Wonderful work! I have a hard time imagining how hot was your computer and how much energy you had to burn to render all of this! :) Particles look incredible. How hard it was to bake and watch if everything is correct? How many failed trails? And why no smoke at all, while you experimented with fluids already? ;)
I don't have that many failed attempts anymore because I have been simulating particles for years and get it pretty close the first time. But the first time I simulate it, I almost always do a test run with 5-10% of the particles so that I can simulate much quicker and make sure I have the keyframes set up correctly and to make sure I will have the correct amount of particles. I typically do one test run and then tweak it and up the number of particles to the amount I think it needs and then watch it simulate for a few minutes to make sure I guessed correctly and then let it do it's thing. It's rare I do a full bake more than once. Typically my particle bakes last an hour to as many as 10 hours. But seldom longer than that. I seldom do smoke sims because I am not good at them. Plus the few that I have done don't look good and they take a lot longer to bake and way longer to render.
@@piotao Also another little trick for estimating volume of particles is if you have let's say 1000 particles, if you make the particles half the size, you will need about 8 times more particles to be about the same volume of particles. That trick can be used to help figure out how many particles you are going to need. Essentially you can use a much fewer amount of larger particles to gauge how many particles you will need for the same volume but having smaller particles.
@@BlenderRookie yeah, I understand. However, is the size not messing with fluid particles? Their rest density will change, etc, influencing at least the stability of the sim
In all likelihood the reason you can't install the molecular plus add on is you are using an older version of Blender or Molecular Plus that are not compatible with each other or the python version is a mismatch. I use Blender 3.6 for all my molecular sims and I get my molecular plus addon from here 1.13.2 github.com/u3dreal/molecular-plus/releases There has been a lot of changes to blender over the last few years and addon makers have been chasing the changes in order to keep their addons working. It's been kinda confusing.
@@denizcarta9915 But if you use Blender 4.0 you will need molecular plus version 1.14.1. They changed python versions somewhere around 4.0 and 4.1 and it caused a compatibility issue. Essentially: 1.13.1 for older than 4.0 1.14.1 for 4.0 1.15.1 for 4.1
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Awesome job! I love seeing what the capabilities of physics in Blender can do. Keep up the good work!
Thank you.
i love seeing these, I watched this with my nephews and nieces and they enjoyed it, thanks sir
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Wonderful work! I have a hard time imagining how hot was your computer and how much energy you had to burn to render all of this! :) Particles look incredible. How hard it was to bake and watch if everything is correct? How many failed trails? And why no smoke at all, while you experimented with fluids already? ;)
I don't have that many failed attempts anymore because I have been simulating particles for years and get it pretty close the first time. But the first time I simulate it, I almost always do a test run with 5-10% of the particles so that I can simulate much quicker and make sure I have the keyframes set up correctly and to make sure I will have the correct amount of particles. I typically do one test run and then tweak it and up the number of particles to the amount I think it needs and then watch it simulate for a few minutes to make sure I guessed correctly and then let it do it's thing. It's rare I do a full bake more than once.
Typically my particle bakes last an hour to as many as 10 hours. But seldom longer than that.
I seldom do smoke sims because I am not good at them. Plus the few that I have done don't look good and they take a lot longer to bake and way longer to render.
@@BlenderRookie thanks, using as low as possible is OP and so clever I did not think about it, lol. THX x2
@@piotao Also another little trick for estimating volume of particles is if you have let's say 1000 particles, if you make the particles half the size, you will need about 8 times more particles to be about the same volume of particles. That trick can be used to help figure out how many particles you are going to need. Essentially you can use a much fewer amount of larger particles to gauge how many particles you will need for the same volume but having smaller particles.
@@BlenderRookie yeah, I understand. However, is the size not messing with fluid particles? Their rest density will change, etc, influencing at least the stability of the sim
@@piotao Sure, it changes a lot. Which is why I am only talking about using it as a means to estimate volume.
Amazing level of detail. I didn't know force fields could separate blender molecular particles by color groups. Do you happen to have a link for tut?
Yeah I have a tut. I believe I used particle fluids as the example but it works the same with molecular. ruclips.net/video/36Kx6x5_VGg/видео.html
genius stuff , i wish i could do stuff like that, cant even install the molecular add on in my blender
In all likelihood the reason you can't install the molecular plus add on is you are using an older version of Blender or Molecular Plus that are not compatible with each other or the python version is a mismatch. I use Blender 3.6 for all my molecular sims and I get my molecular plus addon from here 1.13.2
github.com/u3dreal/molecular-plus/releases
There has been a lot of changes to blender over the last few years and addon makers have been chasing the changes in order to keep their addons working. It's been kinda confusing.
@@BlenderRookie i see, i will try it with blender 4.0 keep going this genius work
@@denizcarta9915 But if you use Blender 4.0 you will need molecular plus version 1.14.1. They changed python versions somewhere around 4.0 and 4.1 and it caused a compatibility issue.
Essentially:
1.13.1 for older than 4.0
1.14.1 for 4.0
1.15.1 for 4.1