Initial implementation of an OpenVDB based particle mesher modifier.
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Authored by Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) on Jan 18 2015, 7:02 PM.

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Lukas Tönne (lukastoenne)
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton)
Sergey Sharybin (sergey)

Summary

This is to be considered WIP as there are a few todos left. I'm uploading this here as a reference of my current work as discussed with Ton in IRC (easier than setting up a github repo).

OpenVDB should be compiled and installed separately in order to test the patch. (Connect with me if you have any trouble.)

A crude documentation for the modifier can be found here: http://www.pasteall.org/56206/text. For now, I keep it as a branch (on my computer) of the blender manual.

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Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) updated this revision to Diff 3193.Jan 18 2015, 7:02 PM

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) retitled this revision from to Initial implementation of an OpenVDB based particle mesher modifier..

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) updated this object.

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) updated this object.Jan 18 2015, 9:46 PM

Lapineige added a subscriber: Lapineige.Jan 18 2015, 10:19 PM

Pretty huge patch, would take a bit to go into all details. Having some sort of user-side documentation (what it actually does, how to use, what to expect, etc) would be handy. Preferably page in our wiki.blender.org :)

Derek Barker (lordodin) added a subscriber: Derek Barker (lordodin).Jan 21 2015, 2:45 PM

Jesse Sutherland (SynaGl0w) added a subscriber: Jesse Sutherland (SynaGl0w).Jan 21 2015, 3:52 PM

@Sergey Sharybin (sergey), creating a page on wiki.blender.org seems fine, but I'll need wiki access. I asked for it, but they have not really understood the request:

The old Blender Wiki website now no longer accepts new registrations.

The new Blender manual website is accepting new users.

If you wish to participate with the new Blender manual work then
please see the following link:

http://www.blender.org/documentation/contribute

I asked for documenting my coding work...

@Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich), that's not quite good. I'll talk to the guys who are in charge of registration in IRC.

One of the guys there is @Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) actually, so let's poke him here as well.

ronan ducluzeau (zeauro) added a subscriber: ronan ducluzeau (zeauro).Jan 25 2015, 2:49 PM

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) updated this object.Jan 25 2015, 10:00 PM

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) edited edge metadata.

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) updated this object.

Merge branch 'master' into vdb_part_mesher
Add some comments, and rename some files
Code cleanup
Modifications to the build process, add a 'WITH_MOD_PARTMESHER' flag
Merge branch 'master' into vdb_part_mesher

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) mentioned this in T35565: MSMesher,particle mesher addon.Feb 6 2015, 9:03 AM

boris cohen (bobizib) added a subscriber: boris cohen (bobizib).Feb 23 2015, 7:43 PM

Change particle code according to Lukas' comments (to be continued...)
Cleanup: rename *_right -> *_cutter to follow some VDB 'convention'
Fix merge conflicts
Merge branch 'master' into vdb_part_mesher
Add support for lattice deform, and reserve the size of the particle list vector when constructing instances of the class
Include OpenVDB version in system info
Merge branch 'master' into vdb_part_mesher
Don't show the modifier's UI if with build without neither OpenVDB or the modifier itself
Merge branch 'master' into vdb_part_mesher
Avoid iterating twice over the filter list to get the current one.
Some cleanup to the level set ops.
Fix for level set filters not being freed when closing Blender or

Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) added a reviewer: Lukas Tönne (lukastoenne).Mar 5 2015, 9:45 AM

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) mentioned this in D1308: WIP patch for OpenVDB integration in Blender and Cycles.May 20 2015, 4:20 PM

Severely refactored the code
Added an OpenVDBPrimitive for easier handling in the C code
Added some quick way of drawing the underlying VDB tree

JT Nelson (jta) added a subscriber: JT Nelson (jta).Jun 4 2015, 5:01 PM

Ted Schundler (tschundler) added a subscriber: Ted Schundler (tschundler).Jun 23 2015, 10:37 PM

mathieu menuet (bliblubli) awarded a token.Aug 16 2015, 11:48 AM

Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) added a subscriber: Aaron Carlisle (Blendify).Aug 19 2015, 8:38 PM

andreas atteneder (atti) added a subscriber: andreas atteneder (atti).Dec 10 2015, 2:09 PM

Closing this, as talked with Campbell months ago, the approach used by this patch does not fit with the current modifier system.

but it would be perfect for the object_nodes branch ? :)

Kévin Dietrich (kevindietrich) mentioned this in D1721: Implementation of an OpenVDB based cache system for smoke simulations..Jan 11 2016, 8:35 AM

Derek Barker (lordodin) awarded a token.Jan 26 2016, 10:45 PM

Hello guys,

I would like to aks you about Open VDB, where to find it, how to installed it, and because I'm not a programmer - I can't understand - are you working for a separate add-on integration of it, or as part of regular Blender Installation package??

Thank you@!

@Ivaylo Gogov (ivaydesign), sorry for the delayed response.

This is a patch that needs to be applied on top of the Blender sources, and then compiled, etc... OpenVDB can be installed through the latest install_deps.sh script if you are on Linux (see here). For windows or mac, you can get the pre-compiled library from https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/BL/

Also, a more recent version of the patch can be found in my github repository (openvdb_mesher branch).

Karlis Stigis (karlisstigis) added a subscriber: Karlis Stigis (karlisstigis).Nov 11 2017, 5:45 AM

Martin Felke (scorpion81) mentioned this in D4980: Revival of the OpenVDB Particle Mesher Modifier.May 30 2019, 5:11 PM