Thursday, 14 April 2011 16:36

Tutorial: Introduction to Fluid Particles in Blender

Written by  Gottfried Hofmann
Since Version 2.57, Blender has a Fluid Particle Simulation integrated that is easier to use than ever. This Tutorial will show you the basics.

As a demonstration for the capabilities of the new SPH Fluid Particles you will learn how to recreate the first scene I ever saw that used the Blender Fluid Particles. It was created by Farsthary last year and really showed off. You will also how to add an outline to text in Blender utilizing the power of reflections.

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Download starter- and finished Blendfile here!

I've created two more demos of the new Fluid Simulation for you to play with and get a grasp of the settings. Both have Blendfiles and Preview-Videos available:

BlenderDiplom Fluid Particles Test 04BlenderDiplom Fluid Particles Test 03

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  • CC-BY 3.0: This tutorial and blendfiles are released under the Creative Commons License CC-BY 3.0 Unported
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  • Comment Link syed Wednesday, 27 June 2012 10:09 posted by syed

    Hey Got

    My bottom vertices are pemeable, it doesnt flows on the surface as shows in Tutorial, please help

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  • Comment Link barriallen Monday, 17 October 2011 15:49 posted by barriallen

    Very good tutorial. I followed it, enjoyed, and learned something.
    Thank you.

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  • Comment Link fonzy Sunday, 02 October 2011 03:57 posted by fonzy

    I followed along with the tutorial and created a pretty cool particle fluid title animation. But I was hungry for creating a more realistic fluid effect, I also did some editing in the video sequence editor after watching your tutorial on that and this is what I came up with:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFVABiRuLao

    Thanks for the awesome tutorials!! I can't wait to finish the rest!... very cool.

  • Comment Link fonzy Monday, 26 September 2011 08:43 posted by fonzy

    This tutorial is very cool ! Now I can play around with particle fluid animation. But how do you create more realistic fluid animations?

  • Comment Link Manuel Bujes Sunday, 21 August 2011 01:01 posted by Manuel Bujes

    Very useful this tutorial, using particles as a fluid, i love it!!!, the only problem the time rendering but pretty cool!!!

    Thanks for the tutorial!!

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 22 July 2011 16:08 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Hey chetan, the card I use is a GeForce 8600 GTS with 512 MByte of RAM. Pretty dated already, I guess every newer card can handle more polys...

  • Comment Link chetan Friday, 22 July 2011 06:58 posted by chetan

    which graphics card do you use, seems to me it can handle lots of polygons

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 24 June 2011 17:42 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    tbagriyanik your bouncy saucage-like structures are cool!

  • Comment Link tbagriyanik Friday, 24 June 2011 15:49 posted by tbagriyanik

    here is my strange sample:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhoPIL8rEUg

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Tuesday, 14 June 2011 17:01 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Nemanja: Hehe, maybe Google will chose your approach as official logo for the web for one day ;)

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