Houdini 20.0 Nodes Geometry nodes

VDB Merge geometry node

Combines many VDB volumes in various ways.

Since 19.0

See volumes for an explanation of standard volumes and OpenVDB volumes.

Unlike the VDB Combine SOP, this provides a multi-input so can merge more than two grids without needing an additional merge SOP.

Float and double SDF VDBs and fog volume VDBs can be merged, all other VDB grids are left unchanged.

Grids with different transforms will be resampled to match the first VDB in the collation group.

Parameters

Group

A subset of the input VDBs to be modified (see specifying volumes)

Collation

The criteria under which groups of grids are merged. In addition to these collation options, only grids with the same class (fog volume, level set, etc) and value type (float, int, etc) are merged.

Name

Collate VDBs with the same grid name.

Primitive Number

Collate first primitives from each input, then second primitives from each input, etc.

None

Collate all VDBs (provided they have the same class and value type).

Interpolation

The type of interpolation to be used when resampling one VDB to match the other’s transform

Nearest neighbor interpolation is fast but can introduce noticeable sampling artifacts. Quadratic interpolation is slow but high-quality. Linear interpolation is intermediate in speed and quality.

Fog VDBs

Merge operation for Fog VDBs.

None

Leaves input fog VDBs unchanged.

Add

Generate the sum of all fog VDBs within the same collation.

SDF VDBs

Merge operation for SDF VDBs.

None

Leaves input SDF VDBs unchanged.

SDF Union

Generate the union of all signed distance fields within the same collation.

SDF Intersection

Generate the intersection of all signed distance fields within the same collation.

See also

Geometry nodes