How to Animate Particles Along a Curve in Blender (Without Curve Guide)

How to Animate Particles Along a Curve in Blender (Without Curve Guide) - Bonus Tutorial

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Blender quick tip: How to make particles (like smoke, fire or liquids) follow a path, from our course b3d.cgcookie.com/dynamics-yt
Curve guide is the common method, but it does have serious limitations. If you want to make the particle movement more interesting by using gravity or extra force fields, there is a much better way.
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@PrinceWesterburg 5 жыл бұрын

I have to do a treatment for a pop video, this would have been a complete ball-ache in LightWave, if it worked at all. In Blender, proof of concept done in 15mins, I have room for experimentation, the director can add changes without issue, its a dream! I've only been using blender two weeks!!! :D

@cg_cookie 5 жыл бұрын

That's so cool to hear, hope the project goes well!

@SteveWarner 5 жыл бұрын

From one former LightWave user to another, welcome to the other side. You're going to find Blender to be the spiritual successor to LightWave in almost every regard.

@PrinceWesterburg 2 жыл бұрын

@@SteveWarner I literally only have LW installed to open old files and import .eps files these days. I looked at the recent release and its just unusable and the render engine got worse, lots worse! Blender forever!!!

@MrNewRevolutionary 3 жыл бұрын

Little did you now, 4 years after posting this you have saved a man. God bless you.

@ldelmar3875 6 жыл бұрын

Your a live saver, had so many situations where I could have used this. Thanks !

@SteveWarner 5 жыл бұрын

Really great tip. Thanks so much for sharing. This will open all kinds of additional possibilities for us!

@tgard007 2 жыл бұрын

great work thank you for being clear and quick to the point

@Yotrymp 7 жыл бұрын

If you want the control of the first curve but with more random velocities of particles, just change the randomness of the lifetime (right under the lifetime number). Since the lifetime controls the velocity of the particles with curve physics, variable (more random) lifetimes will cause particles to have different speeds.

@taiwoganiyu3768 4 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial! Saved my butt on a job last year. Thanks.

@M4rt1nX 4 жыл бұрын

Straight to the point!!! That's how you do it man

@giannideschaepdryver1665 7 жыл бұрын

I had NO idea there was this 'Curve' option for force fields. THANK YOU!

@LaneCarter 7 жыл бұрын

Had no idea you could do any of this. Thank you!

@soirema 6 жыл бұрын

This is truly wonderfull, thank you ! PLease dont ever delete those tutroials :c

@ureekaanimation8127 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man. Just what I need right now.

@roxef 5 жыл бұрын

This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

@michaelalando 4 жыл бұрын

First watched this tutorial over a year ago and today I still say "Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!"

@ryangreyson 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Great Tutorial!

@zewnatury2010 6 жыл бұрын

Nice trick. Quick and useful!

@IndustrialPlasticsNanaimo 4 жыл бұрын

Love it! Thank you.

@m9jbhakar 4 жыл бұрын

working on blood flow in vein, trying to slow down the flow with heart beat, searched for two days how to set keyframe on strength, but there was no such strength in guide curve, you saved my life.

@yadsarwat6325 4 жыл бұрын

Very helpfull indeed, many thanks to you sir. You can use this effect for soda and beer foam effect. What I was looking for!!

@spproplus 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing, thanks so much.

@mohammedyoussif7352 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing tutorial Subbed keep up the good work really cool ;)

@Riley_MDS 6 жыл бұрын

YOU SAVE MY TIME DUDE, THANKS !

@user-rc2yx4tu8q 7 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks a lot I was searching for this so looong!

@KaletheQuick 5 жыл бұрын

This was cool the pair with the "Boids" behavior for particles.

@ScottVanKirk 4 жыл бұрын

thanks! Just what I needed

@hamishmctiaigh4363 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Thanks a ton mate

@marioCazares 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@birhon Ай бұрын

For my particular usecase the wind force was actually more effective. Super helpful thank you for giving me more freedom. 7 years later and curve guide is still just as limiting.

@invalidtorture 6 жыл бұрын

this is brilliant

@AtrusDesign 3 жыл бұрын

this is what i was searching for!!

@SjonSjine 4 жыл бұрын

That's what I need! Thanks!!!!!!!

7 жыл бұрын

Amazing vid

@jzno 5 жыл бұрын

AWESOME!!!

@etheleticengine 3 жыл бұрын

So big fan of CG cookie, cg monster, Cg boost, blender guru and cg geek all of you best of luck

@DanielOakfield 4 жыл бұрын

Let's try this in 2.8!!! :) Thanks for the tutorial!

@saurabhgrewal8210 7 жыл бұрын

Omg.... I was looking for such...

@germanvegacastro4238 7 жыл бұрын

THIS WAS SO HELPFUL... THANK YOU PS- I LOVE YOU

@mgh666 6 жыл бұрын

So simple in the end, damn'd! Thank you!

@JordanGarland 4 жыл бұрын

thank you so much !!

@sriharsha5036 3 жыл бұрын

Dude! Thank you. I'm new to blender and am trying to figure out how to do a sun mass transfer animation to work. :)

@othmaneeljacfi3747 7 жыл бұрын

great tip!!!!!!!!

@xzendor7 6 жыл бұрын

Very Cool.

@andrewrichard3490 3 жыл бұрын

Genius, thanks...

@TooEazyCG 7 жыл бұрын

awesome

@SaltyThinker Жыл бұрын

amazing

@ibrahim3501 5 жыл бұрын

impeccable

@OmeedNOuhadi 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! -ONO

@TimEdwards_Timzero4 7 жыл бұрын

Excellent...:)

@nightly-sou6311 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@PonteRyuurui 4 жыл бұрын

sick

@jamesjosephides 4 жыл бұрын

hey there great tutorial! I was wondering if Blender can make particles move with the emitter? Almost as if it's parented. I want to make two "galaxies" merge.

@byrondubois_za 2 жыл бұрын

I would really like to see this sort of thing on hard edges, like square triangles etc.

@ThaoNguyen-gc2pu 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks very much for your tips. Could you please make a video to show how the wind can blow away the dust while carving out an image or a text, please!

@GabrieleMarengo 5 жыл бұрын

Hey, cool video, thanks for sharing! Just a question: how do you make particles movin' as a slipstream? When I make particles following the curve, they do that by maintaining the cube shape...Many thanks anyway! Cheers

@ldelmar3875 6 жыл бұрын

I have the problem that the particles return back to the beginning once they reached the end of the spline. Can I somehow make them float away ? I thought of using the +Z or -Z Axis under the falloff tab but I need them to set loose a the right end of the spline (x direction). Does this falloff work on global or local axis ? Thanx for the help

@nicolajslvsten4978 4 жыл бұрын

thaaaank you

@georgeluna6217 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this one very informative. DO you know if you can use more than one curve ?

@MarcoLongoMusic 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Is it possible to move the curve itself in time?

@guille2892 4 жыл бұрын

Hey! Can this be done with a liquid instead of particles? Thank you!

@ermerk 2 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, but how do you do the particle set up though? For me the particles follow the curve, but they stay in the shape of the cube and don't have a fluid motion.

@maxwellutter3885 5 жыл бұрын

How do you narrow the width of the particles? For me, they have to follow the curve exactly.

@TDHster 6 жыл бұрын

Can you update link to lessons? Cgcookie link isn't valid.

@claudioceroni8028 3 жыл бұрын

if I have more splines is it possible to assign one tipe of particle to a desired spline?

@bazilion666 3 жыл бұрын

There is no force field, curve shape type in 2.91.

@dancehall1931 5 жыл бұрын

Is there a way to take this and import it into Unity as working particles?

@Cyber_Kriss 4 жыл бұрын

My brain somewhat drifted away while watching this video... I ended up feeling like I was watching this for half an hour... Ahaha !!! #blendermagic

@sasankabeura8531 4 жыл бұрын

How to accelerate simulated particles along a direction or x axis? Plz reply

@steve00alt70 7 жыл бұрын

I don't know if i'll become a pro at modelling or animation but I'm learning maya, but being a freelancer is more competitive. I think i'll just use blender just to show my work as past time :(

@rramanathc 6 жыл бұрын

can you please show me a tutorial to draw lines on sand in blender 2.79

@dh4923 Жыл бұрын

is it possible to have 2 emitters, with each following different curves? Getting weird results when i try this

@arifm5597 6 жыл бұрын

Hi, I need your help on my project on particle subject..how do I reach you please..

@Harrenders 4 жыл бұрын

i know its old but im using the same version but it doesnt work any helps

@TheNewton 7 жыл бұрын

video tip: 2:41 when the screen freezes and that sound plays it's exactly like when someones computer is crashing, not fun. Though 27 days earlier and it be a funny gaff.

@tebitosan9771 Жыл бұрын

does this work in blender 3?, I'm trying, and I can't get it to work. Force now has the shape "Line", and I can't get it to follow the curve....

@theproibras 6 жыл бұрын

think for tips

@vcruelbrawl 4 ай бұрын

Help! I dont know why i can´t see the particules in when i render the particules

@SilverlightningY 7 жыл бұрын

How did you turn the gravity off?

@giannideschaepdryver1665 7 жыл бұрын

In your Properties window, the 3rd tab from left is the Scene-tab. In there you'll find gravity settings for the entire scene. If you want to turn off gravity for just your particles, you can do so by going to your particle settings, and look for Gravity in the Field Weights panel

@SilverlightningY 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

@jordanhwang 3 жыл бұрын

Can someone point me in the right direction to figure out how to apply this curve technique to become flying water, smoke, or fire?

@Nagarajukuruva 7 жыл бұрын

CAN WE MOVE ANY OBJECTS ON THE WAY OF THE MOVING PARTICLES

@rustycwright 7 жыл бұрын

In the Render section of the Particles tab select Object. Then in the Dupli Object box specify your object. If you use Group it will randomly pick objects from the group.

@Deutsch-Pie 7 жыл бұрын

I hope particles for liquid simulation and controllable Force Field will be add to Blender. Because it's really hard to make water to move around a bottle as you know. There must be tricks, but unfortunately, nobody made a tutorial about it))

@Deutsch-Pie 7 жыл бұрын

Btw, Thank you for tip ))

@rustycwright 7 жыл бұрын

Mehman, have a look at the Molecular addon for blender.

@Deutsch-Pie 7 жыл бұрын

There are no many tutorials about how to use Molecular addon for liquid simulation, like turning around a bottle or falling down from the surface of bottle. I hope there will be a lot of tuts about Molecular addon. I really thankfull for your reply :)

@Deutsch-Pie 6 жыл бұрын

Nurlan Valiyev addon deyil, simulyasiyadi, uatunde gelir Blenderin))

@Deutsch-Pie 6 жыл бұрын

2-ci variant hansi deqiqeden sonradi?)

@akhileshbhise7266 3 жыл бұрын

Blender 2.9 crashes while editing the keyframes. Please help me out

@matthewk7013 4 жыл бұрын

hi, but wont work in blender 2.8

@NotAlex20 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn't seem to be working in 2.8 anymore.

@drumboarder1 2 жыл бұрын

I've been trying this and boids to try and get a mesh to fly along a path but neither seems to work, I can't get the particles to face the direction they're flying no matter what I try and boids seem to stick to the mesh I've set up as a guide.. Why can't particles just be cool man