Houdini examples zip file

[Douglas Castro]

Hello.

So in the link https://www.openvdb.org/download/ the Houdini examples zip file is basically empty. Is there any other way to get access to these files?

Thank you.

[Jeff Budsberg]

Weird, not sure what's going on with the link.  That said, it it's not resolved shortly, I've owned that file over the years so I can likely dig it up and send it to you directly.

[Douglas Castro]

Hi Jeff,

That would be great. You can send it directly to my email or however means you prefer. Thanks in advance for your help.

I hope this file helps me understanding why the "crawler.vdb" from openvdb website opens directly on Houdini, but the vdb files that I generate don't don't open after hit "File node".

[edward]

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10:02:39 PM UTC-4 bob.exp...@gmail.com wrote:

I hope this file helps me understanding why the "crawler.vdb" from openvdb website opens directly on Houdini, but the vdb files that I generate don't don't open after hit "File node".

Have you checked the error message on the File node when it fails with your own vdb file? There's usually a message that explains why it failed, and you should be able to correlate that to the exceptions thrown in openvdb/io/Archive.cc.

Those examples are pretty old though and I suspect wouldn't help you anyways for the problem you're describing. The file loading of vdb files in Houdini is pretty vanilla, the code can be found in the openvdb github repo here:

https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb/blob/5cb821242f833d78fbd9506c9d5e20e4c7280f32/openvdb_houdini/openvdb_houdini/GEO_VDBTranslator.cc#L205

As a sanity check, you can try loading your own created vdb files using `openvdb::io::Stream` to ensure that there wasn't something else wrong when you created the file.

Cheers,

-Edward

[Jeff Budsberg]

hey Edward, hope all is well! 

I updated it in July 2021 (Houdini 18.5 & OpenVDB 8.0) and I'll likely take another pass at it prior to Siggraph.

best,

Jeff

[Jeff Budsberg]

Just updated the OpenVDB examples HIP (Houdini 19.5 and OpenVDB 9.1) and it's now live on the website.  A few updates throughout, but the big changes are more extrapolation examples, as well a new section for the OpenVDB AX SOP.

[edward]

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for updating the files! I'm sure it'll help with people learning to use OpenVDB.

Cheers,

-Edward