Another feature request: Volumetrics

Pastor · Post by **Pastor** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:35 pm

Volumeteric materials or objects
Ease the creation of clouds, fire, smoke, etc.
Particles work extremely well in creating these objects up to a point but after that they need help. A volumetric system would really help to push the particle system and Blender as a whole over the top.
POV-Ray shows how well clouds can look with a volumetric material.

Caronte · Post by **Caronte** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:40 pm

Someone is working on it now, be patient

Hoehrer · Post by **Hoehrer** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:19 pm

Caronte wrote:Someone is working on it now, be patient

Just to mention this link here as well:
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/ ... _19th_2006

And just to quote Letterrip from the elysiun forum:

It isn't planned for 2.42, so who knows when a patch will be available...

LetterRip

Werner

ZanQdo · Post by **ZanQdo** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:49 am

Just to point aout that you can use POV-Ray and write a volumetric shader in Blender very easily now:

http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58027

bmud · Post by **bmud** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:32 pm

Bump! I'm very interested in volumetrics. Especially now that the node system is in place, I would like to know...

1) How far along is volumetric rendering?
2) Could material nodes make an equivalent?

These posts and the wiki page are nearly a year old. I think it is a great time to revive interest in volumetrics. At this time, it's the only lacking rendering feature that I can see.

LazyCoder · Post by **LazyCoder** » Wed May 16, 2007 6:22 am

Yea and I wanna blow stuff up!
- Hard bodies CHECK
- Soft bodies (for windows blowing up) CHECK
- Fire balls... what the hell is this? Are all these fuzzy dots supposed to be fire?

EDIT: I just realized how annoying I'm being. Sorry.

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Wed May 16, 2007 10:02 am

The volume/fluid renderer will also need an interface. Preferably one that is understandable. Maya has marvalous fluids, alas you need a phd degree to go beyond the "import fireball".

N86 · Post by **N86** » Thu May 17, 2007 12:23 am

Wow. This would fit one of my wishes. I'd really like to see this happen. The old examples in the wiki look like a great start.