topic Volume not showing in viewport. in Bifrost Forum

Volume not showing in viewport.

ayushbakshi98 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:37:33 GMT

Hey amazing people, 😁

I was happily learning from Bifrost bootcamp (the office won't give me Houdini) and it was going great for a few days. Then Maya realized that it's an industry standard and volumes cease to render on viewport 2.0

In general, getting volume to display is finicky, sometimes it works but when I manipulate it like the trainer doing in this video, all I get is a mess.

Autodesk likes to advertise that viewport is getting better but for me it's still a pile of...

Maya 2024.1

Bifrost 2.7.0.1

RTX 2080ti, Driver 536.99

Re: Volume not showing in viewport.

ayushbakshi98 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 15:13:49 GMT

Alright, Found it.
It was the difference b/w "Use default Material" v/s "Textured" in viewport menu.. (well.. that was dumb 😅)

So fog/levelset not being visible in viewport is solved..
Only glitchy levelset preview (mentioned in screenshot) is there.

Re: Volume not showing in viewport.

sepu6 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 17:44:20 GMT

As it is mentioned on the screenshot is a bug, which will be fixed. If you render it works fine or if you want to convert to mesh, it is fine as well.

Re: Volume not showing in viewport.

morten.bojsen-hansen — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 19:21:02 GMT

@ayushbakshi98 When working with signed distance and noise it is better to add the noise onto the distance values rather than using multiply which can cause unexpected artifacts. The workflow shown in the video is, unfortunately, not the best.