Blender particle simulation tutorial: Advanced shading process

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7 жыл бұрын

Music: Drone in D ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
Patreon: / iagomota
Note: The shading process is rather complicated, so it is recommended that you understand how the Cycles node system works.
Unfortunately, the project files are unavailable. For whatever reason, it seems that Dropbox deleted all of my files and, due to recent hard-drive problems, they're unrecoverable. I will make sure that this problem will not repeat and I will consider the possibility to manually recreate some of them. I hope you understand; thank you.
In this video, I will show you how to make a Blender particle simulation with particle textures (which animate certain variables over the lifetime of each particle), and also how the quite complicated shading process for it is achieved.
I apologize for the banding artifacts that you may encounter throughout the video (bands that occur in the presence of gradients). I followed KZfaq's recommended upload encoding settings, but they're still appearing. This might be due to bad compression or bad video processing. If you have any advice for high-quality rendering in After Effects or know about a good video compression software, I will strongly appreciate it if you leave a comment.

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@MaxPuliero 7 жыл бұрын

why so few views? this channel is AMAZING!

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@ulriktnnesen5987 7 жыл бұрын

I agree, I'm new to Blender but this is a great channel :D

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@RefractArt 7 жыл бұрын

Because people like me and him are underrated.

@skymario8327 4 жыл бұрын

this is the most elegant tutorial I have ever witnessed. Great job.

@ciaranpmryan 6 жыл бұрын

This is some next level shit! I cannot thank you enough for sharing your node setup. I’ve been playing with fluid sims for the last two weeks and it took me so long to find good foam tutorials (none really, they’re all just for the ocean shader) but I still needed a material for using particles as the foam. You have given me a ton of ideas to play with (if my bake ever finishes. 7 hours and counting 😳).

@theblenderacademy3353 5 жыл бұрын

Has it finished baking? 😂

@MegaMenhir 7 жыл бұрын

Insane learning material! Well paced tuts with astonishing results. Subbed!

@sandharutharaka 4 жыл бұрын

I do not subscribe for channels right after one video. But right after your node work i had to hit the button. maaaaan your works are amazing. Your nodes are craaaazy. Keep it up bro. Keep droping some amazing shit like this. Keep it up. Man

@niclasm4123 7 жыл бұрын

Dont usually like videos without a voice but you really did a great job explaining things with nice fonts and texts:) might be a bit small at times when I watch on the phone :) cool tutorial btw!

@TheMikel9001 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial. Thanks for your work.

@adaozeras_ 7 жыл бұрын

Muito bacana, o mundo precisa de mais tutoriais desse nível. ^^

@lowru 6 жыл бұрын

Very professional tutorials, I like it

@nightly-sou6311 5 жыл бұрын

GREAT and AMAZING channel, you deserve many times more views :)

@scottlee38 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome sauce! This'll come in handy for sure xD

@pheecatoanimation3669 7 жыл бұрын

Great! thanks for the blender file.

@colonelmustang337 7 жыл бұрын

You have some of the most fantastic stuff I have ever seen, where did you learn all of this from? Your node work is insane.

@knil8506 7 жыл бұрын

Great job and thank you.

@activemotionpictures 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing!! This is amazing!

@hapticexposure1965 7 жыл бұрын

awesome tutorial. subbed.

@bDwS27 6 жыл бұрын

This was very interesting. Subbed with notifications.

@DieFlockenmeister 7 жыл бұрын

Nice TUT. It helped me a lot, because I'm making Intros! I subbed:)

@neo7108 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing.

@mariotti.jerome 7 жыл бұрын

Nice ! THX !

@theblenderacademy3353 5 жыл бұрын

Your channel is amazing! With VOICE your tutorials would be just PERFECT!

@theblenderacademy3353 5 жыл бұрын

I am really looking forward to many new tutorials from you!!!!!!! PS Do you have any advice for how to learn well the Node Editor? Thanks! ;-)

@jessica9445 6 жыл бұрын

Man u r fast >,< BUT LOOOOVEEE YOUR VIDEOS, helps me so much! TYSM, keep it up-I m sure ur gonna become big!

@jessica9445 6 жыл бұрын

P.S. for your next video, maybe water or FIREWORKS! Bec ik u like ur particles-i do too lol.

@Hanmen-mods 5 жыл бұрын

Very good

@dinilgamage6894 5 жыл бұрын

I do not usually Subscribe. But you earned my respect. Subbed

@LetTheWritersWrite 7 жыл бұрын

Love the videos but I'm having such a hard time understanding why and how it works. l wish you explained the why.

@GEORGE.M.M 6 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, is there a way to constrain the particles to remain inside a mesh object, and is it possible to do the reverse have the particles flow around a mesh object?

@Monkok3D 7 жыл бұрын

Your videos are amazing! (and very stylish) Made me subcriber An Idea for tutorial: Sandman from the film spider-man 3 - how do we rig parts of character made of particles and mix it with the rest part made of mesh? Hope that's a good idea to ask a tutorial for.

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm currently working on another tutorial, but I might give your idea a try and see if I can make a tutorial about it.

@felixk1293 5 жыл бұрын

Great Tutorial! I seem to have a problem when compositing, because after following youre steps nothing changes.

@IagoMotaVFX 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! By compositing, are you talking about the shading? Because that's definitely odd, after you connect the setup to the Material Output, everything should update. Now, if you're using child particles, then Cycles might not render them properly (up to 2.79, the "Particle Info" node doesn't work when child particles are used).

@felixk1293 5 жыл бұрын

@@IagoMotaVFX No, the shading is fine. It's when you change the output of the render to look more blue.

@IagoMotaVFX 5 жыл бұрын

@@felixk1293 Does rendering the whole thing again update it? Also, have you tried connecting the outputs into a Viewer node (and enabled "Backdrop") instead?

@MimasAnimations 7 жыл бұрын

Do you know how to make a mesh with a particle system as emitter of an other particle system? i just know that if you make the mash as group you can add it but you cant "edit" it separately

@Fridaytubeful 7 жыл бұрын

HI, its possible to bake teh material without lighting, specially smoke shader?

@gugaplayz7299 7 жыл бұрын

hi my name is Jordi el niño, nice to meet you guys

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

Good morrow, Jordi el Niño.

@stanleydegraef4442 6 жыл бұрын

is it normal that emit from shaders doesn't work for me well its not a huge problem because i get the same results from faces but just confused for a bit

@Ankka22 7 жыл бұрын

please tell me how to change object to halo

@maurom5313 4 жыл бұрын

Is it still possible to get the .blend file? Thanks

@liphiia 3 жыл бұрын

if I make a new texture, I can only have both on damp or both on force fields.. rip 30 mins

@kianushkeykhosravi8413 5 жыл бұрын

Hello tnx for your tutorial i have a question how do you make your planes light effect particles in showing white color and make them invisible to render at the same time?

@IagoMotaVFX 5 жыл бұрын

In order to make them invisible to the camera, but still visible to other objects, you can go to their object properties, open the "Cycles Settings" panel, open "Ray Visibility" and disable "Camera".

@kianushkeykhosravi8413 5 жыл бұрын

Tnq so much

@theblenderacademy3353 5 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial (really!) but mine does not work: the particles just go everywhere! 😞any help?

@yossi_cohen 4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't too :( tried it twice and got nothing close to what's on the tut - please aid

@Lonely_Animation 7 жыл бұрын

nicee

@1111quinn 2 жыл бұрын

Could you explain what you're doing with the nodes when you first start with the node editor? I'm not completely understanding what it's purpose in the shader is, it seems really specific so I'm curious what it's even doing (talking about the math node that you set to multiply by "e" and all the color ramps and math nodes)

@IagoMotaVFX 2 жыл бұрын

I was trying to come up with a sort of "custom" translucency set up, where I'd be able to control the color based on the density of the particle simulations. So that areas with less particles, and consequently less bouncing light, would be more blue; while areas with more particles would be more red in hue. I forgot most of how it's done, mostly because it's actually kind of obsolete now! :p These days, all that one needs to do is just add an Ambient Occlusion node, and use its color output on a Mix node or a Color Ramp to create basically the same result.

@1111quinn 2 жыл бұрын

@@IagoMotaVFX thanks for the reply!! Now it makes a lot more sense! I know this is an old video but still top quality work👌

@IagoMotaVFX 2 жыл бұрын

@@1111quinn No problem! Thank you!

@schwarzegeometrie4034 4 жыл бұрын

does this still work the same way on blender 2.83? my particle texture gradients look diffrent while i have the same values resulting in different effects. Or could this be due to slightly different scale/noise/turbulence settings? My shader is also just not as colorful not resulting in a gradient at all. The Mistakes might just be on me, just curious.

@schwarzegeometrie4034 4 жыл бұрын

btw, thaks for the insights, what you share here is amazing!

@IagoMotaVFX 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! The main elements here (particle gradients and shading) are still working fine for me, but maybe some settings were slightly modified over the past few versions. About the color, I think that might be related to the Filmic color management (which is much better than sRGB which I used here, so I don't recommend changing that).

@WaddleQwacker 7 жыл бұрын

You have 21 fps when previewing your particles while i have about 5 with a decent config (i have an i7 4790 and Nvidia GTX 970 both OC). How do you do that ? Either you have an absolutely crazy computer, or there are some magical settings in Blender that I would have missed?

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

I think it's because I have an 8 core processor, meaning that instead of a single core having to do all the processing, there are 8 of them, making it faster. Nowadays there are processors with up to 22 cores, but they're clearly very expensive.

@WaddleQwacker 7 жыл бұрын

but i have 8 cores too :'( edit : i figured it out : windows was doing some stupid background tasks without my permission. Windows 10 is cool... Sometimes i wonder why i don't listen to my friends that spend their time screaming out loud "if you use blender, you can run it on linux, so JUST DO IT ! no fucking OS bullshiterries, faster render times, and at least it runs smoothly, not like other 3D progams!!!!".

@WaddleQwacker 7 жыл бұрын

i tried to render that on a render farm (sheep it, if you know it). But certain frames have ben rendered partially purple... As if it was missing a texture file. I'm sad now.

@MsGiono 7 жыл бұрын

how long does it takes to render that kind of animation?

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

For me, it took about 12 hours.

@joshualyness4790 7 жыл бұрын

Grego Rius my usable pc broke, so now I'm rendering this on a 2 core 1.2ghz laptop processor kill me now

@ManMilker00 7 жыл бұрын

Do you mind if I ask what your computer specs are? - Also, you are amazing with particle systems and creating effects with them, your work is mesmerising!

@IagoMotaVFX 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you. My current PC specs are: 16 Gb of RAM Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti GPU