Hi,

Is there a simple way to export a smoke simulation made in Houdini to 3dsmax ?

Thanks,

Lewul.

There's a few ways… I believe fumefx now supports f3d files, and though Houdini comes with source for a f3d plugin, I think you have to compile it yourself.

You could also create a particle for each voxel of your grid, sample the data you need and export those particles to krakatoa…

A Python prt exporter:
http://dhel-vfx.blogspot.ca/2010/05/houdini-pop-to-krakatoa-prt.html [dhel-vfx.blogspot.ca]

A C++ prt exporter:
https://github.com/FictionIO/PRTRop [github.com]

Thanks, I will check that. (it seems a bit complicated)

Ah, yes. You asked for simple… unfortunately there are no simple ways. The python otl is the easiest, but will also be slow with large voxel counts.

Someone told me about the openVDB… Is it a good (and simple ) solution ?

Nope, Openvdb has nothing to do with 3ds max until somebody makes a plugin that supports it.

Oh, okay.