Testing shadows with VDBs. Next is shadow casting. I'm trying minimal and cleanest UE source code modifications possible to be able to read shadow information in Plugins (and hopefully send PR).

Drop ship landing clip from my short 'Dawn's Landing', my challenge entry for the Kitbash 3D challenge Mission to Minerva. Using the #UnrealEngine #nanovdb plugin by Thibault Lambert with volumetric clouds. See the whole short in my previous post.

EmberGen 1.0 is now available!! Grab the latest release by running your installed version or by going to jangafx.com/try 🎉 4K Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=EJgA0L… Watch our live stream: youtube.com/watch?v=R10whx… #realtimeVFX

Last year I was asked by director Tim Main to help on Black Wing- part of Epic's ANZ #UnrealEngine short film challenge. Here are 2 shots I worked on, doing the massive smoke plumes & lightning. #JangaFX added a shot to their #EmberGen 1.0 release trailer☁️ #vdb #3d #Cloudscape

Adding support for VDB shadows. Opaque shadows only for now, I will maybe try Fourier opacity maps later if find the time. This is a very sparse volume btw. #unreal #nanovdb #openvdb #realtimevfx #thepixellab

Added support for Unreal Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) to improve VDB rendering. Right column is showing previous behavior.

Teaser (I should probably say spoiler) for next VDB feature & video. #UE5 #realtimevfx #UnrealVDB

My local build of #UnrealVDB now supports all lights and Lumen GI. Having GI really grounds the VDBs in the environment and adds so much details IMO. #unrealengine #realtimeVFX #NanoVDB

Animated VDB Cloudscape made in EmberGen 1.0 and rendered in Unreal, with Thibault Lambert's NanoVDB plugin. Been a while since I did a random thing like this in an afternoon. ☁️ #UnrealEngine5 #EmberGen #NanoVDB #Cloudscape

Drifting... above a planetary cloudscape. WIP animation utilising assets from #bigmediumsmall_  Rendered in #UE5 with Thibault Lambert's #NanoVDB plugin. Cloudscape made in #Embergen 1.0. Music from #EpidemicSound.

Snowy cloudscape, with wacky formations. Some R&D time led to me to combine limited aspects of Ultra Dynamic Sky & sparse VDB clouds. Second shot shows clearer definition than VDBs themselves allow without being impossible to load. Music: Epidemic Sound. #UE5 #VDB #Cloudscape

Cloudscape experiments with UDS and Nano VDB. Original clouds made in EmberGen. Screenshots from Unreal Engine 5. #UnrealEngine5 #vdb #3Dartist #EmberGen

Unreal 5.3 Preview is out so it's now time to test VDB import with Sparse Volume Textures (SVT) and Heterogeneous Volumes. Combined with Embergen exported simulations this is 🔥.

Cloudscape of #UE5 #VDBs and a sprinkling of spacecraft from #BigMediumSmall, in amongst gargantuan clouds of a turbulent atmosphere. Quite like how this turned out so perhaps I'll put together a small sequence of similar moving stills to some music.

Using some new assets from #BigMediumSmall_ and a resized cloud simmed in #embergen , rendered in #UnrealEngine .

Experimenting with the alpha of #GeoGen from #JangaFX. Some kind of a fractured #moon with highly improbable thin atmosphere and very high cliffs.

2023 - it's almost done, on to the next one...🔊🤘🔊

I'm excited to announce my new plugin "SVT Helper", now available on the Unreal Marketplace. It's a unified solution to use SVTs/VDBs with Volumetric Clouds and Volumetric Fog, in Editor, with Sequencer and in Game. RTs are really appreciated ! TYSM unrealengine.com/marketplace/en…

Cloudscape, frozen cloud islands even. Made with EmberGen & LiquiGen, with a bit of Houdini and rendered in Unreal Engine. #unrealengine #embergen #vdb