Wall destruction simulation in blender

What effect would you like to see next? Don't hesitate to leave some feedback if there's something about this format you'd like to change.
Feel free to download the scene and the smoke elements here
www.patreon.com/granitefilms
Music by Egon Edman
kzbin.info/door/hVbyxhNzzcagwcGeoNZDWg
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Building the bricks
3:45 - Breaking the wall
4:24 - Adding plaster to the bricks
6:22 - Building wooden structure
7:55 - Adding plywood
8:10 - Downloading textures
8:54 - Texturing
9:41 - Wood splinters
10:51 - Plaster particles
11:30 - Simulating smoke
13:06 - Importing open VDB
13:26 - Shading the smoke
14:27 - Putting everything together
14:43 - Final render

[@Smooth_Shading]

At the end, you asked for suggestions on improving the quality of your video format. Honestly, brother, I'd be surprised if you get any. The quality is already through the roof! The result is incredible, the pacing of the tutorial is engaging, the narration is clear and concise. Your style is humble but skilled and confident. You're doing a fantastic job at creating these videos. Just keep up the great work man!

[@AlbinThorburn]

That's awesome to hear. Thank you! Made my day

[@crypt0sFX]

That's one tough wall. The chipping really complimented the effect.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Swedish build quality ;)

[@christophschmitt4600]

Since you've made the two best cinematic cell fracture tutorials, I'd like to challenge you by suggesting you to make a tutorial where a projectile enters a material or ricochets in slow motion. It would be great to see such a scene where you can see the impact in as much detail as possible, with sparks, deformation of the projectile etc. And all that in slow motion and depth of field. This would certainly put the focus on the details as there is a lot going on in slow motion here. Just a suggestion! 🙂

[@AlbinThorburn]

Definitely writing that one down. That would be so cool! :D

[@SergeVolkovMusic]

Reminded me a scene from Crysis 1 trailer when a bullet hits nanosuit in maximum armor mode

[@JayPalacpac]

This is such a great tut! looking forward to see next ones! :D

[@andrewgil2850]

Your channel is amazing quick tutorials with no bs it’s just the best sort!

[@alsoegonedman]

You’re saving a lot of peoples time that’s for sure. Good job!

[@BorisBrodski]

Amazing work, amazing explanation. Just what I was looking for for a long time...

[@jimbo_t]

Amazing tutorial! I didn't find anything as good anywhere else! I'm really grateful you did it, and Keep up the good work!

[@stuartyounger5801]

Brilliant work, love these tutorials 👍

[@spearcy]

I won't lie. I had to replay often, but I learned a lot. I think there are many steps that would be easy to forget about if one didn't do this kind of effect on a regular basis.

[@noobish]

this is a top tier tutorial dude its so straight to the point, very nice

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you!

[@MajinMuu]

That begining demonstration is all i need to see to subscribe

[@quadronaut]

Dude. I LOVE YOUR DESTRUCTION VIDEOS!!! Please make more and more!! I love them and I love the way you teach.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you :D

[@davidthorburn7127]

Awesome demolition! I especially enjoy how your different layers work together and that they don’t fall all at once. I personally wouldn’t mind a slightly slower pace though ;) Keep up the great work, truly amazing!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Tack farsan!

[@reese_shah]

Very clear tutorials! Thank you!!👍👍👍👍

[@MACHINEBUILDER]

This is amazing! No idea why I'm only finding it now, but it's really well made. One suggestion for improvement (not in terms of the video format but rather final render) would be the scene lighting- it would make the final product even more enticing for people to try recreate. Other than that though, awesome video!

[@marco_martin]

Literally the perfect tutorial that a beginner should expect. Keep up the great work man we appreciate soooo much 😀😀❤️❤️🤗🤗

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it:)

[@xzombiefx]

Wow wow wow, another amazing and good quality blender tutorial, ty for this amazing tutorials. I realy want to see how this tutorials and your channel improves by the time ❤️❤️

[@AlbinThorburn]

It'll be fun to have you around! :D

[@MadManTnT]

Really great. Thank you!

[@taishi00]

Wow!! That’s awesome!! Thanks for your great tutorial 😍

[@AlbinThorburn]

Glad you liked it!

[@ninthjake]

I actually really love your tutorials. You have a near perfect format of showing exactly as much of the process as you need to get the point across but not so much that it gets tedious. Bra jobbat! :) I do have a tip though. Instead of having to right-click every field and copying it to the selected objects you can just hold "Alt" while clicking a box or changing a value and it will get replicated to all the objects that you have selected. I think it will save you a bit of time.

[@AlbinThorburn]

You just saved me a lot of time XD THANK YOU!

[@zitongxu6007]

thank you, bro , this looks very nice

[@GUL3DWORLD]

very very useful tutorial. thanks bro.

[@redpillblupill]

1:48 - !!!!!! YES !!!!!! that has saved me probably DAYS - I had a OSM object that contained all of the buildings - but they weren't INDIVIDUAL - EDITABLE objects - so I was in the process of learning landscape and building creation .... but not now!

[@digitalvectorONE]

The content and mastery of the subject you have dealt with is unique in thirteen years studying blender. The quality of the video does have certain defects that can surely be corrected and optimized with the capture and editing program you use. Thanks and greetings from Cuba

[@AlbinThorburn]

Awesome, thanks! Greetings from Sweden

[@user-oq8bb6xb3z]

Nice work

[@horiamoldovean6074]

so cool , keep it going!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you! I will :D

[@maamangalaxerox3645]

Wow nice bro 👌👌

[@Levi_Zacharias]

Love this tutorial, thank you so much!

[@AlbinThorburn]

You're welcome! Glad you liked it

[@ryanberry2828]

Great Job

[@scyclad123]

great video thanks

[@PedroGonzalez-oh8sb]

Outstanding

[@BugNotice]

Tack! Otroligt behövande :)

[@user-vu3on1fx6e]

本当に助かりました。良い動画をありがとう。 this is most useful tutorial. thank you for this nice work.

[@petrprochazka2977]

you improved my skills. Thanks for giving me the chance of being successful man in my life

[@AlbinThorburn]

Great to hear. Keep learning!

[@samarpanchal2218]

Very Good Bro

[@sourabhmahali9140]

superb its helpful thank you brother

[@user-ch6gn8jk2z]

it's great tutorial... that's amazing..thanks..

[@carloscastaneda9687]

very cool learning material. subscription) keep up the good work

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you!

[@sbuhtech818]

Nice video

[@ehnmusik]

amazing looking to make a building blow up!

[@JSM11140]

this is what i looking for

[@NoNNNNN]

I love how i watch this video when barely knowing how to insert a cube into blender

[@amirturab6989]

Grate tutorial thanks

[@akshay_xolo]

Tnks bro❤🔥

[@user-wh8hw8hv6y]

that is cool

[@lylewyant3356]

This video is right on time. I was wondering how I could make a wall like this.

[@mr_stanton2773]

Nice and well done methodology tutorial ! But, to answer your suggestion request at the end of the video, you may need to hit an add-on that display's the devices keys your are using in blender. And maybe subtitles for the very importants quotes and task ^^

[@sambabassesoumare798]

Cooool.

[@kingdeanvfx]

HAT OFF. brooo 🙏🏻

[@AlbinThorburn]

Eyyy🥳

[@michaelwerkov3438]

This looks really good... I would love to see maybe a way to "define" the material and grain direction with some attribute, and then be able to use geometry nodes and the new simulation nodes, so that you could maybe model a building, with brick wood plaster and glass all defined in the individual object's attributes... and then be able to assign a collider or explosion source in in the geometry nodes, and be able to move the destruction location around without completely re-doing everything

[@AlbinThorburn]

That's such a cool idea! I'm hard at work trying to figure out destruction with geo nodes, I feel like there are some cool opportunities with that.

[@sadamundafacts155]

Good

[@GhoulSoulToll]

Hi, Love your tutorials. I noticed that you're not doing any smoke sims on the actual debris itself but rather just bringing in VDBs. Maybe a challenge you can do is actually creating smoke simulations on the debris itself so when the collisions happen there's accurate smoke trails from the shrapnel?

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm sure that would look great! :D

[@Robolord123]

Maybe a video on some metal bending / destruction? Would love to see that!

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm working on a tutorial on bullet hits in slow motion, and I'll simulate some metal in that one!

[@Robolord123]

@@AlbinThorburn Nice to hear! Looking forward to it!

[@esphilee]

I would say if you can add shaking and dust coming off the entire surface of the wall also the ground when the projectile hits, right at the start of the explosion. That is what I notice on some video footage of projectile hitting wall, the shock makes the entire wall emit dust, not just the part that is hit.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Oooh I see what you mean. Like when the shockwave hits. Good eyes, I'll do that next time. Thanks mate!

[@YoutubeBobr]

Спасибо

[@mitek1qw]

спасибо добрый человек!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Добро пожаловать! Спасибо за просмотр

[@kadabra8]

Які неймовірні речі👍 Настав час зруйнувати кілька будівель)

[@skywish_post]

Thanks for the tutorial. Have you detailed information bout texturing this scene. I have some problems with bricks (it always looks not realistic) Maybe you have a tutorial about it?

[@alexanimationgoofy]

in every simulations in blender there are always some pieces that keep moving in the end in a weird way, also in this, the overall look is quite good but how to easily fix magic pieces that act like that? when you try to keep changing masses, links and so on to fix, everything can go bad easily

[@AlbinThorburn]

You can try increasing the simulation steps in the scene tab :)

[@alekjwrgnwekfgn]

Wizard

[@namishsharma8772]

Hey there, amazing tutorial. I tried rendering the output in evee but the materials look very weird. At one frame the materials are alright but on the next one the wall just renders as solid i.e, without the textures on some parts. Any help?

[@mangray]

Hi a Great workl I have a question.When rendering I see the emitter (sphere). What do I have to set so that I only see the particles but not the sphere.

[@AlbinThorburn]

There is a "show emmiter" box under the render tab on the particle system. Dissable that :D

[@alucardvfx9357]

Great tutorial! But what did you do between 11:57 and 11:59? Im trying to recreate the smoke but im stuck with the shape as seen at 11:57 without the individual puffs like at 11:59 after you cut the footage… :/

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm just animating that emitter to shape the smoke :)

[@acidicunicorn8884]

what you did at 6:00 too much skipping is not good, you added rigid body to the plaster and connected what with what? in your animation the plaster comes off with the broken bricks but in my animation entire plaster falls off. Please help

[@vu8422]

8:30 texture 12:27 hiệu ứng hòa tan 2:15 3:37 11:32 14:05

[@juligvazquez]

I love this tutorial but I can't seem to connect all the bricks somehow. I'm disabling collisions and turning on breakable on my constraints but there's one single brick that breaks and prevents the bricks from sticking together :( EDIT: Looks like the floor was messing that somehow. Just moved it and it looks like it's sticking Also. On another blendfile I found out I had some hidden geometry with a rigid body sim turned on and that made the wall explode itself. Just writing it down in case someone's end up making the same mistakes I did.

[@saisondeking8267]

🤗

[@sauucey3152]

on 3:53, how did you make the cubes and constraints go into one single object in the top right. So its easier to work with?

[@sauucey3152]

nvm i see now

[@sambabassesoumare1168]

[@oluwayinkaemmanuelajibola449]

Please i don't understand 6:00 - 6:05, i can see during the simulation some of your layers are shattered while some on the upper side are still together with the bricks. For me all layers were shattered and falling down, though some are attached to themselves but not attached to the brick. Please what am i doing wrong?

[@jdchoreographer]

HOW TO render export my video is not playing after exporting video , the video becomes image

[@svarupa4025]

hey man, awesome content! however, the armature menu changed in blender 4.0 and i am confused since i am a beginner. please help

[@drumboarder1]

Tell ya Hwhat, Blender SURE does love crashing a lot doing this

[@AlbinThorburn]

Haha yes it crashed maybe two times while filming this video

[@drumboarder1]

@@AlbinThorburn only two? You lucky mofo

[@sepehrmagma7940]

when I click on rigid body connect blender stop working and after long time it make some bricks move together my system is 12700k and 3080ti 16 ram 3200 pls help

[@DamielBE]

Does it work as it is in 3.4 and beyond?

[@user-sn6ew1sg5i]

hi,How can I get export glb or fbx from this file?

[@AEArthur]

mine keeps crashing when i did the connect thing any idea why? ive got a good pc so thats not the problem

[@CGSoulMotion]

where can I download smoke elements from? can anyone please help?

[@W00JDA]

Im shocked how easy it is to get something like that.

[@AlbinThorburn]

That's awesome! That's exactly what I'm trying to do, make "scary" 3d stuff approachable :)

[@angelinadash2396]

Is it possible to somehow PLUG this data into some OTHER game sdk to make walls destsructible in game? Rather than just merely a pre-rendered VIDEO?!?!?

[@theluc1f3r93]

Tetures and render quallity definitelly, bricks not destruct realistic, wood look quite realistic, wall could have 1 more layer (concreate and stuco). Bt in overal its really nice tutorial, I am out of money, so I am lelearning all in blender...

[@willlacey359]

Around 2 minutes 40 when you run the first simulation, it runs perfectly fine but when I do it, its slow and laggy even though when I check task manager, nothings maxing out with the biggest percentage being 35% on memory, is there any way I can maximise my PC so it stops being slow when doing the physics simulations?

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm not sure actually, perhaps you could lower the simulation steps in the rigid body world?

[@erlon1506]

Cool. But since you made it so realistic then maybe bricks should get destroyed too a bit ... :P

[@chinonsopromise4962]

Bro i'm trying to run a wall destruction sim. but the problem is that i can not get to make the plaster layer to stick to each other until affected by the block animated rigid body. What could be the cause? I've tried increasing the treshold and changing a lot of things but it just keeps falling apart in the beginning of the sim

[@AlbinThorburn]

You can always cheat and change the rigid body world to start at the frame of the explosion! :D

[@chinonsopromise4962]

@@AlbinThorburn that's what I did before seeing this reply, thanks And I also used animated instead of dynamic to make it stay before the impact, especially on the edges that will not move

[@boreeeed]

2 questions 1. When i have duplicated it, i cant select the original plaster again (i can but then i select the brick as well) 2. When i am Lucky and can select the plaster again, i got the problem that i add a rigid body ect. and when i play the animation the original cube flows away together with the other pieces?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hmm, that doesn't sound quite right... Maybe you forgot to apply the origin to the center of the pieces? You can change what parts you want to explode away by checking "animated" on the rigid body tab. Leave a new comment if you need more help, that way I can see it here from youtube studio.

[@boreeeed]

@@AlbinThorburn yes it did work, but also (idk if its right but it worked) i deleted the original cube after i cell fractured it. There is still one thing i am stuck with tho, and that is when i try to connect the plaster it doesn't show up, the only option on rigid body is: add active, add passive, remove, change shape, calculate mass and apply transformation. wich is strange because it showed up on the brick?

[@evanmettlen9286]

How do you make the particle emitter disappear?

[@AlbinThorburn]

It's under the render settings on the particle system, there's a checkbox for "show emitter"

[@VFxArk]

How to create sand particle simulation in blender

[@atharvasharma1284]

How yo added the sound at final render?

[@AlbinThorburn]

I used hitfilm and just got some sound effects online :)

[@213SmokeyBadazz]

"What effect would you like to see next?" - Any special effects can be good since there is not that much of specific things like you do?

[@AlbinThorburn]

That's a good idea!

[@makeandbreakgames1791]

WTF? I've made destruction simulations before and never know about chain by neighbors!

[@bastianrekiem2925]

😯😮😶

[@user-bk6st1ye3f]

How to transfer such VFX from Blender to UE4?

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm not sure, but you can try exporting everything as an fbx file

[@user-ch6gn8jk2z]

3:48 complication, but I don't know how to blinding "connection pibot?" ...

[@AlbinThorburn]

Im not sure how to fix that:/ try going to object-set origin-origin to centre of mass. Cheers!

[@SplitPaint]

Graphics card has left the chat.

[@advaittripathi865]

I can't bake it

[@isfact482]

How long time ..you Come

[@AlbinThorburn]

HUH xD

[@BKMistake12]

Good tutorial, but if you want a sugestion, You talk and explain things too fast, it wouldn't hurt to go a little slower. Other than that, awesome tutorial! ;)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Great feedback! I'll take that into consideration :)

[@bastianrekiem2925]

Este video es brutal, yo sabía como crear y destruir pero mucho de este tutorial como conectar los cuerpos rígidos y otros, no lo sabia y me dejan con un........qué?. Muy genial no

[@AlbinThorburn]

Muchas gracias el senior gracias gracias

[@ElmoPlayss]

When I hit P like you did nothing happens??

[@AlbinThorburn]

I'm not sure how to fix that :/

[@ElmoPlayss]

@@AlbinThorburn I found out you need to be in edit mode 😅

[@AlbinThorburn]

@@ElmoPlayss Oh! Yeah that helps ;D