Blender Softbody Tutorial

[LolMagic321]

How do I change the weight in blender 2.61?

[Gmaster350]

low quality much?

[horbergaren]

when i try to make a cube a soft body, it does not drop down, i hangs around in the sky dangling, any help?

[1WisdomNPower]

I can't find COLLISION DETECTION anywhere. I'm using Blender 2.49b. Trying hard on my own to figure out how to keep my cloth from falling through the cube to actually drape over the cube. Please help. Great tutorial! May we have a CLOSER view of your screen to see what buttons you're clicking.

[sodium44]

what button do i press to subdivide a object?

[SKStudioVideo]

that is all I was looking for, thank You...;-))

[XxaircaterpillarxX]

Thankyou for the video! I have one question though. When I make my soft body it wobbles up and down with minimal stretch. Could you help me?

[seantking]

whenever i press alt a it just wobbles up and down

[onlinhe]

Its SoftGo?

[Zawadzke]

Very good video. If you hadn't told me, I would have guessed you were american. Keep up the good work.

[DragonK10456]

how do u subdivide?

[Marcus91Swe]

press W

[onlyoneicouldget]

You have to be in edit mode (tab)

[accuratesheep]

press tab to switch to edit mode and press "w", choose subdivide from menu as often as you want

[MindaugasHW]

thanks

[DDrack1]

you have to press the button where is Object mode written then there is weight paint^^

[Dreamcube017]

I'm using bolender 2.48 and I don't see a weight thing anywhere.

[squidfish2]

this tutorial is getting quite old now and since it was made, various options have moved around. softbodies are still in there, but the process has changed slightly. if i get time, i'll make an updated version of this.

[ymonkey333]

everybody to add a curve just hit ctrl+left mouse boutton

[bongfodder]

thank you

[pcslider]

sweet tut! thanks!

[tomrebel2]

u dont have to make a vertex group, in the softbody panel, uncheck use goal

[PinetreeJumper]

mine just floats there

[PinetreeJumper]

now it wont let me set my wind curve wat button did u hit

[CavallinoSilver]

great video squid thanks

[00ganon162]

you didn't add a plane to it ...

[peeeanuts]

hey i have a question:

what do i press to make it work? like its 'p' for games, what do i press to play softbody simulations? thanks!

[SkrullAdams]

Alt-A for the animation of the gravity effect. I had to listen to this like 20 times... I kept pushing Alt-8

[peeeanuts]

awesome thanks!

[mawc14]

awesome vid. very helpful

[destroyer8000]

I am having so many problems with this it's not even funny. When I try ti subdivide it the second time, it won't let me. When I try to select 1 object, it selects them both! Do you have any clue what I'm doing wrong.

[squidfish2]

sounds like there could be some mix-up about when you should be in edit mode, and when you should be in object mode.

[tomrebel2]

only add the plane when the cube is in object mode

[fusslteppich]

when i press f7 and go to the particles it says that only mesh objects can generate particles...what am i doing wrong?

[squidfish2]

ur not creating nurbs are you?

[rofthorax]

Need to make the polygons double sided, that's why in simulation mode (game blender mode) the back of the plane disappears..

[mobster1101]

How do you add an antiobject? Please I really need to know!! D=

[hockeybuggy]

empty object

space

add

empty

[nopow]

he's saying "empty object". Press space bar, then "empty"

[swindler010]

where i can find more blender video

tutorials??

[globuz93]

From youtube?

[swindler010]

i prefer other websites that explain just blender

[Fuice1]

try google...

[sirfreakman]

they are a lot try "super3boy blender" on youtube.

[rofthorax]

I've got a few on my site.. Do a search on google for "bl3nder". I've been using it since Fall of 1998

[assassin3004]

How do you subdivide??

[PDrifte]

select the vertices to subdivide then hit the W key, and choose subdivide in the popup...

[MASTERCON12]

Great Job, I Used Your Video To Help Me With My Science Project. THANKS

[xcon99]

dude u are fucking awesome

[mobocr]

??? Is there a way to "kill" whatever lies under the cloth while keeping the shape of the clothified mesh (I mean hardening the cloth after baking) ???

[nikkonaa]

Make the object transparent at the right keyframe

[mobocr]

PLEASE Help: Im currently trying to clothify (drape) a mesh over a quite complex text extrusion (converted to a mesh). Pressing Alt-A delivers a quite beautiful "drappé", but the text extrusion still passes through it. I know that subdivising murder my computer and tried adding a subscurf mod. but it doesn't seem to do it (error messages)... Do the subscurf decrease rendering time? How does it works????

[mobocr]

enormously helpful tutorial! thanks a lot!

[Ruzzy]

Great tutorial :) I've been looking everywhere for this stuff. Thanks.

[smellyicecreem]

wow thanks for that it helped heaps

[DemonicAyngel]

this tutorial is very nice!

I'm having trouble towards the very beginning though and I"m not sure what I'm doing wrong - I have no problem making the vertex group and turning the weight to 0 (everything is blue) but then when I go into Weight Paint mode, my cursor turns into a paintbrush and I can't seem to select any verts...(the ones we need to make have a weight of 1). Any idea what's wrong?

[GZpRoDuCtion]

What version of blender is this?

[liadon666]

hey dude!!just downloaded blender and I found yours an awesome tutorial..anyways..I was wondering this:is it possible to use soft bodies to make blender games?? (I.E.) a soft body bouncing wall-breaker ball character ^^ ??

thanx in advance :D

PS(sorry for any error..I'm italian..and my english sux :D LOL )

[squidfish2]

it is possible. but you wouldnt want to go overboard, remember that unless you bake the softbody its done at runtime in a game which requires a pretty beefy processor to pull off.

[liadon666]

yeah..I'd tried many engines in the past..and all my soft body simulations(made using rigidbodies connected together by joints)where all sllllooooww...anyways...I got in mind to use 4 deformable meshes with a very low poly count..I wanna make a GOOD car sim..(and the only way to do it is simulating the wheel rubber)..anyways..any guess ?

[hugeassin]

While you were in the IPO View, how did you create Thoughs points inside the IPO view? What hot keys did you press?

[liadon666]

I had the same problem..anywawys..just have a look to the blender help..I found them there ;-) btw..F7 to switch object parameters like soft body,particles,,and so on..and the other one used is W in EDITOR MODE to subdivide the mesh..He used the middle mouse button to navigate(I guess) in the view..I'd downloaded blender 2 hours ago and I managed to make this in 20 mins :-P (I'm italian..it was hard to understand the whole thing..also cause this guy seems to eating something while talkin :-P)

[Graylord88]

How do you make the curves?

[YouToad]

you sound german

[bossisdead]

hey do you know how to undi a subdivide? Say i subdivided, then did a load of other things,using the CTRL+Z hotkey isnt good because it will undo all my otherwork!is there a way to select an item,say the cloth in your video,and undo the subdivide?thanks!

[squidfish2]

the undo function is only useful in this way for as long as you stay in edit mode. the second you exit and go back to mesh select mode the undo wont undo what you did in edit mode. you need to be sure you're happy before you start doing other things, you cant always try and rely on undo.

[bossisdead]

Oh I see ok cool! Oh and while I'm here!I've cpoied this tutorial and found it VERY helpful! The only thing I'm having trouble with is that when my curtain drops the edges of the box are coming through! Is there any way to fix this? Will I just keep subdividing it??Thank you!! ^^

[squidfish2]

its mentioned in the video. there's not a lot you can do about it (at least not that i know of). you can keep subdividing until the result is satisfactory, but this will murder your computer and the rendering time.

[guppypartz]

If you raise the OUTER FACE THICKNESS (in Deflection) on the cube to, say, .4, that'll remove the show thru

[ItsConcept3D]

Thankyou

[Finnamorej]

Soft.... softgoal? softgood? softgole. sorry I am not sure what to put in the very beggining. :(

[guppypartz]

You can use any name if you got a recent version of Blender. Just make sure next to the USEGOAL button you select that name you used.

He probably means softgoal though.

[Finnamorej]

ok cool thanks. :)

[ncddavis3]

NOT WORKING!!!

[Finnamorej]

After you press "F7" then you said to go to soft body and I don't see any on my screen. Also i noticed you and I have the same blender up grade so it can't be that... I typed in "Softgoal" when you said to, but it did not work. :(

any ideas?

[xbowhunter]

thanks for the tips

[Tacticalisthebest]

im doing evrything and its just staying. part of its moving, the rest is not

[TheGeiler]

How do i set the Plane om play?!

[XEXY2007]

short, concise, usefull, thanks, keep it up

[arturoaguerregmail]

I dont understand, how i fix the bug that happen when the softbody hit the cube, i can see some edge from the cube.

[BLUYES422]

it just floats

[squidfish2]

check your gravity settings

[Finnamorej]

when I press f7 I don't see any soft bodys button to press. I looked at urs and mine and they look like diff settings. I do have the upgrade 2.45 for blender. And I downloaded Python 2.5 but don't know how to swich to using python 2.5 :( do u know how?

[shaman2007]

where can i download this?

[squidfish2]

blender[dot]org

[softwhere07]

thank you. This was very useful

[gotrunksss3]

Sorry but I went to sleep

[demon1255]

dude.....i did absolutely everything u said and my plane just goes flying off into oblivion....what the crap.......plz help me someone!!!!!

[squidfish2]

umm.....it sounds to me like you've missed something. maybe check that you did the weight painting correct that things are in the right vertex group. also check gravity and wind strength and well pretty much everything. maybe also try starting from scratch to see if that helps.

[demon1255]

ok.....thanks it worked i had the wind speed outrageously fast so....yeah...

[BLUYES422]

ok thanks

[dakine7nine]

As for the hovering plane make sure you hit the dropdown menu next to the "use goal" button and select your vertex group

[dakine7nine]

Ok so can't figure out whats wrong with mine. Before I add the wind modifier my plane falls down and acts as it should, however after it flies away withe the wind in a matter of four or five frames. Why doesn't it stay put?

[BRintheface]

What version of blender are you using, and do you think you could do the tutorial with the updated version?

[ivanvalerian]

Man, I don't know why my softbody keeps in a "floating motion" instead falling down. I'm doing everything right... i think. lol

[JoaoVendetta]

Great! I usually just use blender for backgrounds, to avoid rigging, with this I'm getting ideas for banners, and flags. Cool!

Thx dude!

[jendomika2]

Great tut but how do I "subdevide" ? please answer. THANKS!

[squidfish2]

to subdivide - first highlight the part of your mesh you want to subdivide (for example, a single face), then hit wkey and choose subdivide. there are other subdivide options here but normally you just use the basic one.

[AnimationByTim]

This is based on an older version of Blender, 2.3 series I think, so the buttons are located in different windows on the 2.4 aqnd current plus there are more options in the current version . Also, Make sure that you use the same layer for all of your objects and empties.

[Moviefreak247]

when i do it, all I get is the plane just wobbling, is there something wrong with my blender? Or have I put in a setting wrong, because it is really frustrating

[YOUNGSAMMIE]

are you a pro at this? i started about a week ago (2/26/07) and i havent been able to do any of this. ill get more familur with it tho. nice vid!! ^-^

[squidfish2]

you all do realise that i said in the description that i didnt make this. i dont know the person who made this and i dont know their level of skill at blender. i myself am not a pro at blender, but i've been using it for over a year and know how to use most of its features such as softbodies...etc

[metronomosrl]

you dont have to apologize for your accent which is by the way correctly.not everyone can talk in rp.

Squidfish2 saludos de Uruguay!!

[sweeetra3]

i wonder if you could give a tutorial to someone that doesnt know anything about this progam, i mean nothing!

i wana learn to do something.. anything! something very very easy for beginers, please dont make fun of me! ^_^ i want to learn about this. hope you write me back!

[mwmoviemaker]

Nice tutorial, good idea on adding the wind effect!!!!

5 stars!!

[hitchcockwannabe]

hi that was great but i was wondering is that a disk or how do you get it so if you could please tell me that would be great

[squidfish2]

is what a disk? get what?

[SpecialOperations]

It was a good push on my skills...nice job

[hiphopcrack]

Excellent tutorial

[ForceUser]

Wow that was nice

[bigtabs]

Excellent tute, thanks. Is there a higher res one hosted somewhere?

[squidfish2]

i have it in a higher res on my pc...and i downloaded that from somewhere....sorry, i cant remember where. if i ever find it i'll let you know, until then you could always try googling it.

[killerinparadise]

good work

[EggYolk]

that was brillant, thanks for the help, you did a good job with the english.

[Anayo]

Great tutorial.