caching source volume

[Hello world]

Hi i have animated noise for my vel in sopland and suppose if i want to cache it out, it cosumes around 140-150mb per frame.even though i use bgeo.gz compression its still high.Is there any way we can optimize this so that it consumes less space.is there any field that could be removed.This is for a fire simulation.Let me know! cheers!!

[bunker]

did you have a look at the Volume Compress SOP?

[Hello world]

@bunker

will it anyway affect the quality of the sim?

[Guest tar]

use it just enough so you don't notice it.

[Hello world]

volumecompress is awesome.sim speed is considerably very well.

[Guest tar]

For even more speed it's worth investing in a Raid, with standard drives, for your sim caches. 

 

It really makes a huge difference  

[Hello world]

any known reason why my sim flames are blurry in render.Does volcompress have impact on renders.Div size is 0.045.Still I am not getting a perfect result of what i want.

I want my flames to be crispy and in high quality(have temp diffusion as low as 0.005 and also played wit vel in source volumes

 

Do i need to bump up the pixel samples or reduce the volume step size to get the image look good?

Edited April 30, 2014 by Hello world