That is a very good point. Also when looking at the details in the simulation I think the 1M renders are more interesting than 10M, because at some point for these stills it could've just been a bump texture on a sculpted mesh instead
I feel like it’s a Blender limitation at the moment. Don’t know how my computer compares to his, but I’ve managed to put out and render way more particles than that using Houdini. Not sure how instancing works in Blender, and if the scene he had was basically a point cloud, as it would be in houdini.
@@Polyfjord I have a feeling its the OS as the whole operating system crashed as evidence of the BSOD, so probably not hardware limited as the OS is meant to very carefully handle these things, and when it can’t handle something its meant to quit the program and not blue screen
Hello this is not really related to this video specifically but I just want to say that I absolutely adore your videos. They’re always extremely entertaining and also educational, since I’m kind of a beginner and you helped me a lot with learning blender.
The genuine level of excitement I got watching this video reminds me why I suffer through the incredibly difficult learning curve that comes with 3d art. Thank you for creating something that I can aspire to create myself one day. I love this video and thank you for just taking a moment to be somewhat unhinged in the best way and have fun on the internet.
This is a really fun video! Brings me back to when I first started using Blender and I was just creating weird stuff untill Blender crashed (which was often because of my crap PC at the time haha). Thanks for making this Polyfjord!
In the past we watched gladiators injure themselves gravely in the arena for our entertainment, today we can substitute that with others crashing their hardware.
Big tip for you: with so many objects and vertices, the viewpoint overlays are a big bottleneck, turning them OFF and just using cycles is actually way faster
The smoke simulation --> vector field technique is an amazing tool for art directing particle flow! I'm going to try to see how high I can get on my 3060ti for now, but that is such a useful tool
When he jumped up from 100k to 1M, I was thinking, these would look SUPERB if they were tetrahedrons instead of cubes and about half the size, like sparkly flecks instead of clumpy chunks! (Would also help with the rendering but we'll see if that happens, I still have half a video left to watch haha) Well, it was a neat video! I only have a 9900K and a 2080 but I kind of want to give this a try for some of my own ultrawide backgrounds (or maybe stream animations??)
when working with scenes containing milions of particles you might want to switch to command line rendering, it takes a lot more to crash these. wonder how high you could go with it
I’ve been watching your videos for a couple of years now, and I must say - you have some of the best content in this platform. All your videos are incredibly high-quality, with top tier editing, commentary, and subject material. I am never left with that feeling of “Was that really worth my time though?” after watching one of your videos. It’s a shame your channel isn’t more popular, you really deserve it my friend. As Palpy says, “We will watch your career with great interest.” Excited to see what you have to bring to this platform, and I wish you the best of luck!
I saw that in the compositor u used like 25 pins in the colorramp to get a rainbow effect but there is an easier way. Set the color ramp to "HSV" and the other value to "FAR". Then use the 2 default pins and set them to the same color. BAM! --> rainbow
Crashing during rendering is something that I am use to. Particals are really amazing when you have millions of them in a scene. I'm gonna try it with my flimsy rig. Wish me luck
I love your content man. That was a really fun one and it looked amazing. I quickly tried to replicate it and on an XDR display that glow looks absolutely sick!
A few years ago when I did freelance 3D animation, I got most of my work through people messaging me on instagram! So I think making unique content on instagram can be a good place to get started. Also a great tip in general: Start doing more of what you want to get paid to do!
This is good advice! I read something similar in the Freelance Manifesto by Joel (guy from Motion Design School) - his top advice is basically 'no-one is going to pay you for something you haven't done before', which struck a chord with me. So yeah, do what you love, show people you can do it, then (hopefully) people will pay you to do it.
100,000 particles, this shradder and a animation with physics simulation and making the emitter follow a path... In cycles.. I think I know what me new channel / game Dev logo will be..
how do you add a material to the particles? I tried adding it to the ico sphere and the cube that the particles are instancing, but they're still black and also the fluid flow/smoke sim doesn't seem to be doing anything
non im french translate please salut j'adore tes vidéos et est ce que tu peux faire un shurt et dire de tourner le téléphone pour montrer le rendue annimation please
Wow that looks great. Could you try to render it as an HDR video? (Still hoping for an tutorial on how to get an HDR video from blender) Maybe render the particles as points (these high performant, perfect spheres) to get even more?
There is a hack i’ve recently realized in order to create a rainbow effect. Select the same color on the opposite ends of the ramp (lets say red color), switch the ramp to HSV instead of RGB and change the interpolation mode from near to far. There you have it, the full light spectrum :D Cheers!
I've been trying to make this myself, but I can't figure out the vector arrows. As soon as I set the gravity, buoyancy, and heat to 0, the vectors disappear. The smoke isn't expanding like his simulation. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks!
Here's Polyfjord's answer to another comment: "Yes! Sorry, you have to enable Initial Velocity for the Smoke Emitter!" (I have been stumped for the past 15 minutes too...)
As a blender noob trying to follow along, I seem to be missing something at roughly 1:35 After changing domain size, resolution and gas buoyancy density and heat, the vector arrows completely disappear and do not reappear even after baking. Did I miss something?
When you was connecting the forcefield to the domain so that the particles would react based on smoke vector data, you went too fast. I have watched it over and over and something is wrong because the forcefield has no effect.
nice tip with the smoke simulation, what about adding the molecule addon into the mix, thou be aware that it may crash way sooner, at least that's my experience ;D
I successfully recreated this one time. Every time after I cannot get the Vector data to show up, and thus the force field doesn’t work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Exact same issue here. I've noticed when he changes the Bouyancy Density and Heat to zero, that's when my vector data disappears and then in the clip after that, he's using a totally different setup. Edit: From a comment of his further down "Yes! Sorry, you have to enable Initial Velocity for the Smoke Emitter!"
Meanwhile my Blender crashes when I try to subdivide something I've already subdivided 😂 I do only have a Ryzen 7 and an RTX2080ti with 32GB ram though. Not quite in the same ball park 😅
"If Blender crashes, this video ends" If I did that, the video would be 2 seconds long. Blender crashes whenever I switch from Object Mode to Edit Mode.
My PC isn't even as nice and I've gotten Blender to render 20 Million objects that have 30 faces. It can get way up there. But I wouldn't have dared to view it in the viewport, I left it hidden in the viewport and only could see it in the render
Just use simulation nodes and make a optimized particle system, my macbook with a 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (very bad cpu) can run 10M particle with 2 fps.
The fastest way to crash Blender: 1. Create a cube. 2. Add SubSurf modifier to it, click on the textbox and enter an insanely high amount of subdivisions, like 20. 3. Profit!
So happy for you! Five seconds for fluid bake?! For me, the rule is: start the bake, make sure it doesn't crash, blow all my fans at it, and wait for a day or so. Then realize that it's wrong, and try again.
Just tried this on my laptop (it has i7 12700h & 3070). I can't render a million cubes, the bake size is too large for my ssd to keep reading and writing. Only got one 4k image exported.
I fairly recently built a way better PC then what my last one was and my last PC HATED particles. Well, my last PC hated being used so it was fairly bad anyways, especially with how long I've had it. I couldn't do pretty much anything with them. I haven't had the chance to do anything with particles yet but I know my PC will handle it a lot better.
Can you provide the .blend file? I wanted to try it out but both my computer and my skills aren't good enough to make it and mine didn't look any good as I never got up to the colour stage. Really cool though, keep it up! :)
Hi,Polyfjord. Your videos are good. I'm curious to learn how raw powder flows and produces surface dust. I'm not sure how to create this scene. How can I use Blender to create this animation?
The timing of the crash is pure gold😂
So positive and then... :D
I know 😂
facts
**”NOO-“**
spoilers
Polyfjord is just that mad scientist of the blender community....
You got that right, brother!
Use HSL coloramp, both colours set to red and direction anti-clockwise, this will give the rainbow effect
oooooohhh awesome!! Thanks so much!!
man getting tips like this is the best part of posting videos! I appreciate it!
@@Polyfjord That's great, I love your videos and you are a huge inspiration to me!
for me the direction is "far"
@@pavlostrikaliaris9255 Yeah or far
The ending was hilarious 😂 You should definitely make this a video series, where testing different things to the limit until blender crashes
YESSSS
“How many running animations does it take to crash blender”
who could have guessed that simulating cubes would become so interesting and create artwork 😂
The whole point of the video was to crash blender, but through the journey, he birthed cool wallpapers. Massive legend.
After a point, with so many objects, it's hard to tell if it's a hardware limitation of a blender limitation
That is a very good point. Also when looking at the details in the simulation I think the 1M renders are more interesting than 10M, because at some point for these stills it could've just been a bump texture on a sculpted mesh instead
I feel like it’s a Blender limitation at the moment. Don’t know how my computer compares to his, but I’ve managed to put out and render way more particles than that using Houdini. Not sure how instancing works in Blender, and if the scene he had was basically a point cloud, as it would be in houdini.
@@Polyfjord I have a feeling its the OS as the whole operating system crashed as evidence of the BSOD, so probably not hardware limited as the OS is meant to very carefully handle these things, and when it can’t handle something its meant to quit the program and not blue screen
@@peterdagrape read that BSOD a bit more carefully, as there might be some relevant error info that suggests an "alternative" reason...
@@tlfp7587 omg I’m so stupid, I wasn’t concentrating and now I wonder where that qr code leads
My guy just made incredible wallpapers without even trying to 😂
My guy also put the full-resolution wallpapers behind a paywall
Hello this is not really related to this video specifically but I just want to say that I absolutely adore your videos. They’re always extremely entertaining and also educational, since I’m kind of a beginner and you helped me a lot with learning blender.
Thanks so much!!
@@Polyfjord 🔥🔥
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The genuine level of excitement I got watching this video reminds me why I suffer through the incredibly difficult learning curve that comes with 3d art. Thank you for creating something that I can aspire to create myself one day. I love this video and thank you for just taking a moment to be somewhat unhinged in the best way and have fun on the internet.
thank you so much for the comment man! that means a lot!!
This is a really fun video! Brings me back to when I first started using Blender and I was just creating weird stuff untill Blender crashed (which was often because of my crap PC at the time haha). Thanks for making this Polyfjord!
the cut scream when it crashes is literally perfect XD
In the past we watched gladiators injure themselves gravely in the arena for our entertainment, today we can substitute that with others crashing their hardware.
beautiful
Big tip for you: with so many objects and vertices, the viewpoint overlays are a big bottleneck, turning them OFF and just using cycles is actually way faster
The smoke simulation --> vector field technique is an amazing tool for art directing particle flow! I'm going to try to see how high I can get on my 3060ti for now, but that is such a useful tool
When he jumped up from 100k to 1M, I was thinking, these would look SUPERB if they were tetrahedrons instead of cubes and about half the size, like sparkly flecks instead of clumpy chunks! (Would also help with the rendering but we'll see if that happens, I still have half a video left to watch haha)
Well, it was a neat video! I only have a 9900K and a 2080 but I kind of want to give this a try for some of my own ultrawide backgrounds (or maybe stream animations??)
when working with scenes containing milions of particles you might want to switch to command line rendering, it takes a lot more to crash these. wonder how high you could go with it
I’ve been watching your videos for a couple of years now, and I must say - you have some of the best content in this platform. All your videos are incredibly high-quality, with top tier editing, commentary, and subject material. I am never left with that feeling of “Was that really worth my time though?” after watching one of your videos.
It’s a shame your channel isn’t more popular, you really deserve it my friend. As Palpy says, “We will watch your career with great interest.” Excited to see what you have to bring to this platform, and I wish you the best of luck!
I saw that in the compositor u used like 25 pins in the colorramp to get a rainbow effect but there is an easier way.
Set the color ramp to "HSV" and the other value to "FAR".
Then use the 2 default pins and set them to the same color. BAM! --> rainbow
adds millions of particles together and is surprised by the fluid created LOL AMAZING VID!!! thank ur GPU for its service
Crashing during rendering is something that I am use to. Particals are really amazing when you have millions of them in a scene. I'm gonna try it with my flimsy rig. Wish me luck
I love your content man. That was a really fun one and it looked amazing. I quickly tried to replicate it and on an XDR display that glow looks absolutely sick!
Hey Polyfjord can you make a Video about how you were able to do 3D for a living and how we can too? Greetings from Germany
A few years ago when I did freelance 3D animation, I got most of my work through people messaging me on instagram! So I think making unique content on instagram can be a good place to get started.
Also a great tip in general: Start doing more of what you want to get paid to do!
This is good advice! I read something similar in the Freelance Manifesto by Joel (guy from Motion Design School) - his top advice is basically 'no-one is going to pay you for something you haven't done before', which struck a chord with me. So yeah, do what you love, show people you can do it, then (hopefully) people will pay you to do it.
Man, your amazing. Definitely subbed man! Keep the grind up, I absolutely adore your energy.
At a million particles
It's like I am using blender with my i3 3220 apu😅
My rust bucket of a pc would have sounded like a freight train at the first stage.
100,000 particles, this shradder and a animation with physics simulation and making the emitter follow a path... In cycles.. I think I know what me new channel / game Dev logo will be..
His blender crashed while working on 10 M particles and there is my computer which crashes on 10 Particles😂
The day is good when Polyfjord uploads a Video
Yup lol
POV you make an excuse for ending the video, Nobody: Polyfjord: makes windows background a blue screen image, 11:27
I've tried to do this but the particles aren't moving in the same way as in the video, how do you do this?
When the scene has a million polygons, I press something
My computer:
this little maneuver gonna cost us 51 years
he was just throwin praises when....blender said , "ya wanna shock????....well here ya goooo!!!!!!!!!"
your computer is a BEAST. I can barely remesh a sphere
I know I already commented but please, please post a tutorial on this! It would blow up!
You could have hide the desktop icons for a perfect error screen. Cool nonetheless.
Yeah I guess you're right!! I just didn't want people to think it gave me a legit bluescreen, because that would mean something's really wrong
I made those prelim renders on instagram, not the method I was thinking! Fantastic video as always.
Your computer is literally every top of the line item there is. How much did it cost?
5:11 does anyone know what the song is called? Have been locking for ages and cannot find it.
What a time to crash! 😂 I’ve never seen a 4090 being pushed to its limits. Mission success I guess + some really beautiful frames there.
XD - I knew that was about to happen. I've had so many renders crash 🤣
yooo
@@skulcracka509 yooooooooo!
@@WW_Studios i think i was your 30th sub January 3 keep it up bro
@@skulcracka509 YO! That's crazy! Thx :D
how do you add a material to the particles? I tried adding it to the ico sphere and the cube that the particles are instancing, but they're still black
and also the fluid flow/smoke sim doesn't seem to be doing anything
did you figure this out?
Legend has it that this is what started global warming on earth!
non im french translate please
salut j'adore tes vidéos et est ce que tu peux faire un shurt et dire de tourner le téléphone pour montrer le rendue annimation
please
what are my eyes seeinggggg 😍😍😍 (CUBES)
Wow that looks great.
Could you try to render it as an HDR video? (Still hoping for an tutorial on how to get an HDR video from blender)
Maybe render the particles as points (these high performant, perfect spheres) to get even more?
Yes, we already know how to use EXR and Davinci but what's that for if we can't export in hdr?
There is a hack i’ve recently realized in order to create a rainbow effect. Select the same color on the opposite ends of the ramp (lets say red color), switch the ramp to HSV instead of RGB and change the interpolation mode from near to far. There you have it, the full light spectrum :D Cheers!
bro your PC costs more than my liver
My laptop would have probably crashed at or before 2:09
I've been trying to make this myself, but I can't figure out the vector arrows. As soon as I set the gravity, buoyancy, and heat to 0, the vectors disappear. The smoke isn't expanding like his simulation. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks!
Here's Polyfjord's answer to another comment: "Yes! Sorry, you have to enable Initial Velocity for the Smoke Emitter!" (I have been stumped for the past 15 minutes too...)
@@EnjoyingBacon7 Thank you so much! Can't believe I missed that.
5:48 That's normal speed of my computer!
For me blender has only ever crashed while rendering, lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while
As a blender noob trying to follow along, I seem to be missing something at roughly 1:35
After changing domain size, resolution and gas buoyancy density and heat, the vector arrows completely disappear and do not reappear even after baking. Did I miss something?
Yes! Sorry, you have to enable Initial Velocity for the Smoke Emitter!
@@Polyfjord Thanks, that did it!
When you was connecting the forcefield to the domain so that the particles would react based on smoke vector data, you went too fast. I have watched it over and over and something is wrong because the forcefield has no effect.
It's so stable at rendering and never crashes on rendering! .... Blender: Hold on...
nice tip with the smoke simulation, what about adding the molecule addon into the mix, thou be aware that it may crash way sooner, at least that's my experience ;D
Lol good point, if you want to any% speedrun Blender crashing I would for sure install as many 3rd party addons as possible and just go bananas
No more ai pls. I love this video tho
I successfully recreated this one time. Every time after I cannot get the Vector data to show up, and thus the force field doesn’t work. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Exact same issue here. I've noticed when he changes the Bouyancy Density and Heat to zero, that's when my vector data disappears and then in the clip after that, he's using a totally different setup.
Edit: From a comment of his further down "Yes! Sorry, you have to enable Initial Velocity for the Smoke Emitter!"
@@benperham I just figured that out like an hour ago. I wish I had seem this comment sooner lolol.
Amazing is always the sum of every tutorial you've ever done.
This tutorial + Twist, it was just fantastic.
Learning a lot from Polyfjord
The ending has me on the floor lol.
This animation is amazing looking
My laptop was living a healthy life before i found out this experiment !
Hello is it possible to create just the vector field like in the beginning and simulate various different fields that way? Cheers!
This was PAINFULLY fun!!! Awesome as always!
My ancient gtx 1650 tried hiding this video from me, I think it’s already crying😂
LOL I love the concept of your GPU actively hiding videos from you, to prevent you getting ideas of abusing it with ideas like this
@@Polyfjord Poor GPU has suffered through 4 years of blender, he can’t take it anymore😭
Meanwhile my Blender crashes when I try to subdivide something I've already subdivided 😂 I do only have a Ryzen 7 and an RTX2080ti with 32GB ram though. Not quite in the same ball park 😅
man i just need to apply the subsurface modifier. what do you mean 10M particles?
"If Blender crashes, this video ends"
If I did that, the video would be 2 seconds long. Blender crashes whenever I switch from Object Mode to Edit Mode.
I was just watching another one of your tutorial. How do you make every video this much good quality? You're amazing.
Next Idea: Trying to Simulate 10,000,000 Cubes in Blender on a 100$ Walmart Gaming PC
Not impressed, it doesn’t run in realtime.
No but fr, looks amazing.
My PC isn't even as nice and I've gotten Blender to render 20 Million objects that have 30 faces. It can get way up there. But I wouldn't have dared to view it in the viewport, I left it hidden in the viewport and only could see it in the render
Another Crazy Vid by the Crazy Scientist... Blender should appoint him for QA.😁😁😁
PC Specs:
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 - $1,599
Inter Core i9 - 13900KS - $699
Corsair HX1200 - $295
Samsung 990 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB * 2 - $170 * 2 == $340
Crucial DDR5 4800Mhz 32 GB * 2 - $81 * 2 == $162
Asus PROART Z690 Creator WiFi 6E - $450
Hyte Y60 Midi Tower - White - $200
Total Cost = $3745 🤑🤑🤑🤑
This has shown me how unoptimized Blender's simulations are. All of it seems to run off of CPU rather than GPU.
brb gonna go try this, my smoke is baking, be back tomorrow
His Specs:
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
CPU:Intel Core i9-13900KS
PSU: Corsair HX1200
SSD: 2x Samsung 990 PRO M.2 NVMe SSD 1 TB
RAM: Crucial DDR5 4800MHz 64GB (2x32GB)
Mobo ASUS PROART Z690 creator wifi 63
case HYTE Y90 Midi Tower - White
4090 was the last GPU that I wanted to see. How about starting with a more approachable 3060
for some reason, the fluid flow thing isn't working... I rewatched the video many times to no solution
Bruh. what do you mean slow mine's taking 1 min to add 3 Mesh/objects xD
Moin
Pretty sure it was the motion blur that caused the crash - it probably doubled the necessary memory and couldn't handle it anymore.
all that lag at the end gave me flashbacks to using blender in my old laptop xD
It was bullied. Assaulted. Deleted millions of times.
But look at where our Blender Cube is now 5:12
Just use simulation nodes and make a optimized particle system, my macbook with a 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 (very bad cpu) can run 10M particle with 2 fps.
The fastest way to crash Blender:
1. Create a cube.
2. Add SubSurf modifier to it, click on the textbox and enter an insanely high amount of subdivisions, like 20.
3. Profit!
Amatuer. I crash blender every day without even trying
So happy for you! Five seconds for fluid bake?! For me, the rule is: start the bake, make sure it doesn't crash, blow all my fans at it, and wait for a day or so. Then realize that it's wrong, and try again.
Damn. My pc would’ve crushed just at 1000 particles
I love your content 😘😘😘😘
There is a real sense of exploration in this video; to cyberspace and beyond!
Just tried this on my laptop (it has i7 12700h & 3070). I can't render a million cubes, the bake size is too large for my ssd to keep reading and writing. Only got one 4k image exported.
I fairly recently built a way better PC then what my last one was and my last PC HATED particles. Well, my last PC hated being used so it was fairly bad anyways, especially with how long I've had it. I couldn't do pretty much anything with them. I haven't had the chance to do anything with particles yet but I know my PC will handle it a lot better.
Thank you!
Getting happy every time a new video pops up from you!
Can you provide the .blend file? I wanted to try it out but both my computer and my skills aren't good enough to make it and mine didn't look any good as I never got up to the colour stage. Really cool though, keep it up! :)
This video has given me a few ideas for blender. Thanks fjord
Hi,Polyfjord. Your videos are good. I'm curious to learn how raw powder flows and produces surface dust. I'm not sure how to create this scene. How can I use Blender to create this animation?
His computer fans lost about five years. His GPU probably lost about six. Thermal paste, here we come!
Ahh, nothing beats the taste of crispy fried 13900ks with melted 4090 and slight sprinkle of cracked ddr5 memory.
The last part of this video could be a meme hahhaha, so good! I love this