turbulence FD | x-particles - case studies
X-Particles | Redshift Rain simulation
This scene was created to simply setup up and render something with Xparticles and see how it blends with the Redshift features. The goal was to simply cover a normal production workflow, creating draft animations, setting up the cache for the particles, rendering them in several different ways via Xp generators or Redshift object tags and see which solution is the best and determine in which scenario using one instead of the other. In the meantime, I was learning more about displacement maps in Redshift and also the very clever subdivision surface feature, seeing how to manipulate the range values to get very nice water dripping along the mesh and finding a good balance between this and the amount of subdivisions.
Turbulence-FD | Redshift Smoke simulation
The main goal for this scene was to render something using Turbulence FD and Redshift and use the result as a reference for all my upcoming work involving smoke. Volumes in Redshift are a complicate thing to understand since the results aren't looking the same depending on either the TFD container is used or an open VDB file sequence. For this test render I have decided to focus on learning how to work with the Redshift Volume shader directly from the TFD container, understand in which way the range affects the volume, and how different it is from using the scatter or absorption color ramp.
Turbulence-FD | Redshift Cloud generator
This shot is my first attempt at creating a large scale cloud scene. I went through a very simple workflow to quickly shape my clouds and simulate the smoke with Turbulence FD before converting everything into open VDB files that Redshift could use to speed up my render instead of having to load up each TFD container. The cloud structure itself was generated from a mograph cloner instancing several spheres with random scale and position. A displacer was applied on top of it to randomize further the emission surface and, from there, create several unique clouds to fill the scene.
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