How to Electricity in Blender 2.9

[@DangerDurians]

That’s so smart to use ivy gen

[@vantablacknl]

for those making 3d loops animating an empty should always one on 0-360 (or 720 or any full circle value) and for interesting variety you can set empty to follow a path of a bezier circle and animating an offset to 0-100 for an endless loop Also thanks for the tutorial this is so much easier than other lightning tuts

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Very handy tips! Thanks for watching!

[@ThePolygonPusher]

I always pick up something new from your videos!

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

what did you pick up in this one?

[@ThePolygonPusher]

Animating the multiple shape keys procedurally is something that's going into my toolbox

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Nice, I abuse that one too. Extra tip, instead of using a noise modifier, you could 'bake sound to fcurves' basically generating your curves from a soundfile to animate your effect to some sound

[@woody7761]

each time i thought it was done, you kept improving it lol. amazing video, helped a lot thx.

[@Gazing-09]

Damn... You are my go to channel when it comes to FX!

[@john-El]

Briliant use of the tools in blender! Thanks for the tutorial!!

[@AlexisRivera3D]

Thank you, I'll be using your technique in my LEGO Trailer

[@jenovaizquierdo]

Dude are you for real, That intro was awesome man. Your tutorial are really good man.. keep up with your awesome tutorial man. 👍🏼

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Thanks, will do!

[@jenovaizquierdo]

@@RIOTGEAR3D is a pleasure. Thank you for responding back. You will man.

[@LittleFellaDynamics]

This looks absolutely amazing! Very much looking forward to learning the technique and applying it to my project... perfect 👌💯👀🎥😎🌟

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Id love to see it when its done.

[@LittleFellaDynamics]

@@RIOTGEAR3D Do you have an account on Motion Array as I have a subscription on there and the later models of the scarecrows etc. were excellent!

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

I don't have an account there unfortunately

[@crazydescent]

Great effect..using the Ivy generator is brilliant

[@LaurenceSouthDrumsUK]

I am stuck at 6:30 on this video. When trying to move the ivy it stretches the object and does not allow me to move it the way you are, any ideas?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

you can use the 3d cursor as a pivot point so you can rotate the branches from a specific point

[@jordan4longshaw]

Deserves more views, thank you!

[@waltervolbers3443]

thanks for sharing, so it is much better to control, had tried with geometrynodes but it gets too messy, your approach gives more control how it should look.

[@LaurenceSouthDrumsUK]

i've made it to 10:00 - my lightning is moving way too fast, I have tried to increase the scale for all of the shape keys but it is not working, help

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

hey did you manage to solve this? what is the specific motion that is moving too fast?

[@powersprouter]

LOVE it, thank you. I'm gonna do this, this is great.

[@ZiexVFX]

yo help me i'm tryna figure out how you got the ivy generator to just appear there im trying to add it to text is that possible?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

You may have to convert your text to a mesh before you can do that

[@ZiexVFX]

@@RIOTGEAR3D oh yeah I figured it

[@getfanmedia]

great, thank you for sharing

[@robertsontirado4478]

This is amazing, but I have to much to do so I bought your FX pack which is just amazing.

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Glad you love it, I'll try and pack that kind of usefulness into future products

[@vanshthakur7060]

im not able to find the generator option in the animation area...when i open animation the graph editor doesn't open but i have to manually bring it through the drop sheet drop bar which im guessing is messing things up?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

You need to have a key frames set on the value you are animating, the options will then appear

[@rixochixo]

@6:16 How do you select the individual ray of lightning? tried ALT-SHIFT, but that didn't work. This would help tremedously. Thank you!

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Just hover on one vertex and hit L, it will select all vertices connected to it.

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Or you could select one vertex and hit ctrl+L

[@Zhincore]

2005 called, they want their youtube intro back xD useful video tho! and really impressive transitions! Thank you

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

I wasn't old enough to be on KZbin back then, I'm afraid history will have to repeat itself 😂

[@itisohm]

Been waiting for this!

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

looks like you're charged up!

[@itisohm]

@@RIOTGEAR3D oh yeah for sure!

[@itisohm]

@@RIOTGEAR3D also I made a car morphing VFX shot on my Channel following your tutorial if you could say something about it it would be great 😄

[@oditty]

Hey at 6:21 what are the key binds or buttons you use to save them into the keys? Also kind of new to blender so how would I select each branch like you did?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

To save the shapes into the keys, in object mode create the shape key then enter into edit mode and make the changes you wish, when you go back into object mode the changes will be recorded into the shapekey. Remember the first shapekey records the default shape. To select the whole length of a branch, you can select one vertex and hit ctrl+L, or just hover over your preferred branch and hit L to select all linked vertices.

[@oditty]

@@RIOTGEAR3D you are amazing thank you so much I love your videos and tutorials! 👍🏻

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

@@oditty thank you, I'm going to keep them coming

[@pyricpictures4527]

This is a bit of a weird question but 6:17 how do you rotate the branches and how did you select the vertices of the branch without selecting the whole thing

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Hover over your preferred branch and hit L to select all vertices linked to the target vertex.

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

To rotate them, I set the pivot point to 3d cursor and place the 3d cursor at the point of branching, I can then rotate the selected branch around the root of the branch... I hope that made sense

[@pyricpictures4527]

@@RIOTGEAR3D I think I understand what you mean by that and thank you

[@caturindrasukmana7673]

Thank you. Love this tutorial!!

[@enkifury1838]

Thank you

[@BakerDerekj]

this is so awesome!

[@sacredoath3167]

amazing, love this

[@puppershupper]

Nice vid. really helpful

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

happy to help

[@bananaboy1100]

Is there any possible way to do both the growing animation you can get with curve AND the displacement modifier from the mesh?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

I'm still trying to figure out the best way to get the best of both worlds, but unfortunately it's a tradeoff game

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

This could be fixed if somehow curves were updated to support the displacement modifier!

[@bananaboy1100]

I can’t seem to find a way to export these bolts out of blender while keeping the glow / emission / bloom. I try rendering a PNG sequence with a transparent background and the glow is gone. If I have a solid background, the glow is back. Not sure why this is.

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Could be the glow is there but just not very visible on a transparent background. Try adding a solid background in compositing

[@bananaboy1100]

@@RIOTGEAR3D My workaround since I made my post is this: The Eevee engine in blender doesn't render emissions on transparent background. Why? I don't know. Cycles maybe would work but I didn't see anything that says it would. So I rendered with a black background and in AE blended it with "screen". If I pre-composed the bolt onto the footage in blender, this method works pretty well If I'm not 3D tracking (which is a whole other can of worms I'm still figuring out.) Anyways that's where I'm at with that.

[@kora2511]

Brilliant

[@shanabenjamin8945]

Brilliant man! Which country are you from? Asking as i am looking for 1 on 1 lessons and we may be in the same time zone. I am in South Africa. Hit me up if you can do real time lessons and let me know your fee.

[@moseskamotho4371]

i love this

[@geoffreykinuthia5539]

noma sana brathe

[@angryengineer9798]

Can you help me or send your blender's link

[@temporblx2834]

why did u timelapse this its so hard to see what your doing

[@abhishekm4434]

where can i get the lightning sound effect?

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

those used here were sounds sampled from a falling tree, but a good place to get sounds is splice.

[@angryengineer9798]

I can,t find ivy generator in my blender 2.93

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

You'll have to enable it in the addons

[@angryengineer9798]

@@RIOTGEAR3D how I can solve this problem

[@angryengineer9798]

I am totally beginner in blender plz help me

[@angryengineer9798]

There is no option of 'create'

[@angryengineer9798]

Thanks for helping me . Spending lots of time in blender then finally I found that option

[@pfeffermartin642]

sry i dont understand what addon to enable - thx

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Ivy generator

[@pfeffermartin642]

@@RIOTGEAR3D thx

[@naveensuresh546]

i am not able to get that add-on

[@RIOTGEAR3D]

Just search 'ivy generator' it should be available in all builds, even experimental ones. What version are you using?

[@SStupendous]

I would like if you went a little slower, you're going very fast. I'm not new to blender, I am to this particular field, however.

[@MintyMeta]

I think his speed was perfect, the cool thing about youtube is you can always rewind if you miss something.

[@SStupendous]

@@MintyMeta I still understood the video, and had high-level results, it's just the speed, man.