Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Jason covers the difference between fog volumes and level sets, and how volumes work in Autodesk Bifrost for Maya. Expand this description for download links and more.

00:00 - Intro
00:07 - Volumes
00:45 - Mesh to volume
02:00 - Voxels
02:35 - Tile tree
03:00 - Fog density
04:00 - Level sets
04:20 - Resolution mode
06:10 - Voxel field
06:45 - scalar fields and scalar field scope
08:08 - Level set again
09:00 - One is foggy, the other one tells you the distance
09:25 - Working with level sets
20:00 - Masking volumes (SDFs)

Download the scenes, compounds, slides, lesson plans and other files to follow along or adapt for your own curriculum: areadownloads.autodesk.com/wdm/maya/bifrost_bootcamp_lesson_4_files.zip

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