I feel very much like you (and sozap and no doubt many others) do on this topic.
I feel there might only be a few people at this point that understand the impact of these features. Most likely Houdini folk. ![]()
I’ve been trying to implement some Houdini tutorials but not always succeeding (especially not with volumes/grids). To be honest I still find grids fairly confusing.
I have been wondering if it would be cool to create a thread dedicated to the new volume/grid nodes and discover them together? Not unlike the Geometry Nodes mega thread we had in the past that I enjoyed immensely.
Some resources I’ve found that seem to go a bit deeper into the new grids:
Bradley animation channel (has a few on this specific topic now)
3D Singh VFX (usually only promotes his own nodes but this seems to be an exception)
In addition I really like Entegma as a channel which is primarily (but not exclusively) Houdini. He has no recent tutorials on Blender grids but I do hope he will at some point.
I’d like to try to replicate this in Blender for example: