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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27 comments

  • Comment Link zarathoustra Saturday, 26 May 2012 03:16 posted by zarathoustra

    thanks for theses videos.

  • Comment Link Filip Monday, 12 March 2012 21:28 posted by Filip

    VIOLA - pronounced "vee-OH-la." A stringed instrument very similar to the violin, but larger and playing withing a lower range (a fifth down).

    VOILÀ - pronounced "vwa-LAH." A French expression meaning "there it is."

  • Comment Link Paul Thursday, 08 March 2012 16:47 posted by Paul

    Plane Punkt red :D

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

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

  • Comment Link billy boo Wednesday, 05 October 2011 13:17 posted by billy boo

    i am a total beginner to blender, and i find it awesome!

  • 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 ;)

  • Comment Link Nemanja Sunday, 12 June 2011 17:41 posted by Nemanja

    Hey Fottried, amassing tutorial's, ill be visiting this site.
    Very interesting tutorial themes covered and thanks for sharing ;)

    This is what i made
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rnYEmE2P0&feature=player_profilepage

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Saturday, 30 April 2011 20:47 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Chetan: My box is rather slow. My Intel q6600 is nearly 4 years old now. But I got 8 gigs of RAM installed, which allows big scenes. I have to wait a while for each frame to finish, though.

  • Comment Link chetan Saturday, 30 April 2011 17:38 posted by chetan

    HEY, What are your System specs. It's just awesome. My PC cannot handle such bunches of polys. Then how can yours.But this tutorial just marvelous.

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Friday, 29 April 2011 13:02 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    blazraidr: you keep surprising me!

  • Comment Link blazraidr Friday, 29 April 2011 11:35 posted by blazraidr

    i have another test, this time using a force field to affect the particles:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5TMggdIeIY

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Thursday, 21 April 2011 19:30 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    blazraidr: Your tests are really good, especially #3

    Neil: I'm glad you liked it. I got a few ideas where fluid particles come to good use even without tesselation :)

  • Comment Link Neil Kolban Tuesday, 19 April 2011 18:56 posted by Neil Kolban

    Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed this tutorial. If you do plan to do more on Fluid Particles, I for one would love to watch. There seems to be so much more to learn about them.

    Neil

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