Help with pyopenvdb installation

[Thomas Ellsworth]

Hello! I am a graduate student who recently started using VDB to transfer motion vectors from a Houdini scene to Python. I was able to get python installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 Linux partition pretty easily just using apt-get python-openvdb. However, the version that comes in is 3.1.0-2 and I'm using Houdini 16 to cache out my VDB volumes.

I've read that setting the environment variable HOUDINI13_VOLUME_COMPATIBILITY to 1 can revert the Houdini files to be compatible with the earlier openVDB, but I just wondered if anyone knew how to get openVDB 3.3+ installed on Ubuntu?

Thanks!

[OpenVDB Support]

FWIW, .vdb files written with OpenVDB 3.3+ are compatible with 3.1 unless they contain point data grids.  You can safely ignore the "unsupported VDB file format (expected version 223 or earlier, got version 224)" warnings.

[Thomas Ellsworth]

Thank you!