Saturday, 06 October 2012 11:56

Tutorial: Advanced Particle Trail in Blender 2.64

Written by  Gottfried Hofmann
Tutorial: Advanced Particle Trail in Blender 2.64
This tutorial for Blender 2.64 or later shows you how to create an advanced particle trail in Cycles using new features like the particle info node.

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Download the starter- and finished Blendfile here!

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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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16 comments

  • Comment Link Kayawnboymn Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:19 posted by Kayawnboymn

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  • Comment Link indigoz Sunday, 02 December 2012 18:03 posted by indigoz

    Another fantastic tutorial, helpful and interesting. Many thanks! You are very knowledgeable.

  • Comment Link smile Thursday, 22 November 2012 04:30 posted by smile

    simply GREAT, excellent presentation, you have improved my skill level sir!

  • Comment Link Douglas Tuesday, 16 October 2012 16:09 posted by Douglas

    Great Tutorial!
    I unpacked some image texture images using blender, then found the HDR on openfootage.net
    Because the URL was in the name of the HDR.
    Thanks again!

  • Comment Link Douglas Monday, 15 October 2012 23:51 posted by Douglas

    Is there a reason i cannot see any textures in the start up file? The tower is purple.

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Monday, 15 October 2012 12:39 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Elia: I got an idea how to create volumetric light rays in Cycles, let me experiment a bit and maybe I can do a tutorial.

    Amy: You cannot use the strands directly in Cycles but you can use particle instaces. Jimmy Gunawan made a tut on that topic:

    http://blendersushi.blogspot.de/2012/02/vfx-particle-instance-modifier.html

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Monday, 15 October 2012 12:35 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Hey Joshua, changing the color over the lifetime looks really cool!

    Karl: Your result looks very much like some Trapcode Particular-Demo I've seen recently. You really show that Blender is playing with the big boys now :)

  • Comment Link Karl.S Friday, 12 October 2012 22:32 posted by Karl.S

    Hi Gotfried, I wanted to thank you because after having seen you video, I wanted to do something different but with the same method.

    Here is the result :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm1aZ5KkQ4I

  • Comment Link radeoflier Friday, 12 October 2012 19:17 posted by radeoflier

    I'm SOOO glad you posted a table of contents with this video!!!

    The tutorial is great, but the table of contents lets me fish back and forth through it when I need to review in the future - VERY HELPFUL!

    (oh, yeah, the tutorial is epic as well!!!)

  • Comment Link torglut Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:02 posted by torglut

    Nice tutorial.
    Thank you for sharing this.

  • Comment Link Amy Thursday, 11 October 2012 14:11 posted by Amy

    Looks promising, will practice this today.

    On an another question, is it possible to make use of fur particles with Cycles? I tried to swap from the settings in my BI to Cycles but the particles for the hair disappear.

  • Comment Link Elia Thursday, 11 October 2012 10:38 posted by Elia

    Gottfried, is it now possible to create volumetric light rays in Cycles?
    If so, a video showing how to do so would be awesome.
    Thanks

  • Comment Link Joshua Godwin Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:42 posted by Joshua Godwin

    Nice tutorial. I tried out the particle effect and got this.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt9ELch7zks

  • Comment Link Gottfried Hofmann Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:12 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

    Hey tarik, cool first result. In your version, one can clearly see that the particles spawn frame-wise when using the path for the movement of the emitter. In such I case I suggest to try out the motion trail-addon I show in this tutorial:
    http://blenderdiplom.com/index.php/tutorials/item/29-tutorial-light-streaks-in-blender

  • Comment Link tarik bagriyanik Monday, 08 October 2012 20:35 posted by tarik bagriyanik

    thanks Gottfried;

    here is my render:
    http://youtu.be/5kXKqH3_ko4

  • Comment Link Tung Saturday, 06 October 2012 18:49 posted by Tung

    Woah Gottfried,
    This is an amazing tutorial, lots of great new features that has gone into this release :)
    Thank you for the wealth of knowledge you have :)

    Cheers,
    ~Tung

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