Create Stunning Procedural Electricity Effect in Blender- TUTORIAL
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2021
- My take on the electricity effect in Blender using Dynamic Paint + Shader
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For those looking to do this tutorial in 4.1 and can't find the "vertex colors", you have to use the "Add Color Attribute" with "Face Corner" and "Byte Color" to achieve the same result as in the tutorial ! o/
Thank you very much Simon, as a total noob to blender, I love your tutorials so thank you VERY much for the knowledge !
dear god, what an MVP here. Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you!
and vertex color node is changed with color Attribute
thank you sir, I'd probably crack my skull on the wall if u didn't comment
mine stoped working at 4:00 when playing with distance value, it didn't work
My favorite thing about blender is that it changes so much and so often that following a tutorial only2 years old is damn near impossible :)
hahaha i'm 2mins in and already i've given up
For anyone trying to follow this now - everything works ok with the color attributes instead of vertex color. If you're not seeing your brush affecting your canvas at the beginning, set the distance attribute to something below 1.
I can only see the electric material in "material preview" when i go to render or "render view" it just shows a black material. What did i do wrong?
Thank you for the tutorial! I'm completely new to Dynamic Paint so this helped immensely.
thanks, your tutorials are great, they always have something new and interesting,
please keep sharing your ideas with us
Wow thanks ! That's like the nicest thing I've read so far. Made my day :)
thanx man , all your uploaded shader are siiick , thanx this effect here will help me so much !
the best tutorial I've been watched I think ,really help me a lot!🥰
Man, this is incredible. Thank you
Thanks a lot for your tutorial!
It really helped me a lot, looks exactly like what i've been loking for
Amazing tutorial and super awesome looking!
Love it! Thanks for this tutorial 👍🏻
I know this was about electricity but that quick toon shader blew my noob mind lmao. So useful. Great tutorial, no issues for me in 3.4
Thank you so much! If you don't find "Vertex Colors" at 1:43 just go to 2:16 and choose the auto-generated "Col" that Blender creates, when you just click at the "Paintmap Layer" box . The same at 3:33 : Just search for "Color Attribute" instead of "Vertex Color". This worked perfectly for me!
yeah, i used same workflow, because in blender 3.5 something has changed, but i managed to solve the way of the nodes, but my screen is just black, no blue color like showen here 4:10 ...anyone same problem ?, i used the auto generated vertex color and connected it with color atribute, but it dosent work. thanks all ciao
ok just switch and follow the video, i wrote it to fast xD - no problem with this video ! epic thing ! thanks all
Is it possible that now it created only something called "attrubute"? when you click on the Paintmap Layer?
@@blackswan6386 bro help me i couldn't solve this
did you solve it?@@petitciel
Thank you so much for this great tutorial!
dude this was so awesome
Thank you very much for an interesting tutorial ! Good luck in the development of the channel and 3D skill .
Thanks !
🌞This effect is really cool, thank you so much for sharing... I loved the result!!!💯⚡🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Wow....Really great stuffs....i just came across your channel and i must say i loe every single videos
Thankyou so much! This helps a lot!
@Simon 3D You are awesome man
amazing man. thanks . you are super teacher
Really am blessed with this tuts...really a great thanks and love from my side....
very nice explanation thankyou
this was exactly what I was looking for. Hope I can do it.
oh yeah this is advanced. I guess not really for beginners I have to google how to do just the simple things
Thank you!! I am working on a 3D brain simulation where neurons charge up upon reaching their action-potential threshold. This is exactly what I needed!!
That sounds really cool.
stunning :D
Hey man, I really appreciate you for uploading your files to be able to look at them. I followed everything in the tutorial and for some reason the very first part woulnd't show the blue paint brush, not sure if it was something I did wrong but I can confirm after downloading the file it does work with the latest update
Thank you for sharing
Thanks dude
amazing!!
i loved, thanks
!! VERTEX COLOR IN BLENDER 3.2 IS CALLED "COLOR ATTRIBUTE" !!
still doesn't work when increasing the distance from the uv sphere as a brush
This is such a great tutorial!🤩
be impressive ! My character can load electric power now. Thank you.
i didnt know that this was what I needed to get back into blender but damn
More contents effects please. i really like to learn from you sir. you explanation so clear and easy to understand.
Thanks ! I am trying to make new content every week ^^
For those having transparency issue in Cycles where broken black meshes are showing
Go to Render Properties>Light Paths>Max Bounces>Transparent and increase the number until its done
Very nice! I think Blender should move in the direction of interactive animation type stuff, like this!
I would love to see that as well !!
This is incredible, absolutely great tutorial. For some reason, when I'm editing keyframes of moving the plane through an object to make it look like it is lighting up with electricity, it will completely stop working and I have to ctrl+z back through keyframes until it begins working again. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong, but I am a beginner and do think that it's a user error lol
On the 2d version couldn't you make it so the 2d plane of the effect was always parallel with the camera. so no matter how you moved it it was facing the right way to the camera.
Yeo I could use constraints for that ^^ good point :) see, we are all learning together ^^
If anyone would be willing to walk through this one, I'd love to see it
Ill think about coming back and review this idea for another video !
This is known in the game industry as "billboards"
The issue with those is they may clip into other objects as they rotate towards the canera
5:56 is the most interesting tid-bit for me. Being able to control the brightest and darkest parts of a grayscale is something I always often find myself in need of, when working with materials and images. However, if I am not working with an image editor or a material-editing package frequently, I forget what every blend mode does. I wish there was a small table of graphs that shows the transformation of input data being an image and a grayscale gradient to output data with transformations being different blend modes. Much appreciation to anyone that can provide a link of something matching my description. Not just from me but rest of the community on this channel!
anyone having on cycles issues just.
1 click on your electric effect on your viewport
2 click on vertex groups
3 in vertex colours press +
jobs a good un 😁
THANK YOU SO MUCH I LITTERLY LOOKED ALL OVER THE PLACE TO FIND IT!!
very nice
Hello, your video has helped me a lot but... when I put it in "cycles" the rays are not visible, what do I do?
Thanks
With this, I want to see someone do these 2 things
1. Have a character run with the lightning effect (like Sonic the Hedgehog)
2. Make a scene of a huge blast from the effect(like Goku)
This is such an awesome video.
Does anyone know how to add the electric effect onto another object?
Is there a way to export the object that has the lightning effect on? The suzanne mesh for example, if I export it as an OBJ, it loses the lightning effect. I found this out by importing it back to another blender file I was making. Amazing video though!
thanks.. it will be nice if use it as particle
very subtle
A bit late to the game, but just watched this and the idea is brilliant to me. I have a lot of ideas what to do with this.
A note on trails in 3D space. Couldn't you just use the same technique as the 2D plane. But use a 3D cube. Since your using 4D noise (the W) then the noise pattern should be the same in 3D space as the driving noise uses 4D space for the shift.
For this you would need a cube with a lot of geometry, which might be a drag in viewport. But in theory it should work the same.
Then i would have to use volumetrics, and that wouldnt work in real time, but definetely an area to explore :)
Thanku brother I'll tag the animation
nice bro,,
Thanks dude ^^
mantap :D
Dude this is awesome!!! Everything was working smoothly for me tho up until the bit with the transparency, the texture disappeared, electricity and background, like it should- but the black background stayed in the masked bit. Using 3.6 btw! :D
this happened to me - if you watch the video again, I made the mistake of attaching the main texture Colour ramp "Alpha" node to the "Greater Than" math node - instead you need to attached the Colour ramp "Colour" to the Math node.
Bro how did u fix the color atrributes change in the new version of blender ???
I have followed your tutorial, and everything work brilliantly (thanks) - however, if I render a single frame, I see the electrical effect, but when I render an animation, the effect does not render - any ideas?
Awesome effect. The vertex color doesn't seem to exist any more and is now 'color attributes' what are the steps to take to get the same result to get the dynamic pain working properly?
But In v2.93.0 I Found Vertex Colours
Thankful🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 sir
This is great, can this work with Cycles, seems there is a shadow with cycles.
Even With power of GT430 and my computer which sometimes barely run 4 tabs chrome. I somehow still be able to do it with out freeze or crash. thx for tutorial :D
Welp i take it back
Maybe it too shy to the camera
I just found your channel and love what you are doing. It would be really cool if you could update this tutorial to work with Blender 4.x. I had a hard time making it past 2 mins 30 seconds. I don't see the Color Attributes showing up on the Output Painting Layer.
Maybe I will, just hard to find time recently :/
Amazing effect!
I was just wondering how do I add it to my project since I downloaded it?
More specifically how do I connect it to an object like in my case a Minecraft skin?
It can only be used inside of blender, if you import your skin to blender simply follow the tutorial but instead of suzannes head use your minecraft skin
Awesome tutorial Simon! Thanks for sharing it. I just have a problem with the trail: at 16:50 when you click dissolve on the physics panel, the trail actually dissolves after those 30 frames. Mine doesn't, and i don't understand why ;( any clue? (Blender 3.3.4 here)
This is probably not helpful to you anymore but in case someone else has the same problem: I unticked "slow" within the dissolve settings and also unticked "dry" (the option below the dissolve settings) and it seemed to work using Blender 3.5.0
Any way we could maybe get a 4.0 tutorial like this?? Really like the effect but getting caught up with changes between versions
Same here !
yep@@TetedeMort666
One more help i needed how to assign vertex colors in blender 3.2 coz the ui has changed and i'm assigning its not working
The effect is not coming when i do the rendering in cycles can you please tell how to use it in cycles?
I turned on Nod Wrangler but vertex color didn't show up, why is that?
Can this work in cycles
does this work with cycles? I wish people would directly write in the description box which render engines work
how do you make it go around selected objects
thank you, but vertex atributes change in the last version so i cant folow. :c
Vertex Color not showing for me... how do you get it on?
not working, mesh volume+proximity not working...when I change distance it doesn't do anything
I found an issue, basically if you enable Freestyle the lines are going to be draw around the invisible mesh and not around the visible lighting shapes, so the render turns into a mess.
If anyone knows how to get around that, if it's possible, let me know.
Thanks for the tutorial, it helps me a lot, but for some reason my animation is like 1 fps and I have 5ghz cpu and rtx3060 12gb gpu. Maybe its the settings in the shader view where I adjusted the size of the texture or idk. Any solutions to fix that? Thanks
Hmmm i honestly have no idea. Is that only for this effect or are you having performance trouble in general in blender ?
@@Simon3D I kinda figuret out why it was happening. I just deleted that two monkey objects (model and the model with lighting texture) and it was way better. So there is no problem right now. 👍
Glad you figured it out :))
I tried to simply switch to cycles but the effect disapeared in render preview but it appears in viewport shading. What should i do??
You have to follow the last steps that created a new Vertex Color in the electricty and then go into the material and you will have to change his Vertex Color into yours i had the same problem and then with this it worked!!!
I got lost in the vertex colors part, like what is that?
ooh man this is awesome. i appreciate it a lot! i have a problem tho. when i switch emission and Translucent BSDF ( on 19:23 ) what was black on my plane gets brown and setting the blend mode to alpha clip does not make transparent. any idea how to fix ? thanks a bunch. cheers
Send me the screenshot on twitter ill see what i can do :)
@@Simon3D ooh man you are the best, thanks for taking the time to help individuals like this, i learned a ton from this video, but had it side to side it with the file you provided and tweaked it. So thanks again but it wont be needed. Super hyped on all of your stuff im looking forward to your next project. Cheers and thanks again!
Haha glad you figured it out !! ^^
@@Simon3D how did you solve it? I'm having the exact same problem
Send me screenshot of what problem you got in dm on twitter and also of your node tree (especially the part where the emission and transparent is plugged into mix shader
can i add this effect into any model?? even same the monkey electric ?
there's no vertex color node in blender 4.1
maybe use canvas volume insted of plane to make efect in space?
Hmm maybe
Were i can make a layer weight
Great tutorial, i'm just having a strange issue.
When i render out the image, its showing the whole canvas and not taking away the mask.
In the material my mask is fine and in rendered view it is working as normal. But when i render the animation, the entire material shows.
Hmmm please send me screenshots on twitter and we will try to figure it out there :)
@@Simon3D figured it out. uhhhh, so apparently at some point i duplicated the plane before the mask setup, and then hid the plane. Getting rid of the duplicate plane fixed it. haha
Haha happens :D glad you figured it out ^~^
Thanks a lot for this. How do you even come up with this stuff
I wish I knew.... if o had more ideas for videos i would pump them once a week hahaha
@@Simon3D About ideas...
If you read manhwas, they have good amount of vfx drawn in. You could take ideas from there
I'm struggling to get a "sword slash energy" effect that i saw in a manhwa, and that's what led me to your channel
👍
Great tutorial. I've just purchased your procedural energy aura effect and I'm having problems applying it to my object. Is there any way you can help me. I've appended it to my project but dont know what specifically to use from it to obtain the electricity effect. Thx.
Dm me on tt and we'll try to solve it there
Dm me on TT and we'll try to solve it there
@@Simon3D ok. I will. Thanks again
Hey i just came accros this video now but how could i take the same effect but use it in cycles
ofc you oculd but it wouldnt look the same and it would need some adjustments
can i make this and put it on after effects on a real life human?
yo the circular isn't appearing, no matter how much distance I input
Please can somebody help? I'm using 3.3 where Vertex Colors has been replaced with Color Attributes, when I add my Color Attribute I'm not seeing it as an option to select in Paintmap Layer. Has anybody else experienced this? What was your solution? It basically hinders my ability to continue with the tutorial
Hey, sadly i didnt play around with 3.3 yet.
@@Simon3D Do you think you can figure out how to fix the problem and let us know?
Currently im a bit too swamped with my work so i barely have any time for anything else :
same problem so I guess my tutorial expierience ends here after 1:30 minutes ;( weird that nobody in the comments has a solution
@@Simon3D GLAD YOU DINT CONTINUE HALFASS MORON
Hello, one question, if we want to "enclose" the blend mode so that other objects in the scene are visible and not dark, how can I solve it? I hope you can help me, thank you very much. ♥
I have no idea what you mean :( what you mean other objects in the scene are dark?
please help, i having issue at the first, nothing change, after add vertex color on the plane, and move to the uv sphere and slide the distance value on the brush dynamic paint
Whats the problem ?
@@Simon3D when shading tab, i cant see the blue circle arround uv sphere when we slide the distance brush
You should try geometry nodes and see what you can do there
I dabble with it, but probably won't do any video about it before its official release
Does this work for Cycles?
Hey, is this a good shader for games? Specifically really low poly games like roblox?
I think so, yeah
15:35 why my "w" always is 0 it not working T_T
Hey simon, this shader not showing in k-cycles. how can fix this ?
Hey, sorry but I dont know for sure, I made it woth eevee in mind but I think if you google that, there should be a way to make it work in cycles
how do i add this to any object?
Just follow the steps but instead of suzanne use any object you want ^~^
when I put it in cycles it is not transparent, do you know what it could be?
Its meant for eevee render engine, so yeah it wont work out of the box in cycles
@@Simon3D thanks, I will try to find a solution
I have a weird problem! In render view and when I render, there's some "dark matter" with the electricity material. You can't see it in material preview, it's black like dark matter
I figured out the problem. It was because of cycles. It works in eevee without that extra weird dark stuff. If anything, if someone could find out how to do in cycles that would be cool but I'm happy with the results now
@@ImaNinjaMofo im facing the same issue
@@AdityaSharma-oj5fi It is because it only works in Eevee I found.