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Caching output

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- All right, so we've created our smoke simulation. We've gone through a bunch of the different nodes that we can use to tweak and modify the simulation. And now I'm going to show you how we can cache out the final results. First I'm going to go into SMOKE_SIM. I'm going to go to my Pyro node, up here. And you can see this is where the division size is, which is basically overall resolution. I'm going to change this down to .1 now, so it's even higher res. You can see that even getting that first frame ready took a second. Now I'm going to go into my SMOKE_RESULT node here. Let me just move over my view port. What we're going to do, is this import_pyrofields node is the node that brings in the simulation from the Dop network. So I'm going to middle mouse click here. You can see by default, it's set to bring in all these different fields. And you can see that it's bringing in all those fields via this node. Often you do want all these different fields for some certain purposes. If…

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