Questions tagged [smoke-simulation]
Questions pertaining to Blender's built-in smoke simulator.
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Smoke simulation renders with gaps on fast moving object
I understand that this problem occurs because the "flow" object moves very fast (in 60 frames 72 meters) and a little sideways. But how to fix it? I have tried all possible settings (...
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Smoke Domain duplication over plane
I am new to Blender but I've learned a lot since I started. I am used to CAD design so I understand how a blender works as long as it's explained to me. I am having a problem where I want to make a ...
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How do I trigger a checkbox with Armature? Is there a way?
I have a cube, I want this cube to generate smoke at a certain key frame, but I want an armature to trigger it. The problem is blender keeps crashing when I render so there is something I'm doing ...
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Why is the background so full of noise?
I rendered this animation of a coffee mug with a smoke simulation to create the hot steam but the background is almost distorting like with heat distortion. I do use depth of field and the focus ...
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Performance issues in Ubuntu 22.04
I'm using Blender 3.3.1 (I know, old by now) and have been using it in Ubuntu 18.04 for years. I am pretty reluctant in doing upgrades because I'm afraid of how different things are gonna get and how ...
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Combining different types of Animations
I am new to blender and I am currently working on a project where I animated the firing of laser using geometry nodes. After the laser strikes the particular target I want to have smoke released in a ...
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The smoke simulation doesn't look good in the rendered state. How can I change the render settings. so that the result looks better
In this project, I want to use smoke in the scene. Here are my render settings
Rendersettings
I don't know how to adjust the settings so that the end result looks better. Here's the rendered image
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How can I change the render settings so that the wierd particles on my render look better?
Here you can see my render in Cycles
I want to render this image, but the Cycles engine can't handle the smoke simulation. I would like the render to be way more precise and realistic.
I don't know ...
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Smoke Domains Piled Up
For some reason after baking all of my smoke domains pile up on one of the domains. When I try to move the domain, it displays the domain in the correct spot.
Should I have created one huge domain to ...
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how do you freeze/stop/apply a fire/smoke/fluid simulation?
does anyone know? i found a video where they did it but it doesn't work anymore in blender 3.6.
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Blender fire simulation is jumping around randomly
Right now I'm trying to create a simple flame to create a flipbook texture to use in Unity. The only problem is that when I bake my simulation it seems to bounce all over the place. I'm not sure why ...
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Creating a controller that can control the intensity of emission of smoke
I have been trying to create a rig that can control the intensity of emission of condensation (similar to smoke) on wings like the one in the video (at 1:33)
https://youtu.be/wjTV2AdoLNs?si=...
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How do I render fire + smoke?
I am trying to render a simple rocket ship animation. I have used the advice from this question, but it only displays the fire & smoke in the solid mode of viewport shading. In material preview ...
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Can I disable my fire simulation from risign upwards
So basically, I am making a scene in space where a spaceship is supposed to catch flames before exploding. However the flame is rising which is unlrealistic for a 0G enviorment.
From what I've read by ...
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Optimize Sim Cache
I have a big blend file that contains simulations and my pc can't handle rendering it and I can't upload it to a render farm cuz when I add external cache files it gets too big. Whenever Itry ...
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multiple smoke simulations - independent of each other
it's more like a general question:
I made a smoke simulation, one domain + one emitter -> baked that, worked fine.
Then i added another domain + emitter, where the domain is that big, that the ...
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how to bake rigid body?
so I have a rigid body simulation but the problem is I don't know exactly how to bake them , I have a plane with kind of explosion on (the plane is a loose part) on edit mode , I have two plane with ...
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Smoke simulation frozen
I am having a problem with my smoke simulation. I created an emitter and added the quick smoke preset.
But when I press play the simulation only shows the first frame.
When I do the same in a blank ...
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Collision do not work with smoke
I have trouble with the collision when I’m doing a smoke simulation. It works fine if I open up a new Blender file but it doesn't work in my file that I'm working on and I can’t understand why. I want ...
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I can't see smoke in cycles
i don't get it maybe i'm just stupid because in the tutorials it just works.
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Is Blender's OpenVDB cache export volume channel only?
I've been exploring using Blender VDB sims and not continuing with Embergen. Right now the biggest problem I'm having is that I can't apparently export flames from Blender to the OpenVDB cache. ...
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Smoke simulation not working at all
I followed a tutorial online about smoke simulations, and I am trying to get the smoke to flow down in the domain... Every time I bake, the smoke appears but only around the box and I can't figure out ...
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Embergen simulations are not lookin correctly in blender
so i just imported the some vdb files into blender that i made in embergen but the smoke+fire effect is not lookin as embergen here is my node setup
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Smoke cuts off when emitter flow is turned off
I have 16 smoke emitters in a domain and 8 of them are active for the first 50 frames, and they turn off at frame 51 and then the other 8 activate which were turned off before. Instead of the first 8 ...
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Smoke is Noisy with background image
I am trying to composite a smoke simulation to a background image, but some of the smoke is noisy in thinner areas. How do I fix the issue?
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my smoke simulation is barely visible in cycles
I am trying to do some smoke simulation so I tried it my self everything is good for now , but when I tried to bake it the smoke is barely visible As you can see in the pictures my settings , I want ...
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Bugged flame appears only middle of the domain
I don't know what happened but my flame suddenly broke. İt was very good and detailed. I don't know what ı changed. Flame appears only in middle of the domain with very bad resolution. Also when ı try ...
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smoke simulation from different frame rather than from 1 to 250
(I am a beginner in simulations) When i tried to simulate the smoke simulation from 100th start frame rather than 1, the smoke simulation behaves weird. When the animation reaches the 100th frame ...
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liquid simulation to follow Smoke simulation using Guides setting
I am trying this video But when I turn on Guides of Liquid Domain, flow disappears. How should I fix this??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldUwslQJ9NQ
Blend file is this.
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How does one create a particle cloud that collides like real smoke?
I'm familiar with all the volumetric methods of creating cloud looking things. I'm familiar with particles from emitters.
What I really need is a cloud of smoke that moves like real smoke when an ...
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Smoke Wisps in Blender 3.5
How can I make thin smoke wisps in Blender 3.5? Please share the procedure. Here is a reference.
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Smoke and fire quick effect offset from emission object
I am using blender 3.5, and I am a beginner.
When I apply a Quick Effect > Fire and Smoke on any mesh object, the effect shows offset from the emission object:
I tried to resize and move the outer ...
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Smoke Particles and Fluid
Taylor Swifts music video has these golden particle/fluid/smoke simulation. It is like a glowing pipe which has particles & smoke or fluid or both coming out randomly. I understand fluid ...
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Smoke sim appearing in solid view but not in Render - Cycles - Blender 3.5
I'm here again trying to make a quick smoke sim with a "steam" like appearance.
I followed a guide and this is the second time I use this sim. However, the first time I had to switch to ...
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Smoke Sim Still Blocky With High Resolution
I'm working on a scene with a smoke simulation.
As far as I can tell, I have everything setup correctly. That's obviously not correct as I'm here with an issue but I just cannot figure out what the ...
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How to limit fluid cache to used frames
I’m using a smoke simulation in my scene (animation), but I only need to use the simulation after it has reached a certain state. It takes around 2000 frames for the smoke to reach the point where it ...
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Moving smoke animation on a more complex mesh
I'm trying to animate a sword that bleeds black smoke that falls, and I've followed several tutorials and looked across many websites and I am unable to find a solution. I am a beginner at blender so ...
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How to use fluid particles to drive smoke simulation
The fluid simulation creates a particle system in the particle tab.
The smoke simulation can use particle systems to create smoke.
I cant seem to get the fluid simulation to drive my smoke simulation.
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Asking for making Hot Food Smoking, how to make it easier for normal computer?
I want to make the smoking for hot food, but my computer is not that good. This is my Physics Setting, what should I change for better time Baking?
Domain:
Resolution Division: ‘160'
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Fire + Smoke bake shows steps (still not solved)
When I bake my fire and smoke on a moving object (character), I get these unrealistic 'steps' in the bake (you can see the arm is rendered every frame apart, instead of a continuous natural fire). ...
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How do I get the smoke to not spread everywhere?
I want smoke to come out of my chimney and move upwards like a whisp, but it keeps generating in the surrounding area, and spreading outwards far too aggressively. How can I fix this?
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Odd smoke simulation collision behaviour at resolutions above 41
I have a smoke simulation setup which consists of two spherical inflow objects rotating around a common central point. Both objects stay inside of a torus shaped effector set to collision.
I have ...
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Quick smoke effect doesn't provide fire speed option (3.5)
I'm trying to make my smoke expand faster. I was watching this tutorial: https://youtu.be/ew1cr665u7M?t=60
Don't see any of the fire stuff in Blender 3.5
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how to remove squares in smoke?
How can I get rid of these squares? The particle velocity is high (like fireworks). Subdivision of smoke 300, upres of noise 5. Only space is higher.
I render specially on 8 samples (engine and ...
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Why does the wind force field not do anything?
I'm animating a rocket launch and after hours of tweaking I've come to the conclusion that the wind does nothing (it stays the same if I remove it) the exhaust comes out as a blob like this rather ...
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Simulation of dust from landing on the moon
I'm doing a moon landing animation and I need to simulate dust. The lunar module lands and as it approaches the surface, the rocket engine blows dust in all directions. The lunar module lands and the ...
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Smoke domain casts shadow despite the 'shadow' option is disabled in Ray Visibility
There is a point light just about the center of the smoke domain and even though the shadow ray visibility is disabled I keep getting flickering shadow glitches on the rendered animation. No ...
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how would I randomise object in geo nodes
Ive made a scene with multiple poles lit on fire but I can't figure out a way to use geo nodes to randomise the fire so it is different on each pole. I would think there is a way to use geo nodes but ...
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Force Field is effecting Smoke Simulation outside of specified Collection
I designated a collection for effectors for my smoke simulation, however, force fields that are outside of that collection are still effecting the simulation. How come?
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Smoke Simulation artifacts before start frame
I have an explosion in my scene, and I am getting strange artifacts from the smoke simulation even before the start frame.
The start frame is 216, or when the explosion actually occurs. There seems to ...
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