VDBWizard: Advanced VDB creation tool for Daz Studio [Commercial]

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,751

    You probably already know. VDBs are terrible slow while rendering in Daz Studio, unless you have a supercomputer.

    I already abandoned all my already purchased VDBs assets, because of that.

     

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595
    edited May 24

    VDBWizard provides users with the tools to make VDBs that "fit" you scene. 

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  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    Artini said:

    You probably already know. VDBs are terrible slow while rendering in Daz Studio, unless you have a supercomputer.

    I already abandoned all my already purchased VDBs assets, because of that.

     

    Most VDBs made for Daz Studio are optimized for general use. When you can make your own VDBs you can tailor them to fit your processing needs and not be locked into something made for general use.

    Being able to adjust the voxel and radii sizes of VDBWizard's VDBs yourself means you could maybe start using them in your own limited way again.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 41,003

    I must admit, while I haven't used VDBs much, when I did, I didn't have any issues doing an animation with lots of instanced VDB clouds

  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,836

    i never had problems with VDBs  bought on the daz store. I had a 2080ti and now a 4090 for context!

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,751

    lilweep said:

    i never had problems with VDBs  bought on the daz store. I had a 2080ti and now a 4090 for context!

    That explains a lot. 4090 is great for VDBs. Enjoy wink 

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I must admit, while I haven't used VDBs much, when I did, I didn't have any issues doing an animation with lots of instanced VDB clouds

    Yup! There are clouds in VDBWizard! laugh

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    lilweep said:

    i never had problems with VDBs  bought on the daz store. I had a 2080ti and now a 4090 for context!

    I am not sure if way back my 1080ti could handle VDBs but a 4090 can handle just about anything! smiley 

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    Artini said:

    lilweep said:

    i never had problems with VDBs  bought on the daz store. I had a 2080ti and now a 4090 for context!

    That explains a lot. 4090 is great for VDBs. Enjoy wink 

    The way I work is I usually create my scene and adjust lighting and add VDBs last. VDBs are almost always the thing that pushes my video ram over, because they are always last. So I have to ask, do I need all the extra stuff or my VDB? I usually can find things in the scene I don’t really need there so my VDBs can fit.  smiley 

  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,751

    The problem with my laptop and RTX 4070 is whenever I add VDB to the scene, the rendering time is so long,

    that I have no patience enough to wait for the rendering end, so I skip using VDBs and I am enjoying using Daz Studio

    with the other scenes.

     

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595
    edited May 28

    Artini said:

    The problem with my laptop and RTX 4070 is whenever I add VDB to the scene, the rendering time is so long,

    that I have no patience enough to wait for the rendering end, so I skip using VDBs and I am enjoying using Daz Studio

    with the other scenes.

     

    Many Daz Store VDBs come in both high- and low-resolution versions. VDBWizard can output both very high and very low-resolution versions and the camera culling feature and ground contouring allows for less of a voxel footprint. Would that be enough in your case? Well, some scenes are comprised of only a shallow VDB, a plane, a figure and a HDRI.

    If the VDB fits into your graphics card, a 4070 should rip right through it. I would say 20 minutes to an hour tops for a 2 or 4k image?

     

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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,751

    EZ3DTV said:

    Artini said:

    The problem with my laptop and RTX 4070 is whenever I add VDB to the scene, the rendering time is so long,

    that I have no patience enough to wait for the rendering end, so I skip using VDBs and I am enjoying using Daz Studio

    with the other scenes.

     

    Many Daz Store VDBs come in both high- and low-resolution versions. VDBWizard can output both very high and very low-resolution versions and the camera culling feature and ground contouring allows for less of a voxel footprint. Would that be enough in your case? Well, some scenes are comprised of only a shallow VDB, a plane, a figure and a HDRI.

    If the VDB fits into your graphics card, a 4070 should rip right through it. I would say 20 minutes to an hour tops for a 2 or 4k image?

     

    Glad, you pointed it up. 20 minutes of rendering is too long for me.

     

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595
    edited May 29

    Artini said:

    EZ3DTV said:

    Artini said:

    The problem with my laptop and RTX 4070 is whenever I add VDB to the scene, the rendering time is so long,

    that I have no patience enough to wait for the rendering end, so I skip using VDBs and I am enjoying using Daz Studio

    with the other scenes.

     

    Many Daz Store VDBs come in both high- and low-resolution versions. VDBWizard can output both very high and very low-resolution versions and the camera culling feature and ground contouring allows for less of a voxel footprint. Would that be enough in your case? Well, some scenes are comprised of only a shallow VDB, a plane, a figure and a HDRI.

    If the VDB fits into your graphics card, a 4070 should rip right through it. I would say 20 minutes to an hour tops for a 2 or 4k image?

     

    Glad, you pointed it up. 20 minutes of rendering is too long for me.

     

    That's 20 minutes only when the scene also has two or more Genesis 9 figures, many highly detailed props and a detailed environment, an Ultra Scenery landscape and biome with many thousands of instances and an 8-24k HDRI with massive mesh lighting. A scene like this can take 2-8 hours to create, so 20 minutes to get a butter-smooth and perfectly transparent VDB is appropriate. 

    Road of Mists

    There are 5,000 individual VDBWizard VDBs in this scene culled to the camera frustrum and it took 10 minutes to render up to around 20,000 iterations at 4k on a 5090.

    Road of Mists.jpg
    2000 x 1125 - 191K
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  • ArtiniArtini Posts: 10,751

    You have great graphics card 5090, so you apparently adjusting your products to it.

    Have fun developing your further assets.

     

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    Artini said:

    You have great graphics card 5090, so you apparently adjusting your products to it.

    Have fun developing your further assets.

     

    I try and adjust my products so all users can use them with their own hardware, within reason. 

    Not all features are avalable but enough scalability, graceful degradation, level of detail (LOD) and accessibility to make it worthwhile. smiley

  • RandWulfRandWulf Posts: 224

    Looking forward to this.

  • EZ3DTVEZ3DTV Posts: 1,595

    RandWulf said:

    Looking forward to this.

    Thanks RandWulf, you won't be disappointed and it will be updated over time as users request new features. Buy it once, own it forever... Coming soon! wink

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