Questions tagged [particles]
Questions pertaining to a group of particles which can be used to simulate a system of chaotic objects(known as particle systems). Particle systems in Blender are robust and full of settings.
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Making weather effects in the BGE
This type of snowfall looks nice:
If that example was made in Blender Internal or Cycles, I'd say particles were used - but particles clearly don't work in the BGE. How can a weather effect such as ...
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Random sized cylinders with no intersection/gaps
I'm trying to find a way to achieve an extruded version of what the image below shows without having to manually scale every cylinder.
I tried particle systems (hair, both vertex and face modes), but ...
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How can I simulate powder with a particle system?
I want to simulate powder, are particles the best job for this and if so what settings could I use to achieve this in Blender?
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Even hair particle distribution
I'm trying to get my hair particles to distribute evenly across a surface of a object.
The problem is that there's only three ways to distribute particles: Verts, Faces, and Volume. My mesh surface ...
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Abstract Wave with Particle System
I want to create a wave made out of particles/dots. The wave should look like this:
I tried to achieve this effect by adding an ocean modifier to a plane. Then I added a particle system to the plane ...
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How to correct collision between particles
In the use particle system how to avoid two particles intersect each other as in the following figure:
Our settings for ...
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Make particles follow true (material) displacement
I'm experimenting with some procedural surfaces and I have a particle system on it. The problem is that, even though I'm using material displacement, the particles lie flat on the mesh.
Is there a ...
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How to affect particle size over time?
I'd like to spawn particles that change size over time. It would be nice if I could have complete control over how big they are at each percentage of their lifetime, but that is not a necessary ...
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Hair Shape in Eevee
I'm trying to make a Christmas Tree in Blender 2.8 using the new Eevee Render Engine, I used a Particle System to make the little green pines.
In the Cycles Render Engine I could change the ...
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Halo particles don't render in Cycles
I have a problem with particles. I can see them in the viewport, but no matter what I do I can't see them in my render. Could anyone of you please help me? I really want to create a snowy scene.
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Is there a way to procedurally scatter objects on the ground of my scene? [duplicate]
I would like to have plants, rocks, sticks and other debris scattered randomly on the ground in my scene, but I don't want to have to place it all there by hand. Is there an easy way to do this in ...
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How to make hair material different from the plane itself?
In Cycles Render, I added hair to a plane (as I was making a grass field) and I don't seem to know how to make the actual flat plane's material different from the hairs themselves, because I'd like to ...
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Horizontal particle gravity
I am trying to animate a collision between an asteroid and a planet. I have a particle emitter at the point where the asteroid hits the planet which emits particles, however they unrealistically fall ...
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Prevent particles at the same place?
I try a simple particle system, with this group on the layer 2 :
The result, placing it at Vertices places on a grid, using this group, is like :
The problem is that sometimes 2 or 3 objects are at ...
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How to animate weight-painting?
I want that particles would appear from one corner, and like a wave would go through all the plane using vertex density. Basically just to animate the weight-painting. Is it possible do it, or maybe ...
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How to convert particles to mesh [duplicate]
I need to convert a Particle System to a mesh object, so I can export it to Unity 3D. How could I do this?
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How to extract side-view outline (e.g. top view) of a 3D object to 2D surface?
I want to make some 2D version of 3D particles. I used to shrinkWrap the 3D mesh to a plan, and draw NURBS curve manually along the boundary. However it is too time-consuming!
Is there any easy way ...
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Hair won't render in cycles?
I just followed Andrew Price's video tutorial on how to render hair in cycles, and I have followed every single direction, but no hair gets rendered. Is something not enabled or activated?
It is ...
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Animation Nodes: How to create faces from a Particle System?
I just started using animation nodes and don't understand a lot quiet yet.
What do I want to achieve?
I've set up a particle system with an icosphere as emitter and used animation nodes to create ...
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Particle trails in Cycles?
Is there a way to render trails behind particles in cycles?
I tried using hair particles with Use force field weights for growing enabled and a turbulence force-field, however the trails become ...
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Rotate (group) objects outwards on spherical particle system?
I'm trying to create a mini-world with (among other things) trees on it. I have created an icosphere, modeled several trees and put them in a group.
Next I added a particle system to the sphere, and ...
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How ought I lock particles' rotation so that they always face their velocity vector?
I have a particle system that manages a bunch of very small spaceships coming from a mothership, and I'm wondering if there's an efficient way to make each of those particles face its own velocity ...
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How can Particle Objects copy emitter's color texture?
I'd like to make a scientifically accurate animated snake using particle objects (and no, sculpting or bump mapping won't be realistic enough because real scales don't actually shrink and stretch when ...
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Powder simulation
I am trying to do a simulation for a powder spread out of capsules. I did a particle system alone and a smoke alone.
But I had two problems now. I need to make the smoke react with the particles to be ...
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How can I make particles not rotate after lay on the surface?
I want to make the falling autumn leaves.
I did a system of particles that rotate in flight.
How can I make them not rotate after lay on the surface?
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Particles as smoke
I'm trying to perform a simulation of an object moving through a cloud of smoke. Ideally I'd achieve an effect like the ones in this video.
The problem is that when you set particles to have smoke->...
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How to add trailing light effect to finger tips?
(as advised I deleted my previous question)
I would like to add a light streak effect to the finger tips of this animated dancer.
I am using a particle emitter that is assigned to a vertex group (...
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How to duplicate an object in 2.8 via the Python API
I know how to successfully duplicate an object by using
bpy.ops.object.add_named(name = 'TemplateObjectName')
If the template object named 'TemplateObjectName' ...
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Paint particles from texture
I have black-white image which I use to generate particles and now I want to make particle colors similar to the original image (3). So in the end where should be some particles in color blue, some in ...
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Sun Glow Particles
How do I achieve this cool sun particle glow effect?
These little circles below:
I need the answer in blender cycles.
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How to make particles fall like snow
I'm trying to make a blender animation for Christmas, so I am kind of pressed for time. It is snowing in the scene, so I have watched tutorials on the particles.
I tried it, but it looked too much ...
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Particle effect showing only on one side of mirrored object
I'm trying to create a fur particle effect on sonic the hedgehog, and I'm using weight paints to keep it in the areas I want.
Problem: I can only get the hair effect to show up on certain random ...
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Make Particles Point Towards the Camera?
How can I make all the particles in a particle system face the camera?
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"Time remap" or slow speed of cloth particles driven by a force
I have a scene with a particle system, which emits a few planes, to which is assign a cloth simulation. A wind point force emitter drives the particles in a swirl. Cool.
The overall action is ...
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How do i create low lying smoke (similar to Zootopia), in blender
Hello Blender community,
I am a huge fan of the Disney movie Zootopia, the amount of physics and detail really drew me into 3D animation and design. Although I always had an interest in 3D ...
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How can I scale particle size over lifetime within a keyed physics system
I am trying to make an alka-zeltzer in a glass, creating bubbles that form a logo on the water surface. To do this I am using keyed particles and everything works fine.
However, I would like to have ...
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Can't get particles via molecular addon (v1.0.2) to behave naturally (e.g. dirt or sand)
I can't seem to make the molecular particles immediately settle when they fall through a solidified cylinder to the bottom and remain still. Instead, they jitter, shake, bounce off each other, then ...
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Can I use something similar to the ParticleInfo Node but for meta objects?
In cycles you can control the color of a Particle-(dupli)Object with the ParticleInfo Node. You can, for example, divide Particle Age by Lifetime and use the result as factor for a mix shader.
I ...
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How to create a growing bacterial colony?
So, I've been trying to create a short 3D animation of a bacteria dividing|splitting itself multiple times like this
I adjusted some shape keys for it, but I think it would be too overwhelming to ...
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How to demonstrate Archimedes Law in Blender?
I would love to demonstrate Archimedes Law in Blender. I understood that it is not possible to have an object float in a fluid because the Blender fluid does not exert a force on an object.
However, ...
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How to create realistic powder?
I want to model powder in a dish like in this picture.
I have tried to create the powder using the particle system by following some suggestions in an earlier answer, but so far I had no success.
I ...
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Parenting a mesh to a particle [duplicate]
I have made a character with particle hair. The hair is dynamic and it works fine. I want to attach beads to a strand, so that it moves along with the strand of hair. However, I can not find the right ...
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How to hide the object emitting particles?
I have a surface with particles. But I don't want to see the original object in the render. How to fix it?
Transparency, other collection / scene doesn't work.
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Emit Hair Particle from Center of Face
How can I emit objects from the center of a face, as shown?
When I try to emit from faces, they are randomly distributed. None of the settings seem to allow for a placement of one object per face, ...
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How to use multiple particle types in a particle system?
I created a particle system, duplicating a red sphere. However I want to also have yellow and orange spheres (already have them in another layer) in the same particle system. So I want to know how to ...
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How can particles be emitted from particles?
In a scene with two particle system configured as boids and boids brain set to fight, one swarm attacks the other. I would like to emit child particles as lines (laser or something) to visualize some ...
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Is it possible to effect the spawning direction of a particle with a normal map?
I've been unsuccessful so far in finding information on, or working out how to control the angle that a particle is emitted from using a normal map.
What I'm trying to do is create a texture or UV ...
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How to use a texture to affect particle density
I'm trying to get some grass going in super straight lines on a plane. I'd like to use a simple image texture (striped lines) to drive the... weight? Texture density? I'm not even sure of the right ...
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how to animate a bee swarm
i wish to simulate a swarm of bees where the bees are all gathered on their hive at first, then a rock is thrown at their hive, making the whole swarm agitated and chaotic all of a sudden. The rock is ...
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I am not at all able to paint weight paint on the plane
I am new to Blender and I am using Blender 3.0.0
I am trying to weight paint this plane but I am unable to do it to at least a single vertex. I subdivided the plane many times but I am unable to paint....
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