I would like to know how to upres a Pyro Simulation in Houdini 14. I have seen some tutorials done in former versions which showed the workflow but now I'm a bit stuck. I have set up my sim starting with one of the shelf tools (Flames) and adjusted the settings to my liking. I than noticed in the container tools the Up-res one and opened up the manual for it. There is written:
The network created by the tools on the Pyro FX shelf tab create the up-res nodes automatically
But I can't find them. Can somebody help me with this. Is this is a “Bug” in the preset? Should I just use the the Up-res shelf tool and promt it to the Container? Are there any magic numbers for the Division size in the Up-res network? Any other helpful tips?
Yeah, any mention of Up-Res should be updated, because no one uses it any more (afiak? I could be wrong!), because Pyro/Volumes are so much more efficient than they were at that time.
Maybe there is a bug too, in the up-res tools, that's gone unnoticed since no one's using them?
I'm not at all familiar with Up-Res, just sharing what I know (or suspect I know!).
Interessting. I would love to hear what the sidefx engineers would say about that. Is it still necessary to uprez a sim or are pcs nowadays fast enough to handle small domain sizes without the additional step.
I would say computers will never be fast enough to do high quality sims. Before we were working at 640x480 resolution, then 1920x1080 now more and more 4K and then 360 VR at 12 288 x 6 144 and in the future probably hi-rez VR in stereo so 2 times 400 000 x 20 000! who knows…
We will always need uprez or anything that could accelerate the process.
But I don't know pyro yet, I'm learning it like you but I can tell you I will look at uprez for sure.
