How to add AUTOMATIC Sword Trails in Blender

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  • Опубликовано: 20 дек 2024

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  • @professorGoo
    @professorGoo  2 года назад +21

    Probably my favorite tool we've made. Get Mesh Trails here! meshtrails.com or blendermarket.com/products/meshtrails

  • @BarrettSmithBB
    @BarrettSmithBB 2 года назад +61

    I've used Mesh Trails for almost a year now and Dillon is really under selling how good this add-on is. It's easy to use, flexible, has a lot of quality of life features, and is stable. I can't recommend it enough! The way I have added it to an object is duplicate and separate the edges of the object I want to add the trails to. Then convert the mesh to a curve, and add the trail to that. And because it's duplicated it's inherited all the modifiers, armatures, etc. of the parent object.

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  2 года назад +11

      YEAH that's a super smart way to do it too! Also you're too kind T---T

    • @Bingbangbong28
      @Bingbangbong28 Год назад +1

      Hi do you have any idea how we can change the design of the trail to something like the lighting or fire trail shown in the trailer vid for this mesh add on?

    • @cqcumberfunnymix
      @cqcumberfunnymix Год назад +1

      i need help i want to make a fire sword and i don't know how to make the anime fire shader appear. ( PLZ REPLY )

    • @HardcoreGamingQC
      @HardcoreGamingQC Год назад

      kinda expensive though

    • @dawsonwu7272
      @dawsonwu7272 6 месяцев назад

      @@HardcoreGamingQC kinda worth it though

  • @TheWr13r
    @TheWr13r 2 года назад +22

    There I was. In an alleyway. Starved from not being able to get trails in my blender scene. And then… Dillon goo walked in and then gave me a discount code

  • @IronVirus
    @IronVirus 2 года назад +11

    Timestamps:
    0:00 Intro
    1:11 3D Scene in Blender
    1:53 How to Download Mesh Trails
    2:56 How to Install Mesh Trails
    3:53 Getting Started with Mesh Trails
    5:49 'Generate Simple Shader' Button
    6:17 Wind Settings
    7:36 Using Mesh Trails with a Sword
    7:45 Modeling a Sword
    8:45 Animating the Sword
    10:48 Mesh Trails with Parenting
    11:35 Mesh Trails with Hooks
    13:33 Why use Hooks?
    14:40 Turning on Mesh Trails
    16:12 Fixing the Mesh Trails with Cache Settings + Sub Frames
    18:14 Re-open Demo File
    20:00 Modifying the Shading
    22:19 Adding Mesh Trails to Limbs

  • @scale...3d
    @scale...3d Год назад +3

    Things like these should literally be standard in animation softwares. This really shows how much improvement the current softwares need. This addon is really quite useful. I will buy the hobby version for sure :)

  • @AliasAnimates
    @AliasAnimates 2 года назад +6

    Holy crap, this is actually really cool
    Personally i have characters that focus on speed alot and while i still have far from even finished learning to model, and start learning animation in blender, That one wind function will save my LIFE. thank you so much

  • @Bylov6812
    @Bylov6812 2 года назад +11

    I'm excited for all the tools your team will develop! I bet y'all creating probably the craziest tools for animators! Keep going!

  • @justblaze4707
    @justblaze4707 3 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for making this affordable for hobbyists

  • @shelbybayer200
    @shelbybayer200 6 месяцев назад

    The Trail animations look so smooth too.

  • @fergadelics
    @fergadelics Год назад +1

    You can get a head start on things by duplicating the edge of the object you want to trail and converting it to curve. I’m getting ready to use this again and watched the video to refresh. I have another trail addon but for reasons I can’t remember the goo one is more reliable. Its more realized in general. The other one does have a wiggle bone type of time offset, which is handy

  • @Fi_Sci_
    @Fi_Sci_ 2 года назад +4

    Thanks Goo, this is what I’ve been looking for to get the right emphasis for a Lightsword I’ve been modeling.
    Watching those Blender presentations and what you displayed was Magnificent and inspiring from where you started and how you evolved. I wish your team the best of luck going forward Dillon 👍🏻

  • @timothycook
    @timothycook 2 года назад +2

    I’ve got a pretty long “character with sword” animation that really needs this. 😎🤓
    Thanks for the work y’all do!

  • @NEWGHOST9
    @NEWGHOST9 2 года назад

    This rlly brought me back to the twitchstream days where streams were frequent, yall are doin some rlly cool stuff!

  • @DillsArtThing
    @DillsArtThing 2 года назад

    The fact that my name is also Dillon throws me off all the time when he starts talking to himself like "stop tweaking it, dillon, stop tweaking it" sounded very personal

  • @StudioKelpie1993
    @StudioKelpie1993 2 года назад

    I need this in my life!

  • @Lameless
    @Lameless Год назад

    Thanks professor.

  • @EvyDevy
    @EvyDevy 2 года назад

    Looks amazingg!

  • @DariusYoung
    @DariusYoung 5 месяцев назад

    Question, is there documentation or a video on how to make the other type of effects shown in the thumbnail? Like the lighting and fire effects?

  • @Junafekafe_Sakit_Hatshepsut
    @Junafekafe_Sakit_Hatshepsut 10 месяцев назад

    I'm very disappointed that I didn't know about this until now, and I'm grateful that such a groundbreaking add-on is available at such a low price.
    Damn, I should have been born an American!

  • @samizo5842
    @samizo5842 2 года назад +1

    Next we need impact frames addon 😂🔥

  • @pitched7401
    @pitched7401 11 месяцев назад

    Alternatively, the free geo node setup by Cartesian caramel generates trails as well

  • @choo_choo_
    @choo_choo_ 6 месяцев назад

    Hey! I've been playing around with MT in a scene with a car, but I'm having a lot of trouble controlling the length of the trail.
    I've got the car moving through the scene (quite fast), and the trails end up way too long to fit into frame or look good. Is there a way to say "hey, make a trail only this long"? I've found that baking it shortens it a bit, but I'd have to crank up subframes by quite a lot to get it to actually be in frame.
    I should also mention as well, that the length is at 1 and they're still too long. Not to mention that having a higher length seems to give the curve a bit more "wiggle" to play with it seems like, so keeping it at 1 seems to just make things look worse.
    Like I love the addon and use it all the time, but if I can't get it to work in this scene I'll just have to try something else.

  • @senior_pilot3999
    @senior_pilot3999 5 месяцев назад

    I'm just amazed by that avatar! Is that a like vtubers or is it animated? It's very good!

  • @ZetCreations
    @ZetCreations Год назад

    How do you enable live preview in blender? I cant move my curve while timeline is playing.

  • @cqcumberfunnymix
    @cqcumberfunnymix 2 месяца назад

    Does the professional version of the mesh trails have everything that the 56.00 one has? ( Please reply )

  • @a.j.outlaster1222
    @a.j.outlaster1222 Год назад

    24:06
    Something I find interesting about this animation is how you kinda made the body language more feminine.
    Impressive attention to detail, In my opinion.🙃

  • @IndieQuest-s8q
    @IndieQuest-s8q 3 месяца назад

    how do you change the material of the mesh trail

  • @jackeye5368
    @jackeye5368 Год назад

    If I get his course would I be able to use the abi rig on instagram products? Of course not earning money on insta just for show and stuff

  • @joshuafrazier3904
    @joshuafrazier3904 2 года назад +1

    Am I the only one who is new to blender watched this and basically went. What is this black magic and how can I learn it. This applies to literally everything like even just basic animations and everything in between. My experience to blender is literally a singular school project and that’s all.

  • @bonkli2901
    @bonkli2901 2 года назад

    hello! I recently discovered your channel and I love ur tutorials! Thank u for these and also u have a really fantastic vtuber model

  • @TRIMRKR
    @TRIMRKR Месяц назад

    can this not bake the complete path to a mesh? I was hoping for a solution for creating vfx meshes for export to game engines.

  • @RichArchilles
    @RichArchilles 2 года назад +1

    Have you done a video on your avatar yet? Idk if it's the mocap equipment or the rigging, but the movement was amazingly fluid. I want to know how you got it to be as responsive as you did

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  2 года назад +8

      Thanks!! It's using VSeeFace and an iPhone for mocap like most everyone else :D the fluidity is in the blend shapes and mocap settings. I hope to make a video about it some day in the future.

    • @RichArchilles
      @RichArchilles 2 года назад

      @@professorGoo looking forward to it 👍

  • @shubhrashubhadas9721
    @shubhrashubhadas9721 8 месяцев назад

    Hey...Can we take it into Unity? I am guessing the Mesh trail shading doesn't get carried into Unity. If you could reply, it would be huge. Excellent Addon, just purchased.

  • @aryanbarure1479
    @aryanbarure1479 10 месяцев назад

    is there a mesh trail plug in for maya?

  • @Famedawg
    @Famedawg 10 месяцев назад

    Is this compatible with the current blender version?

  • @jamaalsineke2405
    @jamaalsineke2405 Год назад

    Can the meshes generated with this addon be used in game engines?

  • @HampsterGirl
    @HampsterGirl 2 года назад +1

    how did you animate the character on the side of the screen?

    • @Nomimesh
      @Nomimesh Год назад +1

      He used a face tracking app called Vseeface, combined with his model

    • @HampsterGirl
      @HampsterGirl Год назад

      @@Nomimesh Oh, thanks 😀

  • @alfiejackson9137
    @alfiejackson9137 9 месяцев назад

    I was just hoping to find a tutorial on how to make trails. Dang

  • @israelfv
    @israelfv 2 года назад

    A W E S O M E
    I need learn

  • @211candygirl
    @211candygirl Год назад

    Does this work on other things other than swords. For example, a traveling ball that curves? Like if a soccer player kicked a ball and it curves into the goal? Could mesh curves be used to show this path?

  • @bradonbyrd8061
    @bradonbyrd8061 Год назад

    Awesome

  • @samizo5842
    @samizo5842 2 года назад

    Nice 🔥

  • @Soturi_the_paladin
    @Soturi_the_paladin Год назад

    I've been playing with the settings for a while trying to figure this out, figured i'd ask if anybody knows why the trails always draw behind my model? I don't have the model set to show infront or anything...? any advice is appreciated

    • @Soturi_the_paladin
      @Soturi_the_paladin Год назад

      apparently I had to have it in the same folder as the object. Makes my linework more complicated but its worth it

  • @azuretooth
    @azuretooth Год назад

    Do you have trial version?
    Is this compatible to Blender Game Engine?

  • @badbuddy0934
    @badbuddy0934 6 месяцев назад

    Do i need goo engine for this?

  • @johnasstegler198
    @johnasstegler198 Год назад

    This looks awesome man. Thx very much. Does it work in unity and other game engines as well?

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  Год назад +3

      It only works in Blender in realtime, but it can be exported as alembic!

  • @kingdesignerr
    @kingdesignerr Год назад

    Can we use this for VFX??

  • @balaurii.banatului
    @balaurii.banatului Год назад

    Will this work in cycles ?

  • @voltorian-minecraft
    @voltorian-minecraft Год назад

    *cries in rx 580
    blender 3.0+ doesn't support amd polaris gpus :c i'm using 2.93
    just to clarify something: does the trail still work if the sword is parented (via ctrl p) to something? because parenting like that makes it so its transform in the object tab doesn't change. there's also parenting via "child of" constraint

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  Год назад +1

      Yes it uses world space calculations regardless of it's parenting method :)

    • @voltorian-minecraft
      @voltorian-minecraft Год назад

      @@professorGoo thanks for the clarification! should probably upgrade my gpu soon so i can use the speed feature xd

  • @test3333-i6o
    @test3333-i6o Год назад

    is there a similar tool for maya?...if it than some one tell me....plz

  • @dwarakesh5891
    @dwarakesh5891 Год назад

    can you use this in upbge game ?

  • @WinderBlitz
    @WinderBlitz 14 дней назад

    it seems like the discount code expired...

  • @DDDD-ew4wp
    @DDDD-ew4wp Год назад

    buddy. you really need to explain us more details... i trying to put trails in weapon which is control by rigs. and its simply not moving at all.

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  Год назад

      Feel free to DM me on Twitter or email me at support@dillongoostudios.com and I'll try to help!

    • @Soturi_the_paladin
      @Soturi_the_paladin Год назад

      Have the bezier Curve parented to a bone. I have a root bone on my sword at the handle that attaches to the hand. Mine works fine that way.

  • @dcrazygeek0741
    @dcrazygeek0741 6 месяцев назад

    there is tuto to make it procedurally on yt it's not that hard if you know a lil bit of geeo node

  • @CircuitCodes
    @CircuitCodes Год назад +1

    It’s good but 56 POUNDS? nah I’m good

  • @deva_771
    @deva_771 2 года назад

    How you make this green hair virtual character??
    If you make atleast short video on it ,it will help a lot.

    • @professorGoo
      @professorGoo  2 года назад +3

      I'll try to make a tutorial about it some day, as well! It mostly uses VSeeFace and an iPhone

  • @lifeisfunpeople
    @lifeisfunpeople Год назад +2

    56 BUCKS WTF

  • @alaricpittman8440
    @alaricpittman8440 2 года назад

    I hope you liked the anime idea I sent you

  • @helper95
    @helper95 2 года назад

    First

  • @cqcumberfunnymix
    @cqcumberfunnymix Год назад

    i need help i want to make a fire sword and i don't know how to make the anime fire shader appear. ( PLZ REPLY )