Blender Tutorial: How to Create Light Trails (Using Splines)

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Today we'll be creating a night road, full of traffic and light. Discover how to simulate the traffic trails effect in Blender.

[@tehlolzfactor]

Gleb you never fail to surprise me with your creativity and resourcefulness when making these images. Congrats and keep doing what you're doing.

[@JeraWolfe]

Gleb, I love your energy, your intonation and pronunciation, and your incredibly good mood that is infectious.

[@mariusoelsch]

awesome tutorial! short and simple! Perfect! 👍

[@Acbdc82]

Very badass..I can see multiple uses for this trick..amazing tutorial

[@PlasmasolutionsDe]

Hi Gleb, awesome as usual! I was stunned to see that the image at the start was the result of this quick tutorial... not bad guy, not bad! ;)

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Hey Thomas, I'm really glad that you like this format. I'm always a bit afraid whether it's too quick and scratching the surface. )

[@PlasmasolutionsDe]

Gleb Alexandrov The format is great! Especially when you reached a certain level, you don't want every bit to be explained...it's enough when you see the big steps.. I saw only one small hickup in there for the "normal" user: One has to activate the NodeWrangler addon to follow your "preview material tip" - maybe you add that as an annotation..

[@samuraiz198]

Would this still work with modern day blender 2.9?

[@pozdrower]

Nice work. Cool idea. Quick Guide. I really like what you're doing. I look forward to what comes next. cheers.

[@GlebAlexandrov]

I look forward to it too, honestly. And I don't know what comes next until I started doing it, hehe :)) Thanks, mate!

[@johnsonmartin8087]

Very cool effect Gleb :)

[@TimBuhrs]

I love it when people do things Procedurally!

[@pengyuzhang1179]

how you came up with this idea, and the way you using motion blur on the truck.... its just genius .thank you Gleb!!!

[@kevinfoster4951]

Love it!

[@cgcowboy]

Really great stuff once again, Gleb. You always seem to share some information right when my project could benefit by it. Thank you very much! By the way, your English is quite good.

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Thanks, Dale. ;)

[@cjkalandek996]

This would be GREAT for a Flash effect! So, THANK YOU!

[@KernelSanders1967]

Awesome... great stuff! Thanks for sharing Gleb!!

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Bill, you are welcome!

[@avananana]

How nice, finaly figured out how to make a decent comet in a night sky. :p

[@KorO2ooo]

Nice!

[@redphotoallan]

its possible to draw it from one point to another to make it like a trail of something moving???

[@diegocabrera88]

Costa Rica! Pura vida

[@trisetyadarmawan902]

Thanks

[@KROPAMAN1]

Thank you Glebushka )

[@davidmcsween]

Very nice Gleb, and a perfect duration for an experienced user. I think you could loose noobs a bit. Perhaps remind them where to go for a deeper explanation of basics that you are glossing over?

[@toddcmcintosh]

David McSween I like the fast speed, but I could probably take it 10% slower. I have to keep pausing it to check values he's using! : )

[@sonofhendrix]

i'm looking for how to create glowing trails/paths behind a moving object a bit like a shooting star,, this is interesting tho.

[@takealilpill347]

I was lost within the first two seconds.

[@waterwheel197]

Great tutorial as always, Gleb. Are you planing on doing something like an ocean scene? I have some ideas but, i'd really love your take on it.

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Ocean? Well, maybe :) Not in the next run, but some day, some day...

[@waterwheel197]

Gleb Alexandrov Great, there are actually other tutorials, i just want to see one with your style, (material and lighting wise), for inspiration.

[@sonetkpi5774]

Genius

[@9998thegrimeater]

what is the song at the end?

[@tidal5609]

your accent is weird. I LIKE IT!

[@Krxdy]

hi amazing tutorial as always but could you do an extended version of a tutorial and more detailed for people who have no great experience in blender?

[@bikinipuncake724]

It's best to go watch other tutorials and get to know Blender first.

[@shaikmohiddin1269]

Hey glen awesome tutorial but how do I use this in my night renders exporting to 3dsmax or photoshop can u make a tutorial on it

[@magedhussen6381]

crtl+shift click on a node donts isolate it in render.. any ideas ?

[@sonofham85]

I think you need to enable the node wrangler add-on for that

[@1DInciner]

Aww, e, we are filling Blendswap =)

[@jirkadolezal8127]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@vliff]

great advices in just 6 min! thanks! do you like mate tea, friend))

[@TheMrYakobo]

Hey Gleb! Is it possible to spoil where you got your gorgeous HDRIs? They always look great and I'm getting more and more jealous ;)

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Mr.Yakobo Hi! I often download it from here: www.hdrlabs.com/sibl/archive.html

[@TheMrYakobo]

Thanks man :)

[@justdiego4240]

Is it possible to do this in blender render?

[@timpater4343]

I think you can do sonething similar but the quality won't be as good as in circles.

[@martinn5626]

DiegoonG4mes Why? Blender Render is really garbage

[@TasX]

Who here subbed when Gleb was in his hundreds?

[@MohammadMorassafar]

Mega

[@bikinipuncake724]

I'm sure I'm not the only one that gets slightly turned on by Gleb's voice.

[@SylwesterKogowski]

I like this voice :D

[@sammynater4996]

4:23 bruh wot

[@Visuwyg]

This isn't a tutorial, it's a demonstration. I have no idea what happens at 2:42

[@Lanaur_]

Kaffeebohnson What exactly you don't undersand (why he's connecring the texture to Factory input maybe?)

[@thecharacterhero6025]

Russian subtitles, please!

[@sespider]

This would be even cooler if there was a way to animate it with music.

[@timmusic123]

Could you not just Animate the "randomnes"? There is a way to use music to Animate things but i dont know the Name of it

[@cyclessaga9743]

You can bake sound files to an f-curve. So you clould place a keyframe in a math node and bake the keyframe to fcurve. It will be hard to make that look good though!

[@timmusic123]

CyclesSaga This is exactly what I meant. but i tried it and i don´t find a way to make it. if i make a keyframe in the node editor, it does not show up in the f-curve editor

[@sespider]

Someone (don't remember who) found a way to animate array objects with music. But I could never get my head around it. It just seemed very complicated and I lost interest after many failed attempts Personally, I would think that there was a way to animate the textures (etc) along the curve via a driver. And animate the driver based on a audio's beat/wave. Of course, saying it is easy on paper. lol

[@joshh1341]

SEspider You could use other software to create an audio reaction animation and import it as an image texture and I know you can make a 'texture' force field in blender, so something similar may be possible...

[@vl5657]

Почему бы не делать версию на родном языке?

[@GlebAlexandrov]

Mainly because my blog caters to English-speaking audience.

[@vl5657]

Gleb Alexandrov жалко, что столь интересные советы, которыми вы делитесь и другие авторы, существуют только в английском переводе. Конкретно мне без разницы в каком языке поглощать информацию, но ведь есть много русскоговорящих, кто не знает английский, но очень желает узнать что-то новое в этом замечательном редакторе. Тем более, что, по-моему, вы единственный соотечественник, кто ведет канал в таком формате. Простое пожелание вашего зрителя. Будет интересно послушать вас на Великом-Могучем :)

[@Ubi_Concordia_Ibi_Victoria]

Can you go slower explaining please?

[@Mqpz.]

дислайк не глядя

[@filipepinho3319]

too fast for a tutorial...

[@martinn5626]

Filipe Pinho Just because you're a beginner it doesn't mean it is bad

[@yourpersonalspammer]

great vids but i can barely understand what this clown is saying..