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Blender Tutorial blenderguru.com/introduction-to-smoke-simulation/

A beginners guide to the smoke simulator in Blender 2.5. Includes a 5 minute making-of!

During the 27-minute video you will learn:

* The Old System Vs New – What’s changed?
* How the Smoke Simulator works
* How to bake and render realistic smoke
* A behind the scenes look at creating a smoking city

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Nate Wiebe 2 years ago

Great Tutorial. Hope you do the camera mapping tutorial.
Potado Tomado 2 years ago

Awesome video!
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Thanks guys! :)
musk 1 year ago

Added to Blender3d[Tutorials] Channel.
Davis Sorenson 1 year ago

So that /you too/ can make smoke at home. lol

Great tutorial, I spent a long time figuring most of this out myself a while ago. I'm hoping that making smoke renderable becomes a bit more logical too. :P

And a tutorial on camera mapping would be pretty cool, do that.
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it :)

And yes, the rendering debacle is unbelievable! The number of steps required to get it rendering correctly is astounding. It should be automatic as soon as you select 'Domain'.

Ah well... I'm not a coder so I can't really complain ;)
Ram 1 year ago

Very useful, thanks ;-)
Andreas Antoniades 1 year ago

I have some issues with this videos. Firstly, the intro is too cheesy. Secondly, it is extremely unneccesary and distracting to have your face in the bottom right the whole time. Thirdly, it is way overlong; most people are short on time and want to get information quicker...I quit after 13 mins. Lastly and most importantly, it was almost useless to me because instead of showing us an example in the interface, you showed us panels cut up individually, and for a begginer/intermediate user it is much better to show where each panel is in relation to each other. The format for video tutorials (i.e. voice over video of you putting an example together) has worked for years, best keep to it.
Tobey McCyberfly 1 year ago

Can't agree. The demonstration was fine, video length acceptable and smoke simulation explained quite comprehensively. It may not be the regular kind of tutorial you're used to but seeing a more relaxed "making of" video in a long time was very refreshing. Even new features in latest builds were mentioned, which is exactly what I needed to know. Great tut..
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Thanks for the support Tobey :)

And thanks for your critiques Andreas. I'll take some of them on board.
Visual Feast 1 year ago

You quit at 13 min, Adreas? The tutorial part of the video started at 14:46... so maybe you should load it back up at that point and watch the rest!

And I agree its a bit long, but I enjoyed watching all of it, and learned quite a bit. Thanks for the video, Andrew.
Trevor Harris 1 year ago

You've got some scaling problems. It's not really believable to see smoke that looks like it's coming from a candle to be coming from a building on fire. It should be thicker. In fact, you shouldn't even need the smoke simulator because smoke on that scale wouldn't benefit much from it anyways. For large plumes of smoke, you should use a particle system and a volumetric material.
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Yeah the scaling problem is definately something I'm aware of. But it was the best I could do with the computer I've got. To make it more realistic I'd need to up the resolution, which my computer simply couldn't handle :(

And can you even apply a volumetric material to particles?
Trevor Harris 1 year ago

You can if you set the display type to sphere.
Stephane hentschel 1 year ago

Great tutorial. I'm looking forward to more of your tutorials. Your format did not distract me from the information you were giving.
Kristian Zuniga 1 year ago

hey how did you get the debris in your video? like the floating scraps of paper. im not sure if there is already a tutorial because im new, but im curious how to do it
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Particles! In the particle settings change the visualization to 'Object' then type the name of the object you want to appear (in my case a single sheet of paper). Blender will then render every particle as a sheet of paper. Play with the settings to get the right motion you want :)
Kristian Zuniga 1 year ago

ha that seems so obvious now, thank you
Joel Andersson 1 year ago

Are there any 32-bit version of the 2.5 you use?
Andrew Price 1 year ago

Of course! Most compilers provide both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Scroll down and you'll see multiple builds for 32-bit.
Dread Knight 1 year ago

graphicall.org for blender builds. I use it all the time :)
Joel Andersson 1 year ago

Ok cool. Looking forward to your fire tutorial!
Waylena McCully 1 year ago

Excellent tutorial, Andrew! You have single-handedly pulled me into the world of 2.5... Your explanation before taking us through the steps was most helpful. Thank you!
Cestmir Peltan 1 year ago

Didnt get to the tutorial itself yet. Just to say i love the video in the begining. I like the "epicness". I think the music gives it a lot as well. Well done.
Tekergo 1 year ago

Thank you! I really enjoy all of your tutorials.
I think, I'll start to use the 2.5.
Linux User 1 year ago

I really enjoy your tutorial!
Incredible stuff what blender can do.
I am curious about your announced flame instruction.
taymline 1 year ago

fantastic
Jacob Picart 1 year ago

This was an excellent video showing the new smoke features of 2.5. Although, 'Space' no longer brings up the Add options (I had a little trouble w/ that). Looking forward to BlenderCookie's upcoming 2.5 overview series (much as changed - for the better in 2.5). Nice work Andrew. Let us know when your fire tutorial is ready!
Josh Bainbridge 1 year ago

Great tutorial, I think the manner in which you thought out and explained the information was great. It’ll be good to see what you come up with next.
Rob Cozzens 1 year ago

Excellent tutorial. You did a great job explaining 'why' you set things the way you do, not just set this to x and this to y...
The web cam was good--especially when you are giving an overview and there's not much to watch otherwise.
Max Puliero 1 year ago

awesome!

the only limit of the smoke is that is actually impossible to use 2 times the same bake :(
Maxx Hunter 1 year ago

Great Blender tutorial. I liked the video in the webcam addition. Your tutorial was clear, thorough, and informative. Keep up the good work.
Mykolas Sadauskas 1 year ago

Thank you for this tutorial. It was very informative and fun to watch :)
cha 1 year ago

Comprehensive and clear, completely understand even English is not my mother tongue. Showing face is good. Length is also good for me as I didn't touch the smoke department yet. Keep going!!!
Konrad Mruk 1 year ago

Very good. I just cant wait for the fire tutorial. Two thumbs up!
Heiko Ihde 1 year ago

great, looking forward to the fire ;)

(i also prefer shorter video time, if everything important can be told in it)
Luis Felipe Ocampo 1 year ago

Wow this is a great tutorial and definitely a great insight into making smoke in Blender. thanks for taking the time to make it and the animation looks great! nice work. Looking forward to next week's tutorial! :D
I think the lenght is good and cam idea is cool, makes it more "professional".
Stephen Bates 1 year ago

Fantastic tutorial, I'm going to have to watch this more than once, nice work
Dread Knight 1 year ago

Thanks for making this; just what I needed :)
Edgar 1 year ago

Nice tutorial!! is very detail to let me know the smoke system!!
it`s awsome!!
hope to see more blender tutorial u made!!
Mario Kotlar, Eagleshadow 1 year ago

You are my new idol or something....! :D
blendificus 1 year ago

thanks for the thorough tut!
Civil Visions, LLC 1 year ago

Loved the idea for the shot! The tutorial is excellent! I thought the webcam addition was great; kind makes the tutorial more personal.
chotio 1 year ago

Congratulations for your work, it´s a fantastic tutorial. Thank you for do it.
saludos
adié
dandaddy 1 year ago

good job!!
thanks Andrew,
now the blender smoke it's me more clear
Dave T 1 year ago

Nice one!
Nicholas Mireles 1 year ago

Nicely done! Also, where do you get your sound effects?
Juanito Theodore 1 year ago

Really great tut man! Very well explained as usual and I really appreciate the web cam idea, it brings life to the tut isntead of just seeing the cursor moving and hearing a voice! Great job and THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP :)
Benjamin Bailey 1 year ago

GREAT intro :) The smoke (and the whole visual - such as where the smoke is coming out of the Empire State building,) could have been better, but as a whole it held together brilliantly, especially with the "We all fall down" music and titling. Stunning. :) Now onto watching the tutorial... hum-dee-dum... (Note: switching from such an epic intro to a webcam video... eeeh... nope. Bad move. Very anti-climatic.)
Benjamin Bailey 1 year ago

Just noticed: The distant smoke is moving too fast
Benjamin Bailey 1 year ago

Very good, man. Awesome stuff. Stop making such excellent content! :D Yes, I'd love to find out how you did the camera projection, and the falling papers, and the lighting, and the uv mapping, and the texturing... SHEESH :) I want to know it ALL :)

I love the mix of media: awesome intro, seeing you talk, seminar feel, and screen capture. I've had a somewhat similar idea but as I'm just starting out in doing video tutorials I haven't gotten the swing of things yet (and even if I had, I am not as experienced in Blender as you are, sorry to say.) Anyhow, great work.

Until next time!
Claudelle Girard 1 year ago

Thanks for this tutorial! I'm new at using Blender and find your tutorials very inspiring and educational :)
Joe Dunkley 1 year ago

Nice work, thanks for the tut!
Joel Godin 1 year ago

Great tut, very interesting. Nicely sectioned up, kept it interesting. You've got to be at least in the top 3 tut givers on Blender. I disagree with those that say it is too complex. If you just watch tuts on stuff you already know you will never get better. I agree that smoke is way too complex for what it does. The volume and voxel data settings should be something done in the background. But I'm glad to see it moving along, my first smoke creations were crashing my mac every time. Now, not, just long render times. Thanks for sharing all you know on this subject. Much more respect for someone who does that than keep it to themselves.
Plaideux Alexandre 1 year ago

I was searching that kind of video scince a long time!
Best regards Andrew!
sergiones 1 year ago

Andrew in minute 22:30 the render have two gray/black lines of the cube domine, you know how erase it ?
Gerald Lujan 1 year ago

you should do a tutorial of the city mapping because i could use it for a FBLA(future Buisness leaders of america) competition and your good at it
because i want to creat a view of a the city from chicago to orlando
Barış Can Öztürk 1 year ago

I don't use Blender but i enjoy watching these tutorials,gives me some interesting ideas.Thank you.
Jason Scott 7 months ago

awsome tutorial very easy to understand. even for a beginer as myself. its hard to belive this is free software
Jimmy Gunawan 3 weeks ago

Cheers for this tutorial Andrew, I finally understand the basic of Smoke simulation in Blender.