Hello all,

I woud like to blur a volume, much like the “gas blur” dop node does, but preferbably in sops. I do not need any time dependency.

Is there an (easy) way in the volume mix or volume vop operators to do something like that?

Thanks,

Koen

Unfortunately there is a bit of a divide between the SOP based tools and the DOP based tools, with the DOP ones having more options.

What you can do in more recent builds of 9.5 is use the Timeless option of the Dopnetwork to remove the timedependency in the DOP sim, allowing you to use the blur node much like a SOP node, just with a lot of data moving overhead.

Using the Volume VOP SOP you can also roll your own blur by invoking volumesample() on the input. You need to do volumesamplefromfile and point it to an opabsolute/path/to/node. If you look at the POP Advect By Volumes you can see a way to streamline this setup using an object merge to translate traditional paths into a fixed path for VOPs to do an op: reference to.

Thanks Jeff,

I think I'll try to wrap the dop solution in an otl.

Cheers,
Koen