Description

It opens up more options. The meshing in Lucid currently has very few settings (maybe you plan to expand them), while Frost has lots of settings that you can play with. You can also use magma to color the mesh's vertex colors which is very useful. You can also do things that might not sound useful at first, but could be useful later, like with Frost you can mesh with geometry (putting a custom object at each particle). This could be useful if you wanted to do a lego splash for an example. Frost supports particles but also supports vertices, so one easy way would be to output a vertex at each particle and Frost would be able to use it.

OpenVDB is awesome, and I believe Thinkbox is intending to use it to speed up Frost meshing, not to remove options. I talk to them fairly often but haven't talked to them about this except that Frost is a very successful plugin for them.