FFX Import

FFX Import - Houdini 16.5 to Houdini 18

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FFX import has been crafted from a real need to handle FumeFX VDB caches inside SideFX Houdini in a production environment for Feature film, TV commercials and video games. After over an year of development and continuos refinement it is today a robust, reliable, fast, complete and only solution of this kind. It will allow you to handle every FumeFX VDB type of cahces with easy while keeping the work load fast, managable and fun! Every tool’s functionality will work in all modes and modality: Single FumeFX VBD sequence, Sub Frames, NSIMS and NSIMasONE. It include a very robust and smart loading mechanism, smart VDB merge, fields shuffling and field renaming. The Voxel Data Display, if exported, it will be a sort of portable FumeFX cache format to load it back into the companion VDD import HDA, for fast and quick handling of the FumeFX VDB cache it represent, and much more...

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	FFX Import
Author:	Alessandro Nardini
Version:	10
Asset Type:	Sop node
Dependencies:	None
File Size:	1.73MB
Created:	April 19, 2020, 12:05 a.m.
Terms of Use:	Standard License
Compatibility:	Houdini 16.5 to Houdini 18
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Version 10 - April 19, 2020 -

Cosmetic enhancement and last known minor bug fixes.
Version 9 - April 9, 2020 -

Faster loading mechanism with "next file load prediction". ( 2× and up depenting on hardware ). It’s especially great during flipbook preview when the loading of the filename is sequential.

Faster VDD (Voxel Data Display ) computation thanks to "Max values" prediction. ( 1.5× and up depending on hardware )
Version 8 - March 31, 2020 -

VDD mode is now almost fully implemented in openCL. There is a ~2× and up performance gain ( depending on hardware ) compared with the VEX implementation.

VDD can now be exported from any HDA’s output. As a result, and with the implementation of openCL, the preview VDD caches aren’t compatible anymore with the latest VDDimport HDA (v1.0.02); Sorry for the inconvenience but its’s for the better.

Little optimizations there and there.
Version 7 - March 26, 2020 -

Fixed price.
Version 5 - March 24, 2020 -

Updated Help/Documentation with FumeFX VDB Demo caches download links for testing purpose. Demo caches include one for each FFXimport mode, including NSIMs.

Info tab now shows when you are in VDD mode.
Version 4 - March 17, 2020 -

Improved VDD NSIM data packing.

Initial openCL.

Updated help/documentation.
Version 3 - March 15, 2020 -

Removed HDA "write permission denied" warning messages for the locked versions of this asset. ( Apprentice included. )

Updated HDA Help.
Version 2 - March 14, 2020 -

Clean up contexts and features update.