Blender Tutorial - How to Create Glowing Smoke in Eevee

[@jessicalawheed6735]

The "RIP" for the cube deletion made me laugh so hard my husband had to come upstairs and see what was going on. Made my day, thanks.

[@supremebeme]

Blender 2.9 - To Show "Bake" button, click on domain, go to cache in physics tab, change TYPE from replay or modular to ALL. Then the Bake All button will show.

[@mommysezno]

You're my hero- I was so lost

[@10arunesh]

Thanks for this. I actually was wondering where the button is.

[@northerain]

MVP

[@siddhantrane1227]

You need to connect the density attribute into the emission strength of the principled volume shader and the factor of the color ramp which you plug into the emission color of the principled volume node. so it's like: Attribute (density) -> emission strength (principled volume) Attribute (density) -> factor (color ramp) -> emission color (principled volume)

[@peterkeis1638]

Instead of a texture you can have a particle system emitting the smoke. The the particles can change the emitting color over their lifetime. You can calculate the age of a specific particle by dividing the age through the lifetime and feed this into a coloramp.

[@MarkandSandieInMotion]

make a vid of this please

[@yohannesdewander798]

This video is great! Following it now in 2022, they must have changed something about the object constraint since 2019, because my sphere won't stop at the end of the bezier curve. Any sollutions?

[@MarceloPaniza]

Thanks for this. Great info and the "Eevee doesn't" tip saved the day. Cheers.

[@leonardoromero4709]

Im not sure, but i guess the way to make the smoke color change depending of his lifetime is using the density color value as factor in the color ramp that is connected in the color input of the principle volume shader.

[@buzzkillbuddy4532]

Very helpful, helped me fixed the issue! May I add, you can also hook up a Vector Math node in between the "density" attribute and the gradient texture node followed by a multiplication node set to around 20 or so. I got a good result with those settings.

[@timhud7538]

guys, can you screen the tree of nodes, for beginners?)))

[@timhud7538]

@@buzzkillbuddy4532 guys, can you screen the tree of nodes, for beginners?))

[@Warblade1989]

As awesome as this video is, do you have an up to date version for blender 2.82? The physics settings have been vastly changed since this vids creation.

[@2012Pictures]

Great tutorial but I'm having a little trouble. I'm using 2.92 and when I connect the gradient texture node to the color ramp node in shading, the smoke completely disappears. Anyone know a work around for that? Much appreciated! Edit: It's doing the same thing in the official Blender as well.

[@WesMartin]

That's happening to me too :// love those bugs EDIT: If you look at Siddhant Rane's comment, his fixed mine! It has to do with making sure another attribute node (whether its for the density or smoke) is connected to the gradient texture, then to the color ramp, then to the color. (I connected the attributes vector to the gradient's vector.) Hope this helps!

[@rhymerubayet1999]

Just found this channel, I am beginner and I am loving the tutorials. Please keep it coming, your tutorials are really easy to understand and follow too.

[@shanongonton1004]

with the recent version of blender i can't find the "high resolution" menu, do you know where can i find it ? great video thanks :)

[@Zamten]

Blender beginner here and I just want to say thanks for this tutorial. Not just for the guidelines on creating the animation but for the option to hide the shape at 10:57. I have been trying for the past couple days trying to figure out how to get rid of the thing on other projects i am doing and no matter what i searched on google, none showed me this :(

[@purplezer0196]

the cube joke at the beginning really caught me off guard. That was pretty funny lol.

[@duke6949]

You could change specific colour if you want by adding keyframes for position of both colors in color ramp and then change its position at time you want to change color and add another keyframe

[@shaundelp9778]

I think there is a particle info shader node with an "age" output, plug to plug into you color ramp.

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

I already tried that but I think that only works with particles and not smoke.

[@diamondabck645]

Blender Made Easy it doesn’t work in evee yet unfortunately, but its awesome in cycles

[@Ramp10er]

Try animating the mapping node for the direction of the gradient smoke... Or use Gradient as a factor plus animate color ramp... Or try animating vector curves...

[@DavidS-mi8nh]

yay finally a smoke tutorial that doesn't murder my computer

[@scrayzor4835]

If you want to bake it with noise (the new HIGH RES in Blkender !!!) , you have to make a check at cache "is resumable" first and then bake the noise after baking data.

[@ZachFBStudios]

always do your smoke sims in eevee and composite into cycles renders later nice

[@arjunvenugopal4763]

You just brought a great tutorial under 12 mins. Thank you. Subscribed.

[@Milan23_]

Please do this tutorial again for Blender 3.0 and above, subscribed amazing content!

[@SuperSubCon]

yes please @BlenderMadeEasy

[@roideus]

Can you make a version of this for 2.82? i had to use 2.81 because I couldn't get the smoke to work in 2.82. Had a lot of problems after baking it and the performance in the viewport was horrible.

[@fiveoneecho]

You should be able to use object coordinates from another object for the gradient texture and then move that reference object through space to control the smoke color.

[@찌누-c7n]

Everybody is influencing everyone, wow wonderful.

[@kamranrizvi4707]

Fantastic tutorial. Please advise, if you have a tutorial how to render, to convert into MP4 or PNG sequence. I will be very grateful

[@romirromero2252]

Why i dont have the SMOKE settings under smoke domain>physics 😔 Cant fix the settings of my smoke. Ended up nothing 😔

[@PonteRyuurui]

extremely fucking helpful,cheers, i was going nuts trying to figure out how to add color and emission to the god damn smoke. thats a sub from me!

[@gorkskoal9315]

If someone is watching this with 3.0 release. Their's a bug in 2.9x that causes it to eat a ton of ram then segfault. and a hard one. like fairly large segfault file large. the 3.x branch might fix that. Just a FYI

[@Akaija]

Wonderful tutorial! Though there was one thing that took me several hours to figure out, as I couldn't get the smoke to 'glow'. In the attribute node I mentioned 'Density'. But you better don't do this: Type 'density' instead (no capital D).

[@kumimochi]

My new fave blender sensei

[@buddelexperte1350]

The "High REs" Settings don´t appear on my screen, any help?

[@nybsaxer]

In newer versions it's called noise. Smoke Domain -> Physics Properties -> Gas -> Noise

[@buddelexperte1350]

@@nybsaxer thx

[@CG_Pigeon]

Emission works fine in eevee now :D thx!

[@CapsVODS]

when i create quickm smoke, here is a massive sphere of it that covers more than my object. And i have scale applied to both object and volume box

[@anthonyschilling7132]

Same here

[@AlceaRose]

Hello, I've been trying to implement that on Blender 4.2, but it doesn't seem to work properly : I end up with a static uniform smoke in the entire smoke domain, instead of having a ball properly emitting smoke.... Do you know how to fix this ?

[@starlessfr0sty853]

can`t find "high resolution". Where is that located in blender 2.82-2.83?

[@cbrosif]

from what i know now, they renamed or removed it or smth, so i found that its pretty much the same if you turn on noise with the wavelet option in the settings

[@HassanSiddique777]

Your tutorials are very exciting, easy to understand and awesome as well :)

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

Happy to hear that! Thx!

[@kashiraplay2573]

I have a problem I'm using blender 2.92 and the part of 3:12 my "Enable physics for:" i dont see the "smoke" it always select in "fluid" so i dont know how to follow the next step : ( This is my first time using blender so i dont have any idea

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

This tutorial was in an older version of Blender. It use to be smoke and fluid were separate physics but now they are the same. You need to select the fluid type and make sure it's set to gas. I recommend following one of my mantaflow tutorials because it will be easier.

[@КонстантинВоробьёв-у6ъ]

In Cycles its possible to drive smoke color with smoke density attribute trough math and color-ramp nodes. Didn't tried it with Eevee.

[@techtalkwithsanuga9081]

ye i did cycles cuz its easier

[@supremebeme]

add a mapping node to the gradient texture and rotate Y * 90 degrees

[@gorkskoal9315]

Umm er Evee Does do light with bloom... or did you meen something else?

[@userxbw]

Proabley got a do a half and half to get smoke to change colors mid stream. or maybe key frame it to swap colors mid stream.. ????

[@rededwards3479]

Great Vid....You should do a video on multiple smoke emitters with each having unique settings.

[@Tech_Crafter_HD]

I had a problem with the render result because it is always blurry and I don't know why because it's not the DoF or the samples

[@oojiflip]

How do you do the high res in 2.82

[@ivanbradic]

I have the same problem?!

[@ivanbradic]

I found a solution!! 1. Select Smoke Domain 2 .Go to physics properties 3. click free Data (unbake) 4. check Adaptive Domain 5. On the Add resolution add a number greater than 50 and the bake 6. render and there you go

[@oojiflip]

@@ivanbradic OK, yeah, that should word, but it isn't doing what you'd expect. Instead of increasing the resolution to make the smoke itself higher res, it's making the smoke take up more volume, to make it appear as if it's a lot larger than it is. What you need to do is go to volumes, and then set the pixels down to 2px from 8px

[@ivanbradic]

@@oojiflip well it works for me idk how. Sorry it didn't work for you :c

[@moravianlion3108]

Don't know why, but my smoke lasts only for about 20 frames, then it quickly dissolves. I can't figure out where to change it. It's baked, frames are ending at 250 in both cache settings and timeline, but wtf is going on here? The only difference I made is my curve is around 3 times longer. Any idea what went wrong here?

[@evertonsouzasilv]

Me too

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

Click on the smoke domain (The giant box) and go to its physics properties. Go down and select cache. Under cache you should find frame start and end. Leave frame start at one but make the frame end the frame that your animation ends at.

[@ekbergpeter6987]

Great Tutorial. I really appreciate that you show in between what happens and not wait til the end. I have two questions. Is it possible to freeze the animation for use in a scene Where I want some smoke? Can you explain the baking thing? Thank You, really cool.

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

Are you asking on how to freeze the smoke in place and then resume it at a later frame? If so that is a great tutorial idea and I will work on that. What do you mean by baking thing?

[@ekbergpeter6987]

@@BlenderMadeEasy Not at a later frame, but in a scene. So if I think the smoke is perfect at frame 150 and I want to use that smoke in different places in my scene. If it's possible to apply all smoke modifiers and then use that smoke as an object. Same way as creating cloth effect. I have to create an animation to get the cloth as I want then I can apply the modifier and can then use the cloth as I want. I see a lot of use for this if possible with smoke. Create fog, cigarette smoke etc. The baking thing. What is happening when you are "baking" the animation?

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

Baking stores the smoke simulation data. Basically it makes it so you can close the project without losing the simulation, move to any frame or send the project to a render farm. I see what you mean now with freezing the smoke. I have figured out how to do that and I will create a tutorial on this very soon.

[@persadastudio]

Can wd import this to after effect? How? Thank

[@scorse4197]

for making the smoke change color as it rises, why not ctrl + click and change the orientation of the coloramp to go upwards?

[@nina-1827]

atm the starting point and end point are set at the 1st and 100th frame.. as i am new to blender i was wondering where the setting was to change the starting frame if the smoke shouldnt appear right at the beginning of the scene?

[@houndedblue]

baking not show in cache blender 4?

[@DavidS-mi8nh]

10:10 heat attribute?

[@divyamjha49]

The Noise settings cease the smoke effect when I apply them. After I added the gradient colour, it renders the smoke gray. Makes no sense. Why is that happening?

[@adeysh6354]

Because I did every step you did in this vid but still not working , the sphere moves over the curve but no smoke effect, i did bake it and then tried it again and i got the smoke after baking.

[@U.O.S]

How to make color shooting star coloring in the edges and the tail white in the middle

[@sheraizepillay128]

Great tutorial, very simple to follow for a beginner like myself! I'm having one problem though, when I add the quick smoke effect, and I try to rescale the domain, the smoke also rescales and if I move the domain, the smoke moves as well. Is there any way I can fix this?

[@surenmayurov4104]

Please remind about clicking like button, coz I always forget doing it. Thanks for the tut!

[@Artoff_xDen]

exactly what i was looking for!

[@grits_4336]

Can anyone help me out? My smoke isn't going with the sphere When I added quick smoke it just smoked once and it was quite big. And then it didn't follow the sphere.

[@tbstobeseen206]

Same here(

[@RandomUser00025]

Your smoke look very dissipated end light, how could I get a big plain and dense smoke trails, which make sort of like bean shapes (you can see this on multiple smoke Sims on blender don't know If you see what I'm talking about) I really need to achieve this effect

[@paul-thys]

I dont have the high res smoke option

[@amitshibu4478]

Paul-Thys 2.83?

[@paul-thys]

Amit Shibu yes

[@BradCaldwellAuburn]

How about in cycles?

[@MickeyBTBell]

Very cool! Thank you for sharing!

[@SubhashChandraGupta2021]

Just wanted this tutorial thanks :)

[@thehalohomies]

does it work with Cycles? If not, is there any other way to do it that works with Cycles?

[@derlinjesustaverasperalta1724]

I have a error I don't why my domain is glowing instead of the smoke (is like a big glowing box)

[@derlinjesustaverasperalta1724]

Ok nvm I didn't put multiple on the Match node

[@evertonsouzasilv]

Me too. Big Glowing Box. Multiple not help.

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

Make sure the domain type in the physics properties is set to domain. If it is not it will be a big glowing box.

[@diosatriadarma9882]

how to bake on blender 2.83.1 ???? pleasee help... my project is different of ur project

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

Click on the smoke domain (The giant box) and go to its physics properties. Go down and select cache. Under cache you should see that the cache type is either modular or replay. Change the type to final and a bake all option should appear. Click bake all and wait for it to bake. When it ends you should find that smoke appears when you play the animation from the begging. And also make sure that you are in the front facing view by pressing one on the number pad on your keyboard. I hope this helps.

[@supremebeme]

@@notadhdeveloper4994 thanks! worked for blender 2.9

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

@@supremebeme no problem 👍🏻

[@adeysh6354]

Hi , i think you didn’t mention the bake part in the first try of smoke ... watch again 3:00

[@DaNil-ws8bc]

How to make this animation seamless?

[@MissFazzington]

When i add quick smoke smoke didn't appear

[@nameseven]

I love these!

[@mountainflash2369]

Try key framing colour to get different colours

[@Tech_Crafter_HD]

Mhh nope it changes everything and not only the emitter

[@bigstanky9633]

Use key frames on the emission color

[@BuzzKirill3D]

Thanks, very helpful

[@校长老]

yes! This is what I expect to see！！ thank you ！！

[@kingfreefire0961]

rip cube. prayers for our friend

[@nonfider9910]

My bizer curve doesn’t have this arrows wtf

[@daedalus3176]

Im late, but is there a way to slow down the curve at specific moments or to make it speed up?

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

probably with key frames in the animation menu. I am not sure though.

[@oojiflip]

How do you have sharp smoke in Eevee? Every time I work with smoke/explosions in Eevee, it's super blurry

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

Make sure the volumet tile size is set to 2 px. It's located in the render tab under Volumetrics. This will help make the smoke look sharp.

[@oojiflip]

@@BlenderMadeEasy OMG thanks! I could never figure it out!

[@Kate-Tea]

I’m sure you can make eevee emit actual light from the smoke or other objects by baking the lighting with... I forgot the name but it’s there I swear!

[@gorkskoal9315]

bloom?

[@alirezasaliani5165]

I don't know why my smoke doesn't follow the object like yours does. Any help?

[@buddelexperte1350]

first click on the sphere and THEN click object > Quick Effects > etc

[@evaalvarado6467]

Is there a way to move where the animated path starts and ends in the timeline?

[@tdnr]

I dunno

[@notadhdeveloper4994]

click on the smoke domain and go to physics properties. Under the cache tab there are boxes for frame start and frame end.

[@Xstatic1975]

Nice effect. Not getting the same results unfortunately. I used the exact same settings but when I render there is much more smoke than in this video. EDIT: never mind..... my sphere was moving slower because my bezier curve had a higher frame setting than the rest of the animation :'-)

[@voxboxc]

hey nice tutorial but i hv a slight problem. why do my smoke simulation seems of of focus and blurry. any idea?

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

If you are using Eevee try setting the volumetric tile size to 2 pixels in the render tab. The default is 8 which makes it a little blurry.

[@voxboxc]

@@BlenderMadeEasy still slightly blurry but maybe eevee is just not that good at rendering smokes? maybe. any other settings i could tinker around to get better smokes?

[@Sam-oi8uh]

What ever I do my smoke dose not get any color

[@flixy_gameon4880]

SAME please helpp!! )=

[@beimanonestar]

I think you are trying to set material to the sphere. Set up the material to domain

[@Wikkedfit]

Blender 2.9 no longer has the High resolution option available

[@flixy_gameon4880]

PLEASE help me )=. I see only grey smoke in rendered view but i think i have done everything the same as you did )= (is there any option i have to select or somthing?) please help ):

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

Check the material again. You probably have something not plugged in.

[@UCG818]

@@BlenderMadeEasy I'm also having the same problem too. I'm checking the material and I'm not sure when I'm missing.

[@hw12333]

When I hit play after I have put in the smoke container no smoke shows up? I have a good computer not sure why this is happening

[@heyt3ch]

same

[@heitoor]

@@heyt3ch same

[@TheKungfum]

when I scale and move my smoke domain, the quick smoke effect scales and moves also. I know this is probably something simple, but I'm a newbie. Any help appreciated. V 2.9

[@lawyerdawg]

2.9 Is a whole new version. I recommend using v2.82 to get used to the "Flow" of blender. But this tutorial may be outdated for your version of Blender.

[@DimitriSafarikas]

It's because everytime you hit the "play" button, Blender is saving the information (called "cache"), so when you start scaling it, it keeps the exact same simulation but scales it accordingly. One way to reset the simulation so it uses the new scale, is to go inside the "smoke domain" options and change the number of "resolution divisions" (you can revert back to your previous number afterwards, you simply need to change it once) Hope it helps :)

[@TheKungfum]

@@DimitriSafarikas thank you. I will try that next time. Good to know

[@stewiebox]

you can make it go on forever by selecting the two ends and press F, this will fill the two ends

[@stewiebox]

just to be clear here I am using version 2.9

[@musikraze3020]

Thanks sir, i Subscribed

[@mynameisnobody1386]

Im not sure what im doing wrong, but I dont see any smoke. I keep going back in the video but I followed the steps up to this point exactly, I paused the video so many times, i wore out my space bar. LOL. Using version 2.82 windows 10 pro 1TB M.2 970 Evo SSD 64GB Dominator RAM ASUS RTX 2080 SUPER OC ALL water cooled I7 CPU (i forget the model but its a 7th gen.) also water cooled and OC. MSI x99a SLI Plus MOBO I can not figure it out for the life of me. PLEASE HELP.

[@mynameisnobody1386]

I will like what I have in a youtube video in an edit. EDIT- kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4HcnZiigK6Whdk Ignore the other stuff- I created an animation and before completing it I want to get the smoke to circle the text.

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

You have to bake in the data for the smoke to work. Blender 2.82 changed a lot of things about the fire simulation. Go watch my video on Mantaflow Fire Simulation to see how it works.

[@mynameisnobody1386]

@@BlenderMadeEasy Thanks for the help but I think im WAYYY too big a noob. i still can not get it to work. Bummer though. :(

[@fertuffo1187]

How much time does it take for the render to complete?

[@BlenderMadeEasy]

It took about 10 minutes to render. Eevee can render smoke extremely fast.

[@fertuffo1187]

Blender Made Easy thanks

[@Aicha.Gabani]

Hello. Thank you for all your videos. Please we want tuto about dynamic paint multiple colors.

[@CElectriX]

Really Amazing!

[@williamgoodwin5145]

My laptop is running kinda slow but the whole domain seems to fill with smoke when I render . Any ideas ??

[@voxboxc]

did you check the node at the material output? it should supposedly be connected to the volume input of the material output

[@aluckyshot]

Thanks, might be able to make a short intro for my videos with something like that. I am subbed 😉

[@19Lillith]

I can't see any smoke, I did everything in the tutorial. Is this because I'm using a newer version of blender?

[@voxboxc]

try to check these: -bake the cache -bake the noise(if you tick it) -check the shader for the domain, not the sphere. make sure to set at the material output to be volume and not surface.

[@JamesZickmantel]

Set cache Type to Replay until you bake it later.

[@_sidrs]

What are your pc specs ???? My too starts sayin 'not responding' when I render somethin with eevee

[@nishantkumar9570]

Awesome Thank you very much.

[@Mads-hl8xj]

Poor cube 💖💖💖 Rip