Blender Tutorial Intro to Particle Physics

[TheJustin7861]

You are Jim Halpert.

[NSchnatter190]

Can you set a trigger for this to happen. For ex. If the effect is exported to an aircraft simulator, can this be triggered in by G-loading, and if so how?

[ratae7]

gr8 tutorial well done

[slumpgamer]

thanks for the tutorials. they really help!

[AndTuts]

Thanks, gonna make "Dancing with the stars"

[ZotikosDesign]

Thank you thank you thank you! >:D<



[StatikStudios96]

"we always need an object to emit particles" thats what she said, lol, i dont know why that was funny, seriously though, really helpful tutorial, thanks alot. :)

[Drulian]

Hey Josh, I just wanted to say how much I value your class support tutes on Blender. AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT. I've learned 80% of what I use Blender for from you :) The other 20% was on plain, gruelling experimentation, trial and a lot of error. Thank you for allowing the rest of us plebs to benefit from your methodical, clear, accessible instruction!

[angelwingprophecy]

need help.. i use a different version... but the buttons are all pretty the same but, when i render the particle, it looks like smoke

[H4xxmax]

My cube wont interact i followed every steP :S

[ger90245]

Congratulations!

[xLineagePainx]

check my acc ive got blender into text comment n sub

[JAGeLINUS]

How do you render this?

[thundermaster77]

I was following this tutorial and i got to the part where we select random and choose volume instead of faces. When I pressed alt A, no particles were emitted. What is Wrong?

[Bullseye3D]

@thundermaster77 are you at frame 1

[TheWaynelds]

@thundermaster77 make sure youre either at frame 1 and not in edit mode

[cookingglen]

Great vid you told me exactly what I needed to know! I've been searching for just this knowledge all day!

[jollibeebonita]

Okay...I did collision on the cube, but the particles still go through it. help anyone?

[SloMoPiano]

@jollibeebonita

Unfortunately I suffer the same problem using 2.49, does anyone know what's wrong? Otherwise really great tutorial and explanation, Josh. Greetings from Germany.

[RickieGformerMHupldr]

@SloMoPiano i have 2.49b and 2.55 beta they work fine all i can say is make sure you followed the directions to the letter or modified them here and there i made the y-3 instead of 5 because the particles don't catch right away other wise for me

[Zjust2978]

I've got the 2.50, and I can't find the particle section

[BJUAdams]

Very good tutorial rly!Thx

[IBratAnarchist]

nice tutorual, good explanation of what you're doing and good to keep up with (left screen youtube, middle screen blender). Thanks a lot dude!

[manabrau]

cheers!! great stuff

[Logichy]

Thx for an amazing tutorial.

I has only one question.... -How do i make the particles glow?

I have seen alots of videos of particles made with blender, and they glow or has other visualizations.

Please help

[augis1996]

I use the newset version and the particles bounce of the cube

[supergenius1994]

whenever I preview an object with a particle system, I can only see the particles, why?

[MikeHornett]

I do this and it just appears to be light particles not solid sand particles.

[dumbeetle46]

i use 2.49 and i cant get the cube to work any help

[TheNewVideos]

same here. the settings do not work there... the particles go still through the cube

[TheNewVideos]

aa, if you do not choose volume but use faces then it works

[usmanater]

Thanks for the tutorial dude. Hey I was wondering whether it would be possible to have wind effect Hair particles in blender?

[hahli1994]

I'm also having troubles with the animation. I did exactly every single step you said (tho mine is a different version so it's hard figuring it out) and there was no animation. Do you know what i could possibly be doing wrong? I have version 2.45 I think.

[hahli1994]

Ummm...... How do you reselect the cube in Blender after you've put the Icosphere in? I tried all mouse buttons, B, and other stuff but I cant seem to reselect it. Too bad no one bothers to talk about that now do they?!?

[supergenius1994]

right click it

[unexpectedvids]

im on 2.8 and the particles are stuck IN THE SPHERE

[guruproblem]

thx but it doesnt work very well in blender 2.48

[doublesob]

Thanks for another good tutorial. :)

[kohknight]

in every video of your's i hear crickets in the background

[johnojonniejohn]

Good job. You're well spoken, organized, and informative. Many youtube tutorials are not. Looking forward to checking out more of your videos.

[rzipper1]

Thanks. This is very cool. I am just getting into Blender. I am amazed !!!

[MovieMakersCanada]

I am having trouble with the collision. I can't get the particles to interact with the cube. I duplicated everything I see in your tut. I am using 2.47

[MovieMakersCanada]

Ok weird. My collision is not starting until frame 100ish Why would that be? It appears to be default., but I see not settings for that kind of thing...

[zlwilly]

Thats the same thing that is happening to me. Not sure why. What version of Blender are you using? I'm on 2.48

[MovieMakersCanada]

2.47 I think, I am also on a mac, but I don't see that making much difference.

[zlwilly]

I'm on a mac too. Hmm...

[biccyboy]

try setting the start of the sand at -100 frames?

[zulonz]

Someone help pleasE!!!! I move the 3D cursor above the cube and I cant get my Pointer BACK!!!! and also i followed EVERYTHING, when i hit alt A nothing happens! Im like in tears im so frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jbeckneisdnet]

Which version of the blender are you using?

I'm not sure how to help exactly based on what you have there. Try this for the cursor: Highlight an object and use shift-s --> cursor to selection.

[zulonz]

Im using Blender 2.45 and that didnt work!!

[zulonz]

oh wait, I just downloaded 2.46 and now I can get my selector back.

[jbeckneisdnet]

I am using 2.46 in this tutorial. There are some differences. Glad it's working!

[DjBend1]

@zulonz it's often useful to press '5' to change from ortho to perspective mode... i got lost this way a few times.

[Ryonni]

Great tutoring! Could you think of making a tutorial of how to form/reform things from particles? For example a cube would fall on earth and then the pieces would jump up forming the cube again? I'd appriciate it alot.

[Dudes124]

Yes! I've been trying to figure this out forever! Thank you SO much!

[bumbumzao132]

Man, Josh thanks sooo much.

[MDAaron1971]

Nice. I've done things like that with liquids, but not particles. I may do a video response to this later. :o)