volume displacement based of UV

[qazwsdc]

Hello everyone,

Let's say in SOP I make a vdb density volume from a sphere which have uv attribute. And in "VDB from polygon" node I inherit that UV to a VDB field.

And then in the material, I want inherit that UV field and make volume displacement using a jpg tex based of that UV 

when I hit render , the result looks strange (Bottom right corner) regardless I rotate the uv position

Here is the file and tex

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shu.zip

Edited July 31, 2021 by qazwsdc

[underscoreus]

It happens because the displacement is hitting the maximum bounds of your volume in that area. You'll need to add more exterior bound voxels to the volume and might have to add a "VDB activate" node after the "VDB From Polygons" node and increase the "Expand" option.

[Atom]

There is something else wrong in that file as well. When I supply a simple checkerboard black and white image, the UVs only work for the top half.

 

Using toNDC as a replacement for UVs kind of works. It clearly illustrates that the bind of UVs doesn't seem to work. You can get camera facing displacement that way, however.

 

Edited August 1, 2021 by Atom

[qazwsdc]

3 hours ago, underscoreus said:

It happens because the displacement is hitting the maximum bounds of your volume in that area. You'll need to add more exterior bound voxels to the volume and might have to add a "VDB activate" node after the "VDB From Polygons" node and increase the "Expand" option.

I tried , but it doesn't work

[qazwsdc]

1 hour ago, Atom said:

There is something else wrong in that file as well. When I supply a simple checkerboard black and white image, the UVs only work for the top half.

 

Using toNDC as a replacement for UVs kind of works. It clearly illustrates that the bind of UVs doesn't seem to work. You can get camera facing displacement that way, however.

 

Yes toNDC is a good way to achieve this displacement effect BUT... it ONLY works when camera don't move, and the object must be static.

In other words the displacement will move when camera move. That's not what I need.