Blender + Animation Nodes Tutorial - Create a Plexus/Ubertracer/IK particles effect for free!
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2017
- In Today's Blender Tutorial Theo shows us how to get that sweet sweet Plexus/Ubertracer/IK particle look inside blender using Jacques Lucke's Animation Nodes addon. Sit back, relax and enjoy the motion graphics/visual effects goodness!
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Each day a new AN tutorial shows up is truly a blessed day! Thx!!!!
Your tutorials are great!
They are not only informative but they're also entertaining to watch.
This tutorial was great because I was able to follow it even though I know nothing about Animation Nodes or programming. Thanks.
Really enjoyed the tutorial. The extra time was great to see your thought process. You have a great style, really easy to listen to. Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Great teaching style.....very helpful tutorial on getting heads around this amazing add-on.
Awesome tutorial! Subscribed. Keep them coming!
Instant subscription. Awesome work!
Awesome work dude, simple and awesome!
I was looking for this exactly. Almost burned all me neurons thinking of a way to do it wether with nodes or from a python script. You deserve all the thumbs up sir!
AN is awesome. I'm beginning to learn it and tutorials like this are a great help. Thank you for it.
legit fantastic tut
Theo, I just found your site looking for Blender stuff and Subscribed. Your tutorials are very well done, with a nice dash of humor too. Please keep the Blender stuff coming. I would have one request: that you label Blender tuts with the word "Blender" in the title so we can search/find your stuff. Many thanks.
These blender tutorials are dope.
"Just a bit of fog man..." 🤣
Love your conversational style, and of course your content rocks!
Thanks for sharing your teaching.
Pure awesomeness!!! Thank you!
thats awesommm.. thanks for the tutorial!
Great tutorial!!! Thanks, feeling blessed! ...... thanks...
Thanks for this video!
That’s really cool!
Subscribing.
Keep them Blender vids coming!!! :D
Quick simple and easy tysm...
I've just subbed for this awesome stuff, now I'm gonna browse your channel and request if I can't find something I need lol.
Thanks for the really useful tut :)
I just watched this tutorial and followed all the instructions. However I was having the same issue as a couple of other people in the comments, when it comes to rendering the animation. I am using Blender 2.81 and there are no problems when trying to render a single image in either Cycles or EEVEE. However, when you try to render the animation in Cycles or EEVEE, the spines do not show up at all. The fix that I found that works for me is to click on View>Viewport Render Animation. This was able to render out a PNG sequence. However something to remember, is that if you want a decent looking render, you need to make sure your viewport samples are higher. Oh and don't forget to disable/hide Overlays for the viewport render. Good luck!!!!!
It's something I wanted to make for months ! I could not find any way to it in an automatic manner. Nice video and thank you !
great video.. thanks for this
This is awesome.
AMAZING!
wow what a quality content video ! thumbs up .. another good usage of is to create beams for roof construction from a simple subdivided plane ...
so good, thanks you so much
awesome thankyou.
we have very similar speaking styles. it's nice to hear oneself instruct oneself.
Was looking for that For more zan week 👍
Nice!
That was fun & wild
Hey I would really like to know how to apply this to a mesh any idea
Beautiful...¡¡¡¡
' 70 mm film for zero dollars!' LOL excellent tutorial man !
Do you know how to get each particle to look like a sphere at each connecting joint of the plexus splines.
Nice! I was trying to create simple morphing animation, but i can't use this nodes to keyed particles. Why?
does it also work with keyed particles? in my case the particles move but the lines stick to the emitter pls help :s
What is different now in Blender 2.8? Please help!
I love this tried it and it work forget adobe plexus and their high prices you earned a like and sub from me THANK YOUUUUU !!!!!!!!!!!!
Rather then the particles flying away from the sphere, is there a way to make them just slightly, subtly, ambiently make them move consistently on the whole screen? For example, something like Assassin's Creed
Is it possible to add 'Triangle faces' in between these 'vertices' with different opacity levels ? that would complete the whole look and feel! Can someone please help??
How to add particle system from Object in blender 2.9? I am struggling from that point itself and unable to move forward with the tutorial
how can these be applied to an obj file or jut how can it be applied to a mesh
WOW
The Fun Thing is, this is even more powerful and flexible than Plexus(i dont know this uber Thing but i dont think it will be better too)
good
Kind of lost at the Animation Nodes part around 4:00. Blender 2.8's interface gives me some different option from what's shown here.
if i render an animation it doesnt show the splines anymore even though in a still frame it does... can someone help?
Hi, great and really easy to do. How did you came up with the 'Find Close Points' Node ? I can't see it in the lists, where did you find that ?
Thanks a lot and happy blendering.
You can find it on the list, Shift+A >> Mesh >> Operators >> Find Close Points. Or just search using Ctrl+A on the node window. Hope it helps :D.
Anybody want to talk about how to export this as an obj sequence to use in Element 3d?
Is it possible to do that with blender 2.9.3 with itracer add on?
Not working for animations nodes for blender2.8
Is something like this possible using geometry nodes?
I followed all the steps and the splines are not appearing using the newest version of blender 2.81
This no longer works in 2.8v blender. Unless there is an extra step somewhere. I was unable to get it to work.
Ya kinda same here. It works but at some point it disappears. It might be the bake sys comes in conflict with the AN Nodes.
idk how to get that addon to work
Hi Theo, first thanks! I have a question, at 5.27, is it possible to grow the lines in between the particles? So not the lines at once but growing with an envelope? Thanksssss!!
have it ;-)
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+MiesnerMedia if you haven't figured it out by now, anisotropy of a volume affects the angles at which light bounces off the fog. positive anisotropy will make light pass through with less changes to its angle, whereas negative anisotropy will make it more likely light will be bounced off the way it came. When you want to make the fog less severe, turn down the density. [If you're feeling extra saucy, use a noise, musgrave, or voronoi texture for the density mapped to the geometry position, then multiply it by itself or similar generated texture several times and finally divide it until you can see through it an plug that into density or use a similar technique on the anisotropy to give an unnatural appearance]
Nice! Thanks dlfon99! I saucy is my middle name, I'll have to give that a try ;)
If you're wondering, the special technique works in eevee too.
Theo, compliments, like your nodes! I have a simple kind of plexus but now I need it in Lightwave 3d, so I tried Alembic but don't see anything. What would be the way to exchange these objects? Baking? Can you help me? Thanks!!!!
Please anyone???
Great tutorial I love the easy style, however, I tried this in 2.79 and 2.81 but cannot create the splines in either version
The better way is to use objects as instances in AN and not the particle sys. (So basically you make your own particle sys in AN) With the wiggle node you can achieve also some braid/turbulence and all transformations you want with AN Nodes.
Hey ! I hope anyone can help but when I follow this tutorial and try and render the animation nodes out as a sequence/video it doesn't appear but when I render a single frame it does, any ideas ?
Please read my comment posted today 5 Jan 2020. I was able to come up with a fix.
i can't install the add on in mac blender 2.79b, but after installing the add on at the moment to activate the check box, it throws an error "there are multiple versions of add on installed" but i tried everything reinstalling blender, coping the add on manually, nothing works! any suggestion? please help!
i got the same issue
can you animate it please
I have the blender version 2.78 and 2.81 but on 2.78 there is no princibled BSFD and on the 2.81 it shows a gazzilion errors about the addon. Can somebody please help me or should i just update my 2.78 blender version?
bit late to the party
but if it's still of any help
you need the animation_nodes_v2_1_windows_py36.zip file,
github.com/JacquesLucke/animation_nodes/releases
but if you've tried to install an older version before it will still fail, so you need to remove the "animation nodes" directory from:
"%appdata%\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.78\scripts\addons\"
folder location could be a bit different on your machine, but should be in %appdata% (\user\username\appdata
oaming\blender...)",
i wasn't using 2.78 myself (just changed the name of the folder to 2.78 above)
so just try %appdata% and find the blender foundation folder in case the above folder does not work, if you even use windows.
i have it working on the latest buildbot version of 2.79 (26-05-2018)
can someone help me how it can be done in blender 2.8? I followed the instructions but nothing in the wievport
Try it in Blender 2.80.60 (04.30.2019).
@@AlmazWorks Thanks! Solved it for me - your comment should be higher up. ^^
@MiesnerMedia or anybody who reads this, would there be a way to have the splines between the two vertices be affected by gravity without changing the way those vertices move? I hope what I'm trying to say is clear enough. I think that would give it a more organic feel to it. I believe that should be possible using animation nodes, but I just don't know where to start.
thank you in advance to anyone who can help ;)
Hey Charles!
Unfortunately I don't know of a way to do this in blender. If it were you would do it by subdividing the spline in animation nodes several times (which I'm not sure how to do), then converting it to a mesh (which can still be done procedurally in AN), Then putting it in a cloth solver with the particles/vertices set as pins (which I'm not sure how to do). Also from my little tests I haven't been able to get much to happen dynamics wise with this effect.
You can achieve this in Houdini. Here is a tutorial on how to do it in there: www.entagma.com/yarnworks-wire-solver-and-constraint-networks-in-dops/
thank you so much for answering! i'll look in to it further then. if I were to find a way to do it I'll let you know ;)
I wish you the best of luck my friend. Keep me up to date!
another tutorial that doesn't working anymore.. what happens to animation nodes in blender 2.8 ??? any tutorials I trying not working or having missing nodes in some cases...
The Animation Nodes addon works with 2.8 and good news there are still updates
do you know if there's any way for the splines to be curved and not just straight lines?
Would love to know if this is possible
I figured out a method: use the Spline from Points node instead of Splines from Edges. Then add a Smooth Bezier Spline node between the Spline from Points node and the Curve Object Output node.
10:50 and my laptop can't take it :(
I've been messing around with fusion but with 0 3d experience I haven't really committed to it, would it be worth swapping to blender or committing to fusion? Are they even used for the same stuff or do they have different purposes?
I would say blender is a much better bet. The only thing that really interests me about fusion is some of the optical flow stuff in the full version. Fusion is probably a better compositor, but not by a whole lot, and if you are just looking for 3d stuff then blender all the way.
-Theo
MiesnerMedia skruby cheers mate sounds like a knowledge of both would help, blender for 3d work and fusion for putting it Into footage
Question: What would be the trick without a particle emitter but just with my own set of points?
Is this possible? Thanks!
yes
@@matka5130 How then?
Decrease fog density to 0.1-0.01
You're hella funny my guy
I don't know why but in Blender 2.8 it doesn't work for me. I exactly copied the node tree but it somehow won't apply and the splines don't show up.
*Robin Lemhöfer* , works for me .. mind that eevee (lookdev and rendered mode) doesnt update mid animation, change to chaded display as long as tweaking the setup
@@goku21youtub Tanks for the answer, though it was my fault since I didn't press the + button on the curve object output node😅.
I tried this with two different versions of the Nodes addon, 1.6 and 2.0, and it simply doesn't work, period. It's not drawing the splines.
Tried again, from scratch, following instructions to the letter. Nothing. Curves are a no show.
Hi! I was going through the same problem, i am using the 2.1 version of the addon. What worked for me was reseting the object in the "partycle system from object" node, and then adding the "curve object output" node again, and then it misteriously worked.
@@leonardofalaschini1782 Same here, didn't manage to get the Splines.
UGH. I followed this tut and Blender crashes every time I try to render. :(
This is a known issue, if you want to render in eevee just render your viewport, with some nice bloom effects..:D
I almost emptied his recycle bin.
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In 30 seconds you managed to setup the worst case scenario scene in cycles and people wonder why their renders are so slow xD #qualitytutorialsarethereason
nothin happened when i made the spline
Did u select the Emitter Object (The Ico Sphere) one the Particle Systems from object node (the first node)
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