{"id":1133,"date":"2026-06-10T11:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:28:32","slug":"archived-post-by-lwwwwwws-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/06\/10\/archived-post-by-lwwwwwws-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Archived post by lwwwwwws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p class=\"\">I found if you sop import packed disk VDBs it happily does the right thing and you get instances referencing the original .vdb files, no extra caching required&#8230; so if you&#8217;ve got packed (non-disk) VDBs as .bgeo you should be able to turn that into a packed disk equivalent: &#8211; unpack 1 prim with Apply Transform disabled to get the original VDB &#8211; save it as a .vdb, load it back in as a packed disk with a File SOP &#8211; use Pack Inject to turn the packed VDB setup into packed disk VDBs &#8211; change or delete the path attrib, because packed disks have the file path in there and LOPs will use it to create a transform hierarchy from your on-disk folder structure which is just insanely confusing the first time you see it lmao<\/p>\n<p>Attachments in this post: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-content\/uploads\/discord\/20264106\/10\/26\/Screenshot_2026-06-10_at_11.41.14.png\">http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-content\/uploads\/discord\/20264106\/10\/26\/Screenshot_2026-06-10_at_11.41.14.png<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found if you sop import packed disk VDBs it happily does the right thing and you get instances referencing the original .vdb files, no extra caching required&#8230; so if you&#8217;ve got packed (non-disk) VDBs as .bgeo you should be able to turn that into a packed disk equivalent: &#8211; unpack 1 prim with Apply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/2026\/06\/10\/archived-post-by-lwwwwwws-16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archived post by lwwwwwws<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fx-td.com\/houdiniandchill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}