karen Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 I can save to bgeo.sc then once the simulation is cached I can read it with a file and convert to vdb, this takes longer (two steps). The initial sim with bgeo.sc is already using maximum RAM If I add a convert to vdb before the filecache, does this step take up more memory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) I have started using .VDB instead of .bgeo.sc for all my volume work. Just write directly to .VDB. Give it a try. If you are at maximum ram, and the convert node throws you over the limit, increase your divsize by a little to gain back the memory that you lost. Edited May 17, 2020 by Atom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anim Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 I can't imagine that you are using all your ram for a single frame of the sim, but anyway you better do some processing before you save the file, either Volume Compress or convert to vdb or both, so if your target format is .vdb then cache directly to .vdb The new Pyro Solver Sop or Pyro Postprocess have options for the vdb conversion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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