OpenVDB Installation

OpenVDB Codes
[0] OpenVDB Code Examples https://www.openvdb.org/documentation/doxygen/codeExamples.html

[1] pyopenvdb volume codes https://www.openvdb.org/documentation/doxygen/python.html

[3] https://python.hotexamples.com/examples/pyopenvdb/-/createLinearTransform/python-createlineartransform-function-examples.html

More:
[1] Light, Sound modeling http://gamma.web.unc.edu/software/
[2] OpenVDB Slices to VDB https://github.com/tody411/OpenVDB-Samples
 

Resources:

[0] OpenVDB https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openvdb

For Enable pyOpenVDB (main CMakeLists.txt)

option(OPENVDB_BUILD_PYTHON_MODULE "Build the pyopenvdb Python module" ON)
 

For Enable Viewer

cmd/CMakeLists.txt

option(OPENVDB_BUILD_VDB_VIEW "Build vdb_view" ON)

#Others

option(OPENVDB_BUILD_VDB_PRINT "Build vdb_print" ON)
option(OPENVDB_BUILD_VDB_LOD "Build vdb_lod" ON)
option(OPENVDB_BUILD_VDB_RENDER "Build vdb_render" ON)

 

OpenVDBGLFW3Setup.cmake:130

set(_GLFW3_ROOT_SEARCH_DIR "") 

set(_GLFW3_ROOT_SEARCH_DIR "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu") 

For Enable Polygonization(grid.convertToPolygons) in python module, change  openvdb/openvdb/python/CMakeLists.txt

option(USE_NUMPY "Build the python library with numpy support." ON)

or you will get next error

NotImplementedError: this module was built without NumPy support

Dependences: 

[1] OpenExr https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr

[2] Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks https://github.com/wjakob/tbb

Minimum required is "2017.0" for both above.
 

[3] Boost https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/

$./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/

$./b2

$sudo ./b2 install

#Preference to Boost 1.7 with python3 support, it enable cmds tools

https://melhorum.blogspot.com/2020/10/boost-17-on-ubuntu16.html

Or Compile Viewer Manually on openvdb/openvdb/openvdb/cmd

Ubuntu16

$g++-6 openvdb_view.cc ../viewer/Camera.cc ../viewer/ClipBox.cc ../viewer/Font.cc ../viewer/RenderMo
dules.cc ../viewer/Viewer.cc -lopenvdb -ltbb -lglfw -lGL -lGLU -lHalf -lpthread -DGL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES

Ubuntu18

g++ openvdb_view.cc ../viewer/Camera.cc ../viewer/ClipBox.cc ../viewer/Font.cc ../viewer/RenderModules.cc ../viewer/Viewer.cc -lopenvdb -ltbb -lglfw -DGL_GLEXT_PROTOTYPES -DOPENVDB_USE_GLFW_3 -I ../viewer/ -lHalf -lpthread -o openvdb_view -lboost_thread -lboost_system -lGL -lGLU