Supported platforms: Windows 10 / 11 with DirectX
Supported Houdini versions: 20.5
To install ZibraVDB for Houdini plugin copy folders from the archive to C:\\Users\\<Username>\\Documents\\houdini20.5 directory.
Before using it you need to download the core library by pressing the “Download Library” button inside any ZibraVDB node.
You can find a button to download library in any ZibraVDB node
For activation add path to license key to houdini.env or system environment variables:
ZIBRAVDB_LICENSE_KEY = "path\\to\\zibravdb_license_key.txt"
ZibraVDB FileCache is the main node when using ZibraVDB. It works in the same way as the standard FileCache node but it caches VDB sequences in compressed .zibravdb format.
This node utilized ZibraVDB Compress and ZibraVDB Decompress nodes under the hood.
ZibraVDB Compress SOP node saves VDB frames into compressed .zibravdb format.
Ensure that the input graph has VDB primitives. You can convert volumes using the VDB Convert node.