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How OpenVDB improves Blender volumes

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How OpenVDB improves Blender volumes

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- [Instructor] Over the course of the next few weeks, I want to talk about all the awesome new features that just came out in Blender 2.9. Now, as I'm going through this process, I want to encourage you, the viewer, to go to LinkedIn Learning and check out the new QA section that's inside these videos. As we're going along, if you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions, please go ahead and write it in here, as I'm checking it out every couple of days. All right, now let's take a look at one of my favorite new features that was added to Blender 2.9, OpenVDB. At first you may ask yourself, what is a VDB? It is a collection of voxel data that you can bring in from other software like Houdini or EmberGen. Those programs are really awesome at generating simulations like fire, wind, or smoke. However, you have to render them in those programs. With OpenVDB, however, you can export it from Houdini and bring that…

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