Questions tagged [force-fields]
Force fields can be used to add effect to many of Blender's physics systems (Such as wind to blow particles and cloth, turbulence to smoke, etc.)
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Simulating blocks jumping out of a box with Rigid Bodies
I need to recreate small blocks jumping out of a box and falling onto the ground.
I have at least 30 blocks. Therefore, I thought of avoiding manual keyframing and using Rigid Body sims.
The first ...
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Forces from Force-Field Settings inside of Particle System do not work past Frame 100 [closed]
I am having trouble with force-fields (in the particle system itself) in that the function entirely as expected until frame 100, where they stop all force entirely and the particles go Limp. I have a ...
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How can I prevent colliding Cloth Objects from wrinkling each other?
I am trying to create a model of paper being blown by wind using a model with a Cloth Modifier and a Force Field of wind.
However, when I play them in animation, the Cloth objects that collide with ...
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The problem of simple cloth objects penetrating each other
There are multiple cloth objects which are raised by two different force fields. Both cloth objects are physics-based, and the object collision of those cloth is 0.02m.
I have a problem with them ...
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Getting rigidbodies to react to force-fields
I am new to Blender, and am trying to make a physics sandbox.
My approach is to use rigidbodies that are attracted by force fields to form materials and structures.
My original approach to achieving ...
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Can I make custom force field that only rotates particles around an object?
Hi I want to make particles only rotate around an object. And I also want them to follow a simple equation
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F \propto {1 \over r^2}
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where $r$ is the distance of each particle from the object. Is ...
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how to make particles not to be effected by any kind of force field
I need a way to make a specified mesh or particles of a mesh not to be effected by any kind of force fields. But i need the particles to be effected by velocity at the same time
any kind of help would ...
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How can I recreate this emitting/rigid body/force field animation?
I was wondering is it possible to make this kind of animation with this effect?
As I understand, its the particle system emitter + force field and rigid body? but whenever I give the mesh a rigid ...
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Hair particle orientation flips when responding to wind
I am trying to set up a scene with grass modelled as a hair particle system which responds to a wind field. The grass moves in the wind just fine, but as the strength of the wind changes from positive ...
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Need to achieve specific particles behavior that will embrace the object
I am trying to force hair particles to clump in groups, then embrace the object from different sides, and when the object ends the tips should become curly (or turbulent). I tried a lot of force ...
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Cloth simulator not reacting properly
Tried using cloth sim to make a flag, seen on tutorials that right after applying cloth sim, pinning vertices and hit play, the flag should fall down because there's no wind blowing into it. But for ...
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How can I export a video of a wind-blown object shot by a moving camera? (2) [duplicate]
How can I export a video of a wind-blown object shot by a moving camera?
The objects I prepared is several papers looking objects. They are inside the square wire frame and constantly blown by a wind ...
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How can I export a video of a wind-blown object shot by a moving camera?
How can I export a video of a wind-blown object shot by a moving camera?
The objects I prepared is several papers looking objects. They are inside the square wire frame and constantly blown by a wind ...
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how to make sure that the forcefield does not affect particle system
I'm working on a project which uses forcefield for soft body, but it is also effecting my particle system. how do i make sure it does not impact the particle system.
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Force field not affecting falling rigid body in motion
I am trying to use a force field to affect a falling rigid body mesh. The mesh is falling in a direct line on the Z axis and yet when it passes through the force field, it proceeds unaffected, no ...
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Keyframe on force strength not working past frame 100 [duplicate]
I am making an animation and I need to explode an object so I did a cell fracture then gave the pieces a rigid body as active and it seems to work ok. I then added a force field force. I want the ...
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Make Wind Force Field Only Effect 1 Object's Emitted Particles [duplicate]
I want each wind force field to only effect the particles emitted by the closest 1 of the 2 planes. As the file is right now, each wind source effects both plane's emitted particles. I want the top ...
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How can I make string tighten around a soft object
I've used blender for a couple months, my knowledge is limited to basic modelling.
I'm trying to get the effect of string being tied around a soft object. Like this string around my finger. Not sure ...
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What is physics field absorption with a collision object for particles?
I have read this information
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.90/physics/collision.html#bpy-types-collisionsettings
Does anyone have a better explanation in a few paragraphs?
The question arises ...
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Best way to animate a moving canon(shot)?
Im animating a shipbattle and want to animate the canonshots inbetween.
The project is unfortunatly above 150mb at this point.
I have a canon model, seperated into a stand, the canonbarrel and a ...
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Affect curves with wind force field?
I have grass that Ive made individually from tapered curves here, and I want apply a gentle breeze to them. I dont see a way to apply force fields to curves though - you can make the curve itself emit ...
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Aligning Particles in a direction
I want to arrange ellipsoid-shaped particles shown in the picture filled inside a sphere.
In the same way aligned from one pole to other (bipolar)
How can we do this using particle system ? How to ...
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How to get fluid to behave like droplets on a hydrophobic surface
I am trying to create an animation of the scene shown in the picture below. I want all the little fluid droplets to be attracted to the big one in the middle and be absorbed by it. I have tried using ...
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How do I make rigid bodies use a curve guide force?
It seems some force types do not effect rigid bodies, does anyone know which forces can actually be used on rigid bodies? In this case I'm trying to get 'debris' to get 'sucked up' by, and carried ...
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Rotation of objects using wind force
I'm using the wind force to blow some floating objects in the wind. I have the Affect -> Rotation checked, but the objects don't rotate. What am I missing?
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Floating rigid bodies not affected by wind (2.92)
I'm trying to make some floating rigid objects blow away in the wind. I have applied a rigid body to all of the objects separately, and have a wind force field pointed at them. When I hit play, the ...
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Particles: control conservation of momentum / inertia?
In Maya there's an attribute to reduce the inertia of particles, it's called Conserve. If Conserve is 1, the particles obey Newtonian mechanics. If Conserve is zero, none of the momentum from the ...
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Is it possible to change the axes/part that the vortex forcefield is attracting?
INITIAL SITUATION:
So I have a flock of "Birds" that are generated through a Boid Particle System,
at one point in my animation a vertex force field gets activated and the Particles get ...
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Could I make keep the animation position as the new position for an object?
I'm trying to simulate a cloth patch which is a rectangle to "stick" to something irregular like a forehead, so I thought of animating it by using a force field animation and it pushes it ...
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How to move alot of objects by "Force Field" each one in a different speed
I have created a plane and above it i have applied "hair" using as particles any number-shaped objects.
After i have converted each one particles in one object making them "Rigid Body&...
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How to limit the force field only on a specified area?
I want to apply a force only on particles in a specified area, so they go upwards in their path (see pictures). I tried to use a wind force field, but that seems to affect all particles no matter ...
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Smoke+Fire sim for thruster using wind
I'm having a problem with the smoke and fire sim, after a few seconds the thrust stream "explodes" and then only sparks appear.
I used a plane as inflow and a cube as domain, all with ...
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how to tweak the wind affecting the cloth simulation (flag)?
I have a wind blowing onto my flag, looks fine at the beginning but quickly becomes very static so the cloth barely moves. How can I tweak it? I`d like to apply file but cant find where to upload.
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Choose what rigid-body is affected by a force field in Blender 2.9
I have a conundrum,
I have a bunch of rigid-bodies that I would like to travel to different locations.
On their voyage to their location I’d like them to be able to interact and collide with any other ...
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How to create Wind effect on circle logo
I am trying to animate a logo in the shape of a circle. The idea was to have it floating in the air and have some wind going through it.
What I have done so far:
I have used cloth simulation and the ...
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When using turbulance to create a grass animation, the effect of the turbulance eventually fades out
I used a turbulence force field to create a grass animation for 300 frames. At the start the turbulence is affecting the grass very much but about at 100 frames it starts to slow down and eventually ...
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How to make objects attract/stick to a single object
I'm kinda new to blender been using it for a little while now,but was wondering how I could make objects attract/stick to an object (one single object) i have that will be the center of a giant ball ...
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Can you split a group of particules between different forcefields?
I have a cube that emits particles surrounded by 4 cubes, each have a negative force fields (i.e. attractive). I want my population of particules to be equaly split between theses force fields to ...
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Blender snap forcefield to vertex?
Is it possible to snap a forcefield to a given vertex ? I want to assign different forcefields to different vertices of a cube so that if the cube moves, the forcefields move with it, but I don't know ...
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Simulating N-bodies gravitational interaction
I wanted to simulate attraction of massive bodies in space and added Force field of type "force"
Unfortunately, all these bodies stay still on animation.
(I turned gravitation off so that ...
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how to have one force field influence on 2 collection?
I am trying to make a tornado. I want to make a force field influences two different collections of particles.I have separated different force fields by collections but now I want a specific force,to ...
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Fluid Simulation with Forces Blender 2.9. How do I get useful results?
This is about the built in Fluid Simulation with Blender 2.9
Yes I do see the effect of the gravity force and [force[shape curve]].
Will other forces work with Blender? Such as Harmonic?
When I try ...
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How do I rotate an object in an anti gravity simulation?
I am creating a shot where:
gravity is turned off
multiple objects are "floating" in space
a few objects collide with eachother
each object has it's own forcefield in order to propel it ...
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How catch particles with ranged curve guide
I try to simulate aspiration of particles with curve guide force field.
I don't know if the attraction force minimum distance works because for a simple exemple like below,
i can't have attraction ...
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tensor flow / deformable grid
I am trying to make a grid that i can deform, by adding points that acts like a magnetic field.
Is it possible to create a grid that i can manually/auto deform like this?
I need it to be one ...
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Pack instances of object on surface of mesh
I'm trying to achieve something like this (https://www.instagram.com/p/B9E5hH-oKi8/) with blender.
Is there any way I can achieve something similar? Maybe by using a force field and a particle system?
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How to bake a particle animation over 250 frames
I have been following this guide for making a particle animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bv973aqx-w
At the end, he says you just increase the end frame in the bar at the bottom up to 500 and ...
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Morphing/contracting under physical force
I'm a biologist and I work on cell deformations under stress. I am new to Blender.
As a part of my project, I want to animate/simulate cells deforming under contraction force.
I want to morph/contract ...
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Apply one acceleration to all objects
Can I make a force field that affects every object according to their mass, so that all objects accelerate at say 1 m/s^2, is that possible in blender? If not possible via UI is it possible via ...
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Make force field only affect objects while they are within a specific area
I'm trying to emulate an object floating to the surface of a liquid within a soft body simulation using a wind force field, but I have discovered to my dismay that wind force fields don't care about ...
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