Blender for Beginners: Realistic Smoke and Fire

[@JGulickx]

This is one of the best tutorials on youtube. Not just for Blender. Especially because you explain WHY you change certain parameters and settings. THANK YOU.

[@CBaileyFilm]

You're welcome!

[@noteworthygolf]

But not how always 😩

[@renoacine]

i agree this is not just "shut up! don't ask! just click this!" tutorial.. C bailey is a true teacher

[@SpencerMagnusson]

One tip I've seen from older tutorials - vary the smoke inflow's emission, both over time and over location. Make the inflow object animated and displace it, or vary where the emission happens over time. Keeping it in the same place and at the same rate makes it look rather dull. This is a great tutorial. It gives more than enough for beginners to start :)

[@CBaileyFilm]

Great tip @spencer! That would take things to the next level for sure.

[@vijayanmuthuraj1691]

8:04 thats because it is connected in surface options of materials. selecting principled volume in volume option fits correctly. (it is the third option in materials panel{preview-surface-volume})

[@teakettle7021]

Side note: that bit about cache was gold 😂😂

[@lordcrayzar]

I like that inflow flows out and outflow flows in.

[@Snairster]

Definitely the best fire tutorial. There's others that're helpful to amateurs such as myself, but don't go into detail like you did. You explained every step of the way and I didn't feel lost at all. This is helping me on my current project, so thanks!

[@SlickFX_Trader]

Awesome tutorial mate. A fellow Melbournite here :). Just one thing I have not been able to do and I have searched far and wide. Reduce the flames and smoke to sit only at the bottom of the object like It's starting to catch fire? THis is a great tutorial and the best one on the net. Explains in detail the steps that most miss skip over and actually explains why selecting what we are selecting! Thank you again

[@aigfatal]

So i'm following along and at 2:50 when you play it back, you have smoke, but for me there is still no smoke. I rewatched the initial steps so many times and I'm following exactly but I still cant figure out whats going on. someone please help

[@Makuinv]

same

[@3DPrinterAcademy]

Same...

[@reganoh1730]

same did anyone figure this out?

[@GemboyTV]

go to 8:57

[@Temmie_Dola]

@@GemboyTV its not about it. somethink wronf with cahing i believe and even if you bake all smoke is doesnt shows up

[@ShovonaKarmakar]

I genuinely love the way you explain and make a tutorial sound so much fun, :) I try to avoid those hour-long ones.

[@rededwards3479]

GREAT vid...SOMETIMES NEW users have a hard time figuring out how to get the BAKE Option to Appear. That switch from REPLAY to ALL does the trick. I know I could not FIND that thing for NOTHING

[@BlackShArk665]

Chris i want to see anything that You have on Your mind, cause it's always fun to watch

[@CBaileyFilm]

Thanks BlackShArk665!

[@TheDaNuker]

As an add-on to this excellent basic tutorial for EEVEE stylized flames, I have a suggestion to have a follow up video on explaining the fire Volume Info attributes. The documentation on this is a little confusing due to the Mantaflow switch and I'm not certain if some of the older attributes like 'heat' are still applicable.

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

Welp, thirty seconds in and there's zero smoke in my cube, so I guess I'm done here.

[@georgigeeksky8349]

I love this guy! He explains everything so good and makes it very simple to understand!

[@matthewcs490]

And has great jokes! "Because that's what monkeys do.....monkeys with smoke coming out of their heads." -Chris Bailey Sometimes i come back to this video just to hear that.

[@sweetcorn1936]

4 hours i spend trying to do all this and then found this guy subbed pal follow you form now on x

[@marcelofeijao8411]

Was searching for this for a reallyyyy long time. You "lose" some time explain every step and option you change and I can't thank you enough for that!! SUBED

[@stirrcrazy2704]

Adding volumetric light bounces in cycles can also make it look better, right?

[@quickzero289]

About 30 - 40 percentage of magic comes from volumetric light bounces Edit: only increase light bounces if its close just saying

[@federico2839]

Yes, cycles is the option also for raytracing

[@I_hu85ghjo]

Bro, best tutorial out there

[@zana3d]

Excellent as always! Thank you for telling us the WHY, not just the HOW

[@wespaul1997]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I had to step away from the computer at 4:04, and I couldn't leave that comment. But, I really enjoyed this tutorial. So I am now a sub of your content. cache ... cache ... cache ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jugibur2117]

Thank you very much for your effort, with you I have now finally understood the basic concept - even if my fire unfortunately looks quite different (worse) despite the exact values. And strangely enough, sometimes my fire doesn't update when I change the values either.... But here probably only helps: practice, practice, practice...

[@joachimfure8030]

It only updates when you make changes to the domain object. So if you make changes to the inflow object, just go and change the sampling on the domain object one up or down.

[@thatwasmetal9179]

This guys humor is great

[@3DPrinterAcademy]

RIP doesn't seem to work, idk why

[@lucutes2936]

same

[@nithinjithu8404]

hardest way to create smoke.. i loved it... i love chalanges

[@determinare42]

If you do everything right but you don't see smoke and you tried everything - change cache format to uni

[@MrButafor1]

Greets to Australia from Moscow,thanks man.

[@rodrigoceccatodefreitas1656]

I really appreciate the way you explain stuff

[@123masteryoda123]

Love the video, thank you. What if you wanted a collision object to interact with the fire, such as a stove burner and a frying pan on it? I've tried creating a collision object but the fire just goes through it. Tnx and Merry Christmas.

[@123masteryoda123]

NM, Fluid / Effector / Collision.

[@OduzzRocks]

@@123masteryoda123 Whats NM please?

[@123masteryoda123]

@@OduzzRocks NM is Never mind. Sorry. I re-watched and figured it out. The video was very helpful. Thank you.

[@rafvanraevels]

Nice effect. I do have only a tiny amount of smoke, though.

[@charis9]

hi! question, is it better to render on eevee or cycles? for this particular project? thank you so much!

[@Hi-6969]

If you want realistic looking water, cycles is the easier option as you only need to tweak a few things(IOR, Roughness, Transmission, etc.) to make a realistic looking fluid

[@pitched7401]

When you select the input node of the Material Output Surface input, of course it will put the node into the surface

[@marsmotion]

can wind be added to make the sim react to that and change giving it a more a-symmetrical look?

[@umwurf42]

haha u answered the question ur self almost evry imaginable thing is possible. Must be a parameter in the emeter or in the volume. Then some things doesn't works well in elvee

[@katiebarber407]

i think u could add a empty and put wind forces on it

[@CBaileyFilm]

Yes! Just add wind to the scene and run the sim again. Presto!

[@TheSunlithEarth]

Dude you are fire, thank you so much for the effort and time!

[@benjaminogbo9126]

Thanks for skipping the common crap in the intro First useful tutorial I've seen in soo long

[@deadspirit6]

Awesome tutorial

[@inknpaintCW]

Super good tutorial. Thanks I'm in America and I pronounce it Ke$ha - because pronunciation tribalism is silly.

[@CBaileyFilm]

Hahaha. Down with tribalism!

[@JefferyOdyssey]

Great work. This was a very helpful tutorial

[@محمدحمود-ك3ل]

اشكرك انت الافضل❤

[@ict-b01bonosluizygnaciodg.22]

is it possible to parent the simulation for fire on other objects so it moves along with it?

[@AkramGhareeb]

This is really nice brother

[@jannes1303]

Awesome video, but one question: How can I tweak the hight of the fire? So like the fire to smoke ratio?

[@MrNotAGamer]

i dont know if you can do that tbh

[@tmoneygamestudio]

The green flame is more of a natural gas/propane burn if it's got contaminants in it.

[@MoonkeyMod]

Excellent guide, really clear and easy to follow, I am wondering how I could take this a step further to create a burst of flame like a flamethrower

[@OduzzRocks]

Lovely tutorial... What if I want to quench the fire with water? How can I do that?

[@Biblebite-f1c]

Thanks for sharing such a good tutorial

[@ripdoxyyy]

Had to scroll to find this comment. "If you do everything right but you don't see smoke and you tried everything - change cache format to uni". Thank you @Борис Иванов

[@Djsoulraver]

Great tutorial! Good explaination as well! Thanx!!!

[@benjaminogbo9126]

Im gonna subscribe right now, hopefully you're content is all like this or better

[@eclairesrhapsodos5496]

You just check volume shader in surface tab on right, there volume tab too. So happy that blender has shader editor with nodes now, its be so much pain in old versions.

[@jeet9277]

Great tutorial... :)

[@rededwards3479]

Great Video. Where do you get your FREE 3D models

[@CBaileyFilm]

I found this one on turbo squid. I just googled "burned building 3d model" and looked for anything free.

[@kakarotleo.3D]

thanks sir.

[@kel_]

superniceeeee

[@followerofthetrain6336]

How might you set this up if you wanted the fire to spread over time from bottom to top? I’m sure you would use keyframes but what exactly would you be changing? Would each key frame need different vertexes selected?

[@norikaGilbert]

that was great, thank you. I just have one more problem because my object looks black in rendered view..

[@the_sophile]

Thanks

[@groovynelson1575]

Burn baby Burn!!! Thanks and sorry about the cache thing...?? So the guy who has the SuperGloop handle did a coin collecting game on the old Blender system 8 years ago and I would like to see a tutorial on the UPBGE version if you or anyone else would like to post that. It's a cool game concept but I don't know the controls on the new system. I know some but not enough...Anyway thanks for burning stuff!!

[@KasiVids]

How do people get the domain not to cut off their smoke simulation? Do u animate it's height overtime?

[@DemNikoArt]

So basically you make your domain as big as it needs to be without cutting it off. Then in the domain settings there's the option called "adaptive domain". This will change the scale of the domain related to the size of your fire/smoke. This will save you a lot of baking time since the domain size will change with the size of your simulation :)

[@KasiVids]

@@DemNikoArt Thanks for explaining

[@kooale3252]

@@DemNikoArt adaptive domain doesnt reduce baking time but rather filesize. Since blender wont have to store the data for the empty voxels.

[@DemNikoArt]

@@kooale3252 Aaaah interesting. Good to know, thanks 🙂

[@SIDESHOWTHEANIMEKID]

Can you use this method for just scenic photo?

[@lucutes2936]

it seems to work with the quick effect option, but not when I make separate objects like shown in this video

[@lucutes2936]

im guessing because the shaders were different like in 7:40

[@-Belshazzar-]

Don't get me wrong I appreciate your effort in making this tutorial and not that I can do better I can't, but it's not very realistic. If we compare this to houdini or fumefx blender still looks like a cartoon simulation

[@hunternoahmartinez9701]

bro those take weeks to render

[@inknpaintCW]

I don't doubt what you're saying - but -1. if you tweak the settings in Blender you can get pretty realistic results. 2.Most of the time these effects are not to be stared at, but to be flashed on the screen to support X action/event.

[@-Belshazzar-]

@@xanzuls thanks man!

[@TheBrownGaming]

@@xanzuls Yo can you help me? Ive done this same tutorial multiple times and its still not comming out right, do you possibly have the blender file done for this that I could use?

[@trystanbleuven791]

is it possible to set rigid body on fire ? for exemple a cube falling..but on fire

[@muneebchangezi1658]

Can you explain how to simulate fire on a curve path?

[@vanoperadze6160]

how can i make my blender look white like that? thank you.

[@Dext0rr]

On the right select tab "world". Change colour.

[@davidstedmond7705]

go to world settings tab and change colour there. The icon looks like a red earth. It should be five icons above the physics tab.

[@hayyew6593]

thanks for the clarification i been saying it for years and thout the same

[@unodostresblender3680]

Thanks for your intelligence

[@MsDexter47]

hello I have a problem with this tutorial. It works on a changed scale to mm and when I try to do these simulations it is not correct or you know how to consider this problem. I have to keep the scales in millimeter

[@danielf5651]

Genius

[@paulmaguire872]

Thx man. I to have seen the smoke emitting monkeys

[@REDNatsu]

hi tutorial , for create particles of ashes for fire ,please , thanks

[@ineslapaoturnob62]

I can't find the cache on the physics settings. Is there any other place where it could be? I don't know if I have a different version but I really can't find it

[@MeatMake]

Fire shows up in rendered view but not when I actually render the animation? Anybody having this problem?

[@MeatMake]

i'm such an idiot, I switched on "disable in renders" for the domain and that was the problem. it worky now 🤦

[@TheBrownGaming]

Ive done this multiple times and it still womt work right

[@NEEDCheese]

Cash money baybay!

[@kittydemonoverkill6434]

I for some reason can't get the smoke to show up at all. I've tried, like, 50 times, even doing exactly what you did step by step, but it's just not working.

[@MeatMake]

had the same problem, you had to bake the smoke first before viewing it in rendered mode

[@Avation_203]

come from down under "ceash" mate Go Aussie

[@ferdraun]

Fire appears in eevee but not in cycles, please help :)

[@gouliouannie2955]

and after creating how you can export it in order to use it in unity?????

[@CBaileyFilm]

I'm not really sure. You could try exporting the fire and smoke as a VDB file. Unity might be able to import that? You'll need to re-create the shader though in Unity.

[@TheBrownGaming]

Bro Im trynna just atleast get it done right, mine keeps not looking right and messing up

[@s0up_dev]

what about small scale sims in blender? I found out that it breaks and u need to adjust settings probably but some settings made blender crash so I tilted and started to learn houdini instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@CBaileyFilm]

In my experience, Blender struggles if the sim is too small. Houdini is a great choice if you want realism at any scale - nothing really compares to it.

[@samthesomniator]

Smoke is falling down in Blender 3.1. Have they changed the whole thing again?😅

[@RealGaryGibson]

Might be a gravity thing?

[@jimmyzeng998]

My simulation is really small and when I do shaders thingy in rendered EEVEE, it looks like dissappeared until I move around.

[@karolisputnikas7327]

Does somebody know how to export this fire simulation as a video clip in png format in order I could lately put this on whatever real life scene?

[@bmazbmaz2342]

thnx so much

[@MacoDeVinx]

Hello, is there any way for the domain to be customized? Meaning tilted and not necessarily straight up standing (Can't show cause comments with links are removed) I have re-baked without results and applied their transformations

[@osebenson]

Added fluids for my domain and object with same settings but my smoke was going downwards instead of upwards. I'm using Blender 2.92 not sure what's wrong any ideas?

[@joecash5988]

maybe the gravity

[@dannyconnolly2953]

When doing it, I get very little smoke, and it surrounds the flames rather than going above…suggestions?

[@srinivaspratapkumar5978]

What is the graphics card you use for blender?

[@northland547]

what version of blender do u use in this video ? because i have different

[@porkbaba]

Im having really bad lag in the animation and in blender interface in general during playback. Any idea how to fix this?

[@matthewcs490]

Why doesn’t the smoke look real? It should be flowing, not clumped like it is in the final render. How to solve that? It’s also waaayyy to black.

[@sicfxmusic]

Cache me outside 🔥

[@imdumped]

hi, how do you get suzane with its face once the fluid applied, mine is in wireframe and whatever I do with the viewport options it's still in wireframe

[@joecash5988]

i think you turned susanne to wireframe

[@momenabdallah5431]

can we add air to it?

[@gavinpenrose]

I like yr videos

[@alekskroskin6101]

Why I still got the fps count like to 5 fps when I even bake the simulation? I can't just fast in timeline, just like as if it is not baked

[@SteakusBakus]

I added quick particle smoke but it isn't emitting smoke even though I set it to inflow

[@SteakusBakus]

I'm using eevee and I'm trying to make a shrine with a floating orb that's on fire

[@thirteenoclock4106]

Does my object that's emitting fire have to be filled in?

[@Zerovi4]

why do i see domain in eevee render?

[@Lostachilles]

They say "cash" for cache because that's how it's pronounced in English. Yes, even in England. You can be the example for all Australians and help them pronounce it the right way.

[@UV-ANIMATION]

The fire shows in the render view but the smoke doesn't show. What am I doing wrong?