Smoke sim transfer

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Is there a way to transfer a baked simulation from one file to another?

Useless info:

I have a good processor Laptop with a fair graphics card and a trash processor Desktop with a great graphics card. I do all my rendering on my computer while i do all of my modeling, simulating, etc. on my laptop. I made an animation on my laptop that I am ready to render on my computer, however, I can’t transfer it properly to my computer, and I don’t want to simulate it on my computer because it would one, take forever and 2, probably kill the poor thing.

2

Hi, what do you mean? just save the baked sim file and transfer to your desktop computer either with and external drive or third party file transfer.

3

If your laptop is better why don’t you render it there??

4

Smoke Domain of a baked simulation can be linked to another file.
If you only use library overrides to move, transform it ; you don’t really risk to overwrite its cache.
If you append the domain ; that can be easy to make a mistake and erase the cache.

The safest way to avoid that, is to create a Volume object ( Add menu > Volume > Import OpenVDB ).
Select all fluid_data_*.vdb files in cache_fluid_number/data/ folder.
OpenVDB is format used for smoke simulation cache, by default.
Density grid and all attributes should be correctly imported.
But you will still need to link or append material of Smoke Domain, in order to render it, the same way.

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My laptop renders at a 4th of the speed of my computer. My computer could render an image 4 times before my laptop would render it once

6

I thought your laptop was faster

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In every way except the graphics card, which greatly assists in rendering.

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Thanks for the help. I went with the external drive option, but I’m going to save your advice. I’m confident I’ll need it later.