if i try to render this on my pc i don't even need to simulate the explosion

For the people that have problems with finding "Bake Data", Go to the Smoke domain > Physics tab > Cache > Type: - , And the type should be Modular, Default you have "Replay" on

For anyone who can't find "color mapping," it's because you're on a newer version and it's just renamed to "grid display" it should show up under "viewport" display just like in the video.

"Usually I use 150 to 200, but for this tutorial I'm gonna leave it at 100." *changes the value to 150*

0:45"and then delete everything, it's all useless" *uninstalls blender and starts career as baker*

For anyone having trouble with the smoke not showing in the rendered view. Select your domain and go to cache and select 'All' instead of 'Modular' or 'Replay', then 'bake all'.

I don't know why but at 6:28 when he says hes going to leave that setting at 100 and then right away enters 150 instead, I had a nice chuckle lol

I would LOVE a good mantaflow fire tutorial. There's barely any content out there for mantaflow fire, and what is actually available is very very simple and not very photorealistic at all. The few renders you showed at the end look incredible and I would love to see a tutorial for those!

Him: so press quick smoke My poor laptop: so ya want smoke, ey?

"smoke" is now called "gas" on updated versions fyi

The Color Mapping is new called Grid Display

Epic results Joel, thanks again for sharing!

for the people that cant find color map. It changed to grid display after 1.9 update

Holy Jesus, I was making your nuclear blast tutorial Yesterday and now here it Is a new tutorial! Man, bruh, you make me so Happy! And all of us addicted to 3dexplosions/pyromaniacs are looking Just for stuff like this!!

Literally wishing for this video yesterday. EXACTLY what I wanted. Thank you so much for sharing what you know man

One of the best explosion tutorials I've found. I've played with fluid water sims so far. Mantaflow is indeed slow, but I've been really impressed by the quality of the results. Looking foward to playing with this now.

For those people who are struggling with the smoke sim not being same as in the video, i finally figured it out after a lot of hardwork ,you need to select all the three emitters when you make the domain by the following steps Select all three emitters Object--) quick effects --) smoke effect

Great tutorial! I'm still experimenting with Mantaflow to get cool looking explosions, but since I'm a little impatient I never get to bake real high resolution explosions, so they are always lacking in detail. One thing I noticed which I see a lot in smoke / explosion tutorials: you have a lot of flickering shadow artefacts in your rendered animations. Many people suggest using cubic interpolation in the material (which you already did) or not using Adaptive Domain to get rid of it. But that's useless. The main reason for the flickering shadows are bounce values set too low in Transmission and Transparent light paths. Yours are set to 8 and 12, I usually set mine to 64 or 128 (and Total to 128 of course) while leaving the others low. I didn't even notice an increase in render times, it just removes the flickering. By the way, this also helps with glass materials which I always thought are too dark, too shadowy.

I use to play around with blender a number of years ago but stopped a while back. But you've resparked my interest, I'm excited to try some of the stuff I've seen on your channel!!

I learned a ton of stuff from this tutorial. Usually I complain because tutorials are too slow, you don't have that problem. I will have to listen a few times to catch everything. Anyway thumbs up all the way.

Some final suggestions: the final material setup you show towards the end has three attribute nodes with the name "density" in it. You could use one attribute node to plug into all three color ramps. And since the density is represented as values ranging from 0 to 1, the color is only black to white - so you could use the factor output of the attribute node instead of the color output. I don't know if there are differences in precision between the color and the factor output, but I'd prefer factor to be on the safe side. And at first you used the Volume Info node instead of Attribute, if you give a reason why you changed it I might have missed it. The thing is, I experienced a small decrease of render time when using the density output of the Volume Info node instead of the Attribute node. It's just subtle, but of course it adds up when rendering animations. The color output of the Volume Info node you use at first is quite useless when plugged into a color ramp... because it just gives the color that's set in the "Smoke Color" settings of the flow object. Being a single color and not a color range, the color ramp just calculates a grey value from it and uses that single color to determine its output color. However - if you have multiple flow objects in your domain and give them different smoke colors, the color output of the Volume Info let's you put different smoke colors on different flow objects inside one domain material.

Could you maybe make a tutorial, where you show, how to simulate and shade the fire simulations. Cause they look really cool and realistic

Wow, these explosions are fantastic. What I learned the most is how much shading can do, with the wrong shading these amazing explosions look like puffed whimpers of sadness.

Wow, I'm impressed. I know creating stuff is not bout tool, but about artist, but this is awesome fx I didn't expected from Blender. Great job

2:25 Help!! My cube is in ancient greek, what do I do now?

Now THAT is what I'm talking about. That's awesome man! That looks really good and that opening was jaw dropping. The camera movement, the pyro, the atmosphere, very well done. Edit- what was the resolution for the fire next to the photo?

This is the best explotion tutorial, good job, keep going, and good luck for your next projects!!

Ok this video got recommended to me and this was the first video i watched of yours, AND THAT INTRO WAS *INTENSE* MAN

"This is a simple explosion, not an advanced one"... Jeeeezus.... Anyway, the video is simply amazing! A lot of details, clearly explained, the end result is incredible... I really appreciate how much effort you are putting into these

„What did u done today?“ „I baked some explosions“

I've never done much simulations work in Blender but damn, this stuff is really cool! Great job dude!

I´m really hyped for this ;)

PSA for anyone using Blender 2.9 INCREASE INITAIL VELOCITY, 60 - 80 worked well for me

Thanks for the video

Fantastic tutorial. I've been looking for weeks for how I might use a particle system in a smoke simulation, and I just couldn't find the right search terms. Somehow KZfaq's algorithm finally found me a good video! Thanks!

awesome job man, makes me wanna pick up blender again (I'm a maya guy)... I can't wait til we can see these kind of effects in real time!

I have no computer and im 13 So i will be back to this video in 10years!

for those wondering where the bake option is, you need to change your cache type from replay to modular. Select the domain open the fluid drop down menu if it isn't already open, open the cache drop down menu, select type and change it to modular. The default type was changed in version 2.83 so yeah.

you do the best job of teaching this on youtube.. thank you I have struggled for months.. this was a life saver.. I finally understand what I was doing wrong

Cool final result. Thanx for tutorial! 😀👍

This man's so good, call this a knowledge bomb, cuz these explosions are fire

love the video that explosion with the ground dust looked amazing. would love one on mantaflow fluid in regards how to control the amount of foam bubbles and spray that are produced, i have played with all the settings but it produces millions and i mean millions for each of the particle type, you would need a NASA pc just to render it....

FANTASTIC Tutorial, dare I say perfect. Thank you so much! Subscribed.

Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! Worked perfect!

me: smiles my laptop: no! NO! nooo no no no no no!! god No!

0:46 "It's all useless" Initial Cube Lives Mater!

Bro your intro is so cool, looks like it could be from a massive movie industry!

Excellent result. Just today I remade it in 2.90 , way better than previous version.

I give up watching this Man's going fast and slow and randomly going fast

"For this tutorial I'm gonna leave it at 100" *changes number to 150*

I'm here just for your epic intro. Love it!

great tutorial! It worked perfectly for me!

Amazing Tutorial!! One question, though... at 10:53 How do you get that to start a little after the explosion, though? Every time I try to do it the "dust" starts rising at frame 1.

the fact that he used 200 particles instead of 2000

Nice work 👍😎👍 excellent explanation and process 😊🖖

You are unbelivable proffesional ! I am so happy that I found video like this :D

Really good tutorial, just a tip: the intro sound is a little to loud.

At 6:56 "you can see a tiny little wisp of smoke comes up" - mine doesn't look like that, I've done the tutorial 3 times over trying to figure this out. Mine just looks squat. Any tips here?

Intro is sick !

Amazing tutorial. I am just rendering the animation at 45% to see what is going on. But even though I got everything the same as you (well, almost, i have more emitters - 4, things look totally different). Basically I have more flame and not so much round smoke as you have. Will have to do the tutorial couple times more and play with the settings - blender 2.83. The other problem I am having is that no matter how big I will make the domain, the smoke eventually hits the borders of the domain. The emitters are approx 30 cm, the domain 10 m high. Still hits the sealing and looks like massive clip. Thank you for your work!

9:22 How did you make smoke so big? Color mapping in the new Blender is a grid display. So how to make such a huge smoke in the grid display?

"I'm just gonna leave [the cache end frame] at 100" *immediately changes it to 150 Great tutorial. Thanks!

is awesome your intro and content! the sound is WOW!

Great tutorial, gives an overall understanding of this system in blender.

15:00 why can't i see the smoke in the cycles enigne? i have added two suns with a direction towards the smoke, but all i get i a almost dark screen in the quick render in cycles

For those people who's fire is not changing to the red and yellow ColorRamp, try deleting the attribute and re-add it again. took me like half an hr to fix it.

Awsm! Thanks for the video!

Thank you very much! This is an amazing tutorial! Thanks again!

Simulation has always been Blender's weakness. That' requieres way more R&D than most other features.

"Translate tool, in case your cube is in Latin" **Translates a latin plane**

A really informative tutorial, 👍I’ve tried following others but most of them have been useless

Awesome tutorial!

"cause it all USELESS" Default cube : " crying in silent"

In most tutorials the "Using Scene Gravity" Z value under fluid settings is -1 m/s but mine is like -9.8 m/s. It wont let me change it but does this matter?

New sub ! Thanks for the detailed tutorial. You are amazing

Very good tutorial, thank you. I got a really nice result.

where's the color mapping in blender 2.90? I can't find any option for that or do i need to set that up in Shading?

is there anything you can do about the the domain cutting off the shockwave blast?

that intro is truly epic

this is awesome. Intro to everything

Iridesium: So now lets bake, this shouldn't take very long Me: ok 50 min later* Iridesium: So now let's free the bake! Me: 😁🔫

Me: Hits Alt R Radeon Software: HELLO

I love that intro!

I had to subscribe for that epic intro

Could someone please send me a download link for a finished product because My thing isn’t working and I want to compare them thank you 😊.

"delete everything, it's useless" also "I'm going to add in a cube"

Ultra useful thx a lot for all these tips!

So Nice!!! Thank you!!!

GAME TRAILER : 0:17 GAMEPLAY: 20:43

9:03 the viewport display panel lookes totally diffrent for me. i have blender 2.91.0 and i dont know how to do this step.

Great tutorial as always!! I am interested on how the shockwave on the preview was done.

Thx for sharing your knowledge!

When i view my explotion with color mapping it’s all black, instead of white like yours, and i can’t really see all the “boubles” and such. And my smoke is like yours untill the particles lifetime run out, and then it slow down and rises very slowly up. Do you know the answer for that?

My explosion always completely fills up the smoke domain, no matter the size of the domain, or the speed of the smoke.

Awesome 👍

superb. so much learning

For some reason when I switch to render in cycles no smoke shows up at all. I have followed the tutorial every step of the way and everything looks good up until I get to rendering in cycles.

9:23 "Because of the noise we added..." When did we add noise? I replayed this 4 times. I don't know... I'm in Blender 2.9 and I can't get this to look right.

Awesome; thank you for sharing!

That's one sexy looking UI! Loved it, thanks for sharing it