Steven_Fayers | Visual Artist

VDB Cloudscapes fast summary from my first year using EmberGen beta with @LambertTibo's excellent Unreal NanoVDB plugin. Full 2 min version on YouTube tomorrow. Next: getting into V1.0. Many ideas in the pipeline 🪐. #Unreal #JangaFX #EmberGen #VDB #Cloudscapes #ESCreators #Space

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

@FakeSmileNFT No worries glad you got it working :)

@steven_fayers Thank you very much for getting back to me. Appreciate it. I've got it working now, I think I had some issue with my version of 5.1. Will definitely check out your process post in Discord. Thank you!

@steven_fayers Hi Steven, hope you're well. Looks like you're creating some interesting work using VDBs. For the life of me I just can't get them to work. I don't suppose there any obvious gotchas using Lamberts plug-in? Thank you for your time + any advice would be super...

@LambertTibo This looks amazing 🤩 Glad you are still finding the time to work on it! Been too occupied elsewhere to be able to explore yet..

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

@carefreeastro Wow, this is stunning! The modern equivalent of the kind of photos that inspired me so much as a kid to be interested in astronomy. Thanks for posting 😃.

A 2 pane, 20h mosaic of the enormous Cygnus Loop supernova remnant, and almost got it all in 😝 HQ/Detail - astrob.in/trizkb #astrophotography

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

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

@RuiHuang_art @LambertTibo Thanks!😀

@steven_fayers @LambertTibo Beautiful😍

VDB Cloudscapes fast summary from my first year using EmberGen beta with @LambertTibo's excellent Unreal NanoVDB plugin. Full 2 min version on YouTube tomorrow. Next: getting into V1.0. Many ideas in the pipeline 🪐. #Unreal #JangaFX #EmberGen #VDB #Cloudscapes #ESCreators #Space

@GerardDunleavy @LambertTibo Thanks :)

@steven_fayers @LambertTibo Really cool work!