes]

This is beyond words, can't wait to get back home🤗

[@JonathanWinbush]

Definitely been a long time coming 🤙🏿

[@bagg22]

Awesome! Thanks, Winbush for all you do!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome. Thanks for the support! 🤙🏾

[@EnterMyDreams]

you're always being so clutch!!!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You already know lol Thank you for being here 🤙🏿

[@robertprescott9577]

Awesome. Never thought about using these before

[@JonathanWinbush]

Which one the VDB packs or the plugin

[@superff9]

thank you for this i was looking into it for a while

[@Raitan2008]

Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. I hope that in the future we can play with smoke colors and black body like we can with vdbs in blender in Lumen and not path tracer.

[@WinbushHere]

Thanks! I actually just did a tutorial about unreal 5.3 road map that shows it looks like we are getting official vdb support that'll do just that

[@Raitan2008]

@@WinbushHere Oh, I have path tracing ticked, but I am using lumen lit

[@ericgriffin120]

Well done. Very comprehensive. You've got a new subscriber.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you my friend glad to have you here! 🤙🏿

[@brunocandia9671]

Thanks for taking your time, good job

[@JonathanWinbush]

My pleasure! Thanks for the support as well 🤙🏿

[@opsxp23]

Thank you very much! Exactly what I was looking for.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Glad to help!

[@UnrealBucket]

Great video. Advanced stuff! 🔥

[@JonathanWinbush]

Appreciate it I gotta get Unreal Bucket on here!

[@kudjo24]

So for whatever reason, I can only get the VDBs from Embergens free downloads to show up. Anything created and exported on my own from Embergen lacks the ability to display correctly once dragged in, even as just a still VDB. Something about it clearly has to do with bounding size. Embergens free examples import with bounding box already scaled, custom ones exported from Embergen import as extremely tiny - now usually like in C4D you fix this by scaling your VDB up by 200x, which then shows the bounding box correctly in UE5, but still no VDB volumetrics are visible whatsoever. Tried increasing the Local Step Size and other parameters on UE's actor object for the vdb, but nothing works. Very weird since on import it clearly shows the custom VBD has density, flame, a dimension and memory size, but shows absolutely nothing. I'm thinking the VDBs available on Embergens site have a different parameter set on export that isn't so obvious for custom ones by it's users - have tried messing with upscaling / sim size in Embergen prior to export but still nothing.

[@GaelReze]

Perfect tutorial ; exactly what I was looking for ! Thanks !

[@JonathanWinbush]

Great glad to help you get started with this plugin

[@feelipeson]

As always great tutorial! Thanks!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you my friend 🤙🏿

[@MR3DDev]

Thanks man I am not good with Github and this helps

[@JonathanWinbush]

You and me both man I wish I was though as they always have the next version of UE in github you just have to manually compile it which is usually over my head

[@kaiserm21]

This is a game changer! If they add exponential height fog to the path tracer like they said they would, its almost ready to compete with the likes of redshift and octane!

[@JonathanWinbush]

I honestly feel like unreal is already on par just checking our art station lot of ue renders there that are insane

[@kaiserm21]

@@JonathanWinbush Yea its honestly insane, and I was amazed at the speed of the pathtracer as well. But there are some advanced features like anamorphic bokeh + Aperture Edge that are missing, though I allready saw some custom blueprint setups (paid) that fix those issues👍

[@KenHayward]

Thanks for the AWESOME video training, thumbs up

[@JonathanWinbush]

Make sure to check out my newest tutorial because vdb are now officially supported in ue 5.3

[@azvasamusic7095]

You’re literally a legend Thank you

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thank you so much I really appreciate the compliment! 🤙🏿

[@zoevie1]

Hi, when I drag and drop the VDB into my content browser it doesn't allow me to tick the "Is Sequence" and I cannot animate it. Anyone can help me ?

[@RmaNYouTube]

and if you drag the sequencer file into your level, and check the autoplay in its details, and play the game, you will have a photorealistic turnado vdb in your game 😁 that's cool!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Oh nice you tried it out yea?

[@ayinio]

Hi, I'm new. I have some issue about VDB in Unreal 5.1 . when i use Translucent material (glass) work with VDB. The glass looks always in front of VDB . How can i fix it. (Raster)

[@RollieHudson1]

Thanks for this. Very helpful! Much appreciated.

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome my friend 🤙🏿

[@AlexTottenham]

Very helpful video for those willing to make such a transfer, nice

[@JonathanWinbush]

Appreciate it 🤙🏾

[@MADMOVIESINC]

Thanks for the video WINBUSH. Very detailed steps. I am having an issue. I just got the plugin (UE5.1.1_0.6.5). When I try either installation method shown, the engine crashes while recompiling an older project. Can this be fixed, or do I just need to use it on new projects from here on out?

[@JosephWraith]

Thanks, great work as always!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Make sure to check out my latest tutorial because vdb are now native to unreal!

[@JosephWraith]

@@JonathanWinbush Will do, thanks for updating the information! I enjoy all your tutorials, keep up the great work!

[@_CDDVD_]

I shake hands firmly with respect u move world forward!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Much respect back to you my dude 🤙🏿

[@TheLudonline]

finaly someone is doing a tutorial about this, thanks for that ! About the embergern tornado exemple, how to import as well the dust brown material from embergen ? any tips on that ?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Im still exploring the plugin myself

[@darkarps]

nice one Jon!

[@JonathanWinbush]

I have a more recent video on this topic as it's part of unreal now kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5m6oqCqmJWHbdUsi=vQnPJLJ4ERjzix6C

[@shranosgaming2223]

Hey great video but I have a question, on the explosion animation part when you find the vdb research actor I could not find it on mine. Help is much appreciated

[@reedmorgan]

It's not showing up for me either in the 5.1.1 release. The VDB Principled actor won't allow you to import any VDB sequences into the timeline.

[@shranosgaming2223]

@@reedmorgan oooh ok, thanks for the explanation

[@chofthch]

Do we need to make it a film video event thingy or it can be in game too?

[@tombittikoffer412]

Dude, much thanks to you! I get SO much out of your videos.

[@JonathanWinbush]

No worries at all glad my content is helping! 🤙🏿

[@masonthompson3284]

dropped this just in time for this personal proj i'm porting to UE from c4d/octane!! winbush never sleeps haha

[@JonathanWinbush]

Sleep whats that lol Be careful though as this is still in beta so not sure how far it can be pushed yet but looking forward to see what you do 🤙🏿

[@oxygencube]

YESSSS! Thank you!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Haha yea man, make sure to follow Thibault too let him know anything you want to see in the plugin twitter.com/LambertTibo

[@JhonPitre]

Doesn;t work and I don't understand why, I drag the file but when I drag and drop the file appears just a black screen and I can't see nothing else, can you help me with this please ?

[@KingKong19100]

Hey Winbush do you think you could release an Updated version of this Tutorial? The workflow now is VERY different. For some reason, Pathtracing in 5.0.1 isn't enabling for me, and the VDB Research Actor onwards has all been changed. Please let me know!

[@JonathanWinbush]

I haven't looked at the plugin in awhile I'll probably wait until it's further along as it's been updating and changing alot

[@KingKong19100]

@@JonathanWinbush All good Winbush! Figured out everything except for UE 5.0.2 Path Tracing. For some reason I'm not able to use it, I'm not sure what happened to it in 5.0.1/5.0.2. Do you have any ideas on how to fix this?

[@NickRomick]

@@KingKong19100 I know this is old, but did you try enabling 'SM6' in Project Settings? (Platforms > Windows > D3D12 Targeted Shader Formats) - It's required for Path Tracing to show up in the Viewport options, but not required to enable in the project (which is misleading)

[@KingKong19100]

@@NickRomick Not old at all! I still really want to enable it so I can use VDBs in my project. I used to be able to do it but now it's not able to for some reason ever since I updated 5.0. I'll give this a shot and get back to you, thank you so much!!!

[@NickRomick]

@@KingKong19100 You're welcome! I had that issue before and was confused because it was enabled in the project... Then, I found the D3D12 stuff...

[@KIY0TO]

Thank you so very much for this tutorial!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Of course glad to help out 🤙🏾

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Would anyone know why I was unable to install this plug-in? I went there tonight and could not find an actual file to download. After much frustrated back and forth around the eidos site, I eventually just grabbed a zip file. I figured, what the heck. This seemed to have the SparseVolumetrics plug-in, along with a number of other UE project folders. I dropped this into my plug-ins folder, as per the tutor's directive. I launch UE5, and it tells me that it cannot compile the plug-in (I forget the precise message). Any thoughts / ideas??? Thanks.

[@JonathanWinbush]

Contact Lambert as I'm not sure what the latest updates are twitter.com/LambertTibo

[@keithyakouboff8755]

@@JonathanWinbush No Twitter account. Thanks anyway :) Has anyone else had trouble with this thing?

[@engrfaizan2011]

i am trying to import fumefx VDB sequence from maya into UE. start frame of my VDB sequence is not 0 or 1, its random frame number so UE is not reading it as a sequence. But when i import VDB sequence starting from frame 0, UE reads it as sequence. Is there any solution to import VDB sequence that doesn't start from frame 0???

[@bill16ful]

if you import a simple static vdb cloud, and you want to animate it,just a simple transform(position keys),on the render movie it doesn't appear the animation. you know the reason?

[@JhonPitre]

The pack of PIKEL LAB work for unreal? i make the question because I see are for C4D

[@segocarib]

Thanks for this great tutorial. For me, in LIT mode, I can see the imported OpenVDB Cloud in the vewport (UE5 Project) but once I choose path tracing (view mode) the vdb is not showing anymore. Raytrace is enabled, project is a blank new one. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea the plugin is super beta so alot of bugs still so it's best to let the developer know as he's working to improve everything

[@moleytv]

Super helpful. Thanks

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome and thanks for watching! 🤙🏿

[@ZAKarchitects]

Thank you so much.. I want to ask you if it'll be lite for archviz if i relied on vdb to simulate fireplace, smoke,fluids.. Etc or it'll be much heavy for packaging demo..?

[@JonathanWinbush]

You'd have to try it out it probably depends on how heavy your VDBs are

[@nguyenvu381]

Thank you man! But I have some problems with Its shader when I turn on substrate material in UE5.2.1. The Cloud I import in is disappear, I tried to edit the new material but it did'nt work. Can you check it out

[@amineroula]

this is amazing, thank you for sharing

[@JonathanWinbush]

My pleasure! 🤙🏿

[@mrhmakes]

So are these only good in pathtracer? or did you anyone get good results in Lumen / RT?

[@fabiosalvotelli1908]

This clouds can reflected on the water or is there a method for do it ?

[@zeeyannosse]

awesomeness brain melting good vibes incredible news ! whooooooOOo! thanks for the info ! Have a great day !

[@JonathanWinbush]

You too! Thanks for being here too you subbed right? Cause a lot more on this subject is coming 🤙🏿

[@zeeyannosse]

@@JonathanWinbush ohh man! true ! so true ! >>> my bad ;)) now fix>>> happy subscriber ! ;))) cheers !

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@zeeyannosse haha thanks happy to have you around! 🤙🏿

[@Unknowable_Void]

Hey Winbush wondering if you had a chance to test out this new plugin update with the current 5.1 build of Unreal? there's been a few big updates, not quite sure if the documentation mentions these changes to the way shaders are set up etc. Thanks again for the amazing content

[@JonathanWinbush]

Not yet been slammed getting my new unreal 5 for beginners course out

[@RmaNYouTube]

This was so fast :D

[@JonathanWinbush]

More to come 🤙🏿

[@victorblanchard7774]

Is that possible to import Foam and mist from Phoenix FD into Unreal using that plug in?

[@Stingray86]

Great video We have to be carefull with the latest release (0.6.0) VDBs layers (like density, temperature, flamme etc...) need to have the exact same size to work Otherwize you will be able to plug the density but other non-matching grids won't work In Houdini for exemple it might be the case when converting volumes to VDBs for export you'll need to do a "VDB Combine" in "Activity Union" mode with the vel.x for exemple to have the same grid size for all your layers

[@JonathanWinbush]

Thanks for the tip there! 🤙🏿

[@samkoszabo5950]

how can see vdb in file explorer ? did you download some kind of viewer?

[@bernhard.rieder]

Thank you so much, appreciate it. Unfortunately, after the installation, the Plugin doesn't show up within the Plugins. Could it be, that the plugin only works when UE5 was installed on the C drive? I use a different drive. Installed it exactly as you showed. But this thing is not showing up under All Plugins. Hmmm...

[@JonathanWinbush]

Honestly that's a question for the developer as I wouldn't know the logisitcs behind that one.

[@Kakarot99Plays]

Great work sir, Can you please help me with something, Please tell me why the vdb's that i am importing into unreal are getting pixelated look. Even the ones that are downloaded.

[@Nibbarese7]

same

[@elysiumeclogue5737]

Thanks a lot, very very helpful!

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome!

[@elysiumeclogue5737]

@@JonathanWinbush Wishing you a better and better life,you guys are amazing

[@pnobody2187]

So match great!! Thank you brother

[@JonathanWinbush]

No problem

[@futureframe1985]

Hi , winbush, did you get issue reagarding multiple vdb overlaping eachother , when you animate camera in overlaping vdb did you feel jerk or flick of depth issue in vdb between each other. because i get the issue of appearing and disappering between multiple vdb if there is a overlaping between them .

[@JonathanWinbush]

I've been using the official vdb support in 5.3

[@ArthurBaum]

Hey Winbush. SUper thankful for all the input and the tutorial. Thanks a lot. I'm still struggling to get a proper shadow from the VDBs in Unreal Engine. Am I missing something?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I've not used this plugin in a bit as it's still early in active development so I haven't checked in with it in awhile

[@keithyakouboff8755]

Hi there. Been watching your tute, and having some trouble. I cached out a 120-frame, VDB sequence from Maya's Bifrost (a gun blast). I exported 7 attributes with, 5 of which were accepted by UE5 during import: * voxel_flame_level_set * voxel_flame_speed * voxel_fog_density * voxel_temperature * and voxel_velocity. Why these? Well, I picked the attributes that seemed closest to what a Maya Learning Channel tutor was picking in his video. I.e., I'm guessing. So, after dragging and dropping the first frame of my VDB sequence into the Content folder, I waited a while, but eventually everything came in. But, it came in as 5 separate files (based on the attributes listed above). Not sure if this is correct or not. Anyway, I looked for VDBResearchActor, but it was not there. I went to the developer's site and it seems to have changed to VDBPrincipledActor. So, I selected this instead. I went into its details tab and started making changes based on his instructions. One thing that needed to be done was to -- and this aligns with what you say in your video -- go into the Lit menu and select Pathtracing. Well, I have no path tracing option, even though I set everything up in Project Settings. (I have a GTX card, which may be the culprit?) Anyway, all I have are dots. No volumetric cloudiness. All that, and it seems all I have is dots to show for it. LOL Follow-up.... Found the Step Size, which slows things down, but definitely makes my sim better in terms of its density / cloudiness. Unfortunately, while I can now control the color of the VDB, I cannot seem to get in heat info, and hence no fire. The options under PrincipledActor are not the same as under ResearchActor. This is fun! 😫😭

[@JonathanWinbush]

You have to hit up the developer I honestly haven't used this plugin much since this tutorial as the developer is actively always working on it so he's been updating often

[@keithyakouboff8755]

@@JonathanWinbush Of course. Well, thanks for taking the time to respond.

[@shuyusung5481]

Is it normal that plugin compiling for almost 1 hour?

[@PERSONAIOS]

yes

[@pierobaigorria3089]

always the best tutorials my friend!!!...I have a problem when opening after activating the plugin...there is a sign that says...missing modules....can someone help me...thank you very much !!hugs from Argentina

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'd say hit up the developer on that one he may have an idea of that error twitter.com/LambertTibo

[@JasonAdank]

Bummer, doesnt work for me. downloaded the current release of the plugin "UE5.0.3 Precompiled version 0.5.2". Using the same VDB pack as in the video. Seems to import fine but when I drag the VDB into the viewport, its black, not gray like in this video. Dragging the "Mt_VDB_Lit" material on it, and nothing changes - Still black and doesnt respond to the scene directional light. Im using UE 5.0.3

[@JonathanWinbush]

The developer has been doing more changes since this video so its to my understanding stuff has changed I'd look into his documentation

[@planckmax1304]

VDB shadows cannot be cast on the model.

[@romainfusilier8806]

I just upgrade to UE5.1 preview 2, but i can not open my preview 1 project with it. have you a solution plz? Thank you master

[@cr0uchingtiger]

Only issue I'm having, even after playing with all the settings and material settings, is that the clouds don't want to accept ambient light. I can fake it with emission but it looks weird. The clouds want to be grey and shadows black.

[@JonathanWinbush]

This is the old way check out my newer tutorial UE 5.3 has native VDB support now

[@princevasimalla]

I've been searching for this option in unreal since the day I started learning it but didn't find, I had a very big, cinematic Idea of making a 3D motion poster which includes large scale smoke blasts and simulations I had to stop it after knowing unreal couldn't important vdbs but only alembics with lots of limitations :(

[@JonathanWinbush]

The plugin is still in development but is very promising 🤙🏿

[@princevasimalla]

@@JonathanWinbush Yes, wishing everything comes to unreal in future ⚡

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@princevasimalla I'm hoping Epic officially support this plugin or even better buy it out so they can make it apart of UE5

[@princevasimalla]

@@JonathanWinbush hope so friend 🙏❤️

[@krypetr]

Thank you for great video! Did you try to import .vdb sequence from Cinema 4d Pyro. In my case Unreal crashes when I try to load this sequence.

[@JonathanWinbush]

I haven't yet I have to come back to this plugin I havent had time to use it much lately in the latest version

[@pawelbhandari1621]

thank you sir......and does those cloud and tornado are being render with lumen....???

[@JonathanWinbush]

Go in and check it out 🤙🏿

[@gracielabaldini1653]

Buenísimo!!! me has ayudado mucho! gracias

[@JonathanWinbush]

¡Eres muy bienvenido! ¡Asegúrate de suscribirte para más! 🤙🏿

[@keithyakouboff8755]

@@JonathanWinbush And the dude's bilingual too :)

[@JonathanWinbush]

@@keithyakouboff8755 lol google translate 😂😂

[@keithyakouboff8755]

@@JonathanWinbush Excellent

[@lintan4117]

I just heard about vdb and saw your video, thank you so much. I would like to ask you, will vdb consume performance if used in games?

[@JonathanWinbush]

it's to heavy for games they are more for cinematic renders

[@lintan4117]

@@JonathanWinbush Got it, thanks for the reply!

[@love.society]

That's awesome, thanks!

[@lordvandad]

Hi. I'm afraid we cannot use this plugin on macOS yet. Right?? I want a small cloud in my project(created with blender) and so I can't use it. :(( It doesn't look natural without being a volume...

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'm not sure about the mac version as I only have PCs here but maybe check in with the developer he's pretty open on Twitter to answering questions about his plugin

[@iscorlac9598]

hello, very nice vidéo! I have just a problem with the plugin and i don't realy understand. I follow the step for adding a plugin but when i enable it and drag a vdb file on my unreal, i don't have the pop up for importing vdb and the failed import error. If you know why, any help would be welcome!

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yea it's to my understanding the plugin has been updated since this tutorial so I'd look at the documentation to see the changes as I know he updates regulary

[@thomasl97]

thank you for this tuto do you need a rtx GPU to make it work properly ? I tested with my 1080ti unfortunately, I had a big freeze followed by an error message about the gpu

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'm using a 2080ti myself as I'm showing in the tutorial but I think the newer the gpu the more stable I'd imagine but I can't say for a fact

[@thomasl97]

@@JonathanWinbush Thanks for your answer, I also think that with a more recent hardware it should work better. I will continue to test with my "old" gpu but I think I'll switch to a newer gpu soon. Thanks again for the video!

[@jakeperl5857]

In UE 5.02, I cannot find the "VDB Research Actor". There are several other VDB actors, e.g. "VDB Principled Actor", etc., a couple of which I've tried but can't seem to follow what you're doing. Cannot find any info on this actor anywhere, Lol. Any hints?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'd follow up with the developer as he's been actively making changes

[@jakeperl5857]

@@JonathanWinbush Cool, that does give me some direction, because I didn't even realize this actor was specific to this plugin, vs. an Epic thing. Thanks!

[@慕屿麋鹿]

Hello, for the same material, why do different VDB materials have light and shadow, and some have no light and shadow relationship? They all use the default VDB material

[@JonathanWinbush]

It's a bit different now I believe as he's made several changes to the plugin since this tutorial

[@stevenchitwood2146]

can we get an updated tutorial.? i tried following this video and I just cannot get my vdbs working. the setups has changed too much to what this video is showing. I cannot produce any results. for instance, my volumes dont appear at all in the viewport.

[@JonathanWinbush]

The developer is updating at a rapid pace I'd hit him up for the updated documentation but I believe he keeps it pretty up to date as he's been making updates

[@fabsych]

Can i use VDB's from Embergen?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup yup! 🤙🏿

[@arnaudj7585]

Thanks ! :) but no "VDB research actor" on 5.01 ... :( ?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Contact Lambert as I'm not sure what the latest updates are twitter.com/LambertTibo

[@YansRiegel]

Great, thanks!

[@hendriks656]

is thibault lambert's vdb plugin better than 5.3's native VDB plugin?

[@JonathanWinbush]

His plugin doesnt work in the newer versions of Unreal

[@And_l_Wonder]

Awesome!

[@JonathanWinbush]

100%!! 🤙🏿

[@benwil1785]

Hi there, thank you for the tutorial video. I am having an issue trying to install the plugin. I get the error message: Plugin 'SparseVolumetrics' failed to load because module 'VolumeStreamer' could not be found. Please ensure the plugin is properly installed, otehrwise consider disabling the plugin for this project. I am also missing the SparseVolumetrics folder that you have. I enabled the only volumetric plugin available in ue5 and it gives me a bunch of other errors. The following modules are missing or built with a different version: volumeImporter, volumeSequencer, VolumeStreamer, VolumeRuntime. Engine modules cannot be compiled at runtime. Please build through your IDE. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance.

[@JonathanWinbush]

I don't you should contact the developer as this tutorial is older now so there's been some changes

[@benwil1785]

@@JonathanWinbush Thank you Jonathan I will send him a message.

[@TimV777]

the embergen vdb clouds make the background black whenever the cloud comes into the viewport. Any idea why its happening?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I noticed it goes black if I have path tracing on

[@vladasimovic2732]

Huge! Thank you

[@JonathanWinbush]

You're welcome! 🤙🏿

[@notsomeone8830]

Great video! It still appears a bit grainy in the realtime viewport. Is there an option or feature to turn up the quality for the export cinematic?

[@JonathanWinbush]

Yup I'll be doing another tutorial on dialing the settings in but if you follow the developer on Twitter he gives some really good examples of it looking good twitter.com/LambertTibo/status/1514605209833541645

[@maugbo]

You can go to "Volume > Attributes" and increase the Samples Per Pixel.

[@philliptunnicliffe8388]

Ive been playing with this and its great, but I have the problem that the vdbs I import are getting culled by distance and I don't seem to be able to control the range. Did you experience this yourself? Is there a way to set this?

[@JonathanWinbush]

I'd hit up the developer on this as it's still active beta I know every VDB is a bit different in its density but he may have a solution for ya