How to Make Tire Dust in Blender 3.0

A detailed tutorial on how to make dust emit from vehicle tires in Blender 3.0
The vehicle is part of the amazing Transportation add on.
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The Mitsubishi Lancer and all associated logos / emblems are the property of Mitsubishi Motors.
If you have any questions, please let me know. I hope this tutorial helps you make better dust / smoke in your vehicle animations.
Keep up the great work in whatever you are doing. Success is always right around the next corner. If you never give up, you will get there.

[@myyoutubechannnel4]

i love internet. there is always a guy who gave his effort at exactly what you need now. thank you, i almost gave up on blender smoke sim, until i found your vid

[@Smooth_Shading]

That's fantastic my friend. I'm very happy to have helped anyone and contributed something in a meaningful way. Thank you for taking the time to leave such a nice comment. Hope your animation comes out great!

[@brandonmeyer3579]

He makes such a difficult thing very user friendly! What a nice and inspiring person!

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you so much for these very nice compliments and for taking the time to comment on so many videos. Good luck in all your endeavors my friend!

[@ExploringUndercover]

I love how in depth you explain things. The thing I find with other tutorials they tell you what buttons to press so your simulation looks like theirs. But with this you're explaining what things do, and why you would do it, which is great because that makes this so applicable to any smoke simulation. Thank you for a brilliant tutorial!

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks for taking the time to leave this nice feedback my friend! It's funny that you mentioned this because I'm working on a new tutorial, similar to this one, but specific to a car doing a burnout on pavement and I thought, "I'm not going to ramble so much on this new one. I think it needs to be more concise and to the point." So, it was really nice to hear you say that you appreciated the in-depth explanations. I had just been second guessing this style of tutorial the day before you left this comment. The new one will still be an improvement over this one but I won't shy away from explaining the "why" behind the settings. Thanks again brother and keep up the great work on your channel. I like what you guys are doing!

[@swaemick]

Man, this is one the best tutorials I've ever seen,

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks for saying that, man. I appreciate it. I think this tutorial could've been a little more concise but overall, it came out pretty good.

[@cristiansuretelu7159]

Thanks for very detailing Tutuorial. THE BEST!!!

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@cristiansuretelu7159 Thanks for the comment. I hope it helps and your project comes out great!

[@WTBLNT]

Awesome tutorial, thank you man! I am working on a big project now and thanks to you, I can add dust simulation to it. I will put the link once everything is finished in it.

[@Smooth_Shading]

That's terrific my friend! Thank you for the positive feedback. I'm glad I could help. I hope the rest of your project comes together nicely. I look forward to seeing it. I'm sure you will do great things.

[@mesarena5408]

Thanks alot......this video was super helpful..........

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad it helped you. Thanks for leaving a comment. I hope whatever you're working on turns out great.

[@neonai9213]

man you've a got a voice of a super villain, it's so pleasant to hear

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks for the compliment and taking the time to comment. **Now it's time to take over the world. Mwuh-ha-ha!**

[@brandonmeyer3579]

This guy REALLY KNOWS WHAT TO DO! Thank you so much!

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad you found it to be helpful. I really appreciate you checking out all my stuff recently and I'm glad you discovered my channel. Thank you!

[@triumph3D]

Thanks alot, saying this was really helpful is an understatement

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you, my friend, for taking the time to comment. I'm glad you found it to be helpful. I hope whatever you are working on comes out great. Have a nice day!

Just wanted to say: Thank You. Very goo and detailed video. i was having a little problem on making more like a smoke tire and found this, so thank you

[@Smooth_Shading]

You're quite welcome my friend. I appreciate the compliment and feedback. Thank you for taking the time to comment. I hope the animation you're working on comes out great and makes you happy! I'm working on a new animation of a car doing a burnout in a parking lot. I'll follow that up with another tutorial as well. It's very similar to the process of doing the dust in this video but if you're looking for more information on something more specific to tire smoke you might find it to be more helpful. Have a great start to the weekend brother!

@@Smooth_Shading I will watch when the video is out, can't wait. really appreciate the tutorial, it's very good. Have a great weekend you too!

[@echoesofelysium18]

Nice one bro. Been waiting for this kind of tutorials

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you. I'm glad I could offer this. I hope you find it helpful.

[@legacylee]

I totally understand your pain when you say the words "bake", I have to bake myself while i'm waiting for the bake because it can get sooooo excruciating lol

[@Smooth_Shading]

Good way to pass the time!

[@MRUStudios]

This is awesome! Thanks so much for sharing. I'm looking forward to watching the full video. Fantastic content my friend! 😃

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks brother! I appreciate your comment. I hope your work on Episode 2 is going well.

[@MRUStudios]

@@Smooth_Shading Absolutely! Things have been going well so far, thanks to your awesome tutorial videos I'll be able to make things even better as time goes on. Your skill and knowledge of Blender, and 3D art in general, is next level. I believe I speak not only for myself, but the rest of your viewers when I say we really appreciate what you do. This is also my attempt to beg for you to be my mentor! 😆 Seriously though I'm really looking forward to your future content and I wish you massive success not only in the growth of your channel but with everything you do in life my friend. 🙂

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@MRUStudios Thanks brother. I'll help in any way I can. If I catch one of your live streams again, I'll pop in for as long as possible and offer any insight I might have. You rock!

[@MRUStudios]

@@Smooth_Shading You're the best my friend! I really appreciate it! I've learned so much already from this video. It's fantastic! I hope you have a great rest of your week! 😃

[@IronLordFitness]

Thanks for the tut and the message at the end!

[@Smooth_Shading]

You're welcome brother! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment! Whatever you're working on, I hope it comes out great.

[@MJ12GRAVITON]

A very awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad it was helpful. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment. I hope your project turns out well!

[@mtscott44]

This was great, thanks dude.

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for commenting, brother.

[@Desertsage]

Great Tutorial, nice and detailed ! I'm going to have to use this in a future project. Keep it up !

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks for the feedback brother! I hope it helps at some point. I'm always interested in what you're doing next and it'll be cool to see something in the future that employs this technique. Whatever you do though, I'm sure it'll be great.

[@Desertsage]

@@Smooth_Shading I'll be sure to tag you in it if I do ! Because sims are not my friend haha

[@bilalbulbulia3623]

What a superb video and explanation..Ideally if you can make a short video and summarize it

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you so much, I appreciate that. I agree, a shorter video summarizing the key points of the process would be great for people who don't need the longer, detailed version. I've thought about doing that. One of these days, I probably will. I'm glad you checked out the tutorial and took the time to leave a compliment and feedback. Whatever you're working on, I hope it comes out great!

[@Riley_Christian]

I guess I learned parenting flow emitters to armature bones makes weird things happen lol. Or at least it seems to be the case. Did what you did and its working thanks :)

[@Smooth_Shading]

Nice! I'm glad I could help and it worked out for you. I parented a physics force to a domain once and things got really wonky. Thanks for the comment. Keep up the great work!

[@sezerturan4371]

best tutorial! thanks a lot!

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad it helped. Thanks for the comment!

[@sezerturan4371]

@@Smooth_Shading no problem! i laugh at 23:25 when u said "whats going on there" 😂😂 cuz i got same reaction when i try first the simulation before i watch this part hehe

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@sezerturan4371 That's funny. I'm glad it was helpful and it made you laugh too! I hope what you're working on turns out great!

[@sezerturan4371]

@@Smooth_Shading bro i was looking for this tuts for days! until i found yours cuz i have space car animation into desert and it cames in the right moment. Thanks for your time! without your tuts ill not able to do it

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@sezerturan4371 It's really good to know that something I put out there actually helped someone. And I really appreciate you sharing info about your project with me. Keep up the great work, my friend!

[@legacylee]

Exactly what I needed sir, thank you, thank you very much! Liked and Subbed for sure!

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you for checking it out and commenting! I'm glad I could help, brother.

[@mrak1133]

Thank for doing tutorial ❤️

[@Smooth_Shading]

You're welcome man! I hope it helps in some way. I'll do more vehicle animation tutorials in the future to cover other aspects. In the meantime, thanks for checking this out and taking the time to comment. Have a great night!

[@mrak1133]

@@Smooth_Shading i should thank you man for doing this tutorial

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@mrak1133 My pleasure. Thanks for your comments!

[@pribringhurst8999]

Thank you! I'm excited to see how it's done!

[@Smooth_Shading]

You are quite welcome! I hope it helps!

[@FaddyVFX]

thank you for the tutorial, i wish to see more transportation rigging tutorial, as im also learning blender for the car animation and rigging here

[@Smooth_Shading]

I've had it in mind to do more tutorials on using Rigacar and Transportation. I will someday but until then I hope you've found some other good ones. Good luck in whatever you're working on currently and thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.

[@FaddyVFX]

@@Smooth_Shading looking forward , thank you

[@LoldemortII]

Amazing video, even a blender noob like I was able to follow nicely ;) Very well explained what everything does.

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad it was helpful. Thank you for the really nice comment, I appreciate it. I hope whatever you're working on comes out great!

[@SalasEmsa]

Really apreciate this tutorial, amazing work dude

[@Smooth_Shading]

That's a really nice compliment man. I'm glad it was helpful. Thanks for checking it out and taking the time to leave a comment. Have a great day brother.

[@mary2613]

Thank you for this, it was so informative and clever. "Drop a deuce" 🤣 I'm looking forward to watching the rest of your videos.👏👏

[@Smooth_Shading]

I'm glad you like that part. Thanks for checking this out and commenting. Have a great night!

[@fuzzynt3d696]

lets gooo, my level to understand English is limited, I will see if I can do something after learning from the video.

[@Smooth_Shading]

Let me know if you have any trouble. Thanks for checking this out. Hope it helps!

[@tomaslineker]

how did we go from having the emiters as a flow fluid to a domain gas?

[@Smooth_Shading]

I think you might be confused by the pinned properties panel to the right of the 3D viewport, showing the domain settings. If you go back to 4:44, the video explains the reason behind it. Hopefully, if I understood your question correctly, that will help. Please let me know if it does/doesn't and if you have any other questions. Good luck with your project, I hope it turns out well.

[@tomaslineker]

you are spot on, thanks so much for the reply!! @@Smooth_Shading

[@Ponlets]

how do you get it to not have gaps between frames of emission so it blends them together?

[@Smooth_Shading]

Try increasing the Sampling Substeps in the emitter settings. Depending on how fast your car is moving, that value will need to be increased accordingly. Start with a Sampling Substeps value of 2 or 3 and see if that helps. Let me know how that works out and if you have any other questions.

[@fearthesmeag]

have you tried RBC yet, works well with transportation?

[@Smooth_Shading]

Yes, I'm a big fan of RBC. I'm looking forward to using it in future projects. On my PC it works best with a low poly mesh but then I parent the dense models from Transportation to the low poly mesh, make the low poly mesh invisible in renders and the dense model mimics the physics behavior of the low poly mesh. Works out perfectly.

[@machis0]

Thank You

[@Smooth_Shading]

You're welcome! Thanks for the comment!

[@triniemoore9100]

great video! Im having a small issue with the smoke going everywhere and collecting above the car, I don't know whether this is because of the new version or something else. Everything else looking great though!

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you! What is the vorticity value? It's very touchy and can make the smoke behave erratically. Glad it's otherwise working well though. Keep me posted, I'll do my best to help iron it out.

[@triniemoore9100]

@@Smooth_Shading I just finished a render. I can send it to you so you can see what is going on if you would like

[@triniemoore9100]

the vorticity is at what was recommended

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@triniemoore9100 Is it the scale of the vehicle and the scene perhaps? Is the car "real-world" size?

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@triniemoore9100 Can you post it on your channel? I'd be happy to check it out there.

[@mammadovsstudio]

you awesome. thanks you

[@Smooth_Shading]

You're welcome. Thank you for commenting. Have a great day!

[@lassebauer]

Noob question: can the wheel mesh with the dust fx be saved as an asset for later use in other files?

[@Smooth_Shading]

I believe the smoke sim data can be exported, saved, brought into another project, and applied to a new scene. Forgive me though, I'm not familiar with the process. I wish I could've given you a better answer my friend. Thanks for checking out the video and taking the time to comment though. I hope you do find the answer you're looking for and also that whatever project you're currently working on comes out great. Have a good day!

[@lassebauer]

@@Smooth_Shading Thanks! And anytime :) You should do more tut videos; you're really good at explaining and you have a great voice and tone-of-voice for it 👍🏼😊

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@lassebauer Thanks man. I really appreciate the compliment and encouragement.

[@logiknotlogic6586]

if the scene is exactly the same, you can use the cache file and get the same effect. but if something changes, like the direction of the car, then it wont match

[@lassebauer]

@@logiknotlogic6586 Thanks! Good to know :)

[@TeBiDoWil]

This was awesome! The “smoke” passes through the body of my car however. Did I miss something?

[@TeBiDoWil]

BTW, at times, you sound just like Matthew Broderick lol

[@TeBiDoWil]

I thought that I should add, I am using this tutorial a *little* bit loosely as I’m doing a burnout and also using Khaos Fire Shader.

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thank you for taking the time to comment. You can make the body of the car a smoke collision object in the physics settings for the car body. If your car body mesh is pretty high-poly though, you'll probably want to make a low-poly version of it either with the decimate modifier or make a simplified version of it using basic modeling techniques. After you set it as a collision object, you may want to turn off it's visibility in rendering if any parts of it are visible. The smoke sim will naturally take longer to calculate/bake with a collision object involved, especially if it's high-poly. That should do the trick. Thanks for asking about this and I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks again for the feedback. I hope your animation turns out great!

[@TeBiDoWil]

@@Smooth_Shading that solved it, thank you!

[@gabrielmillien7439]

Cool mitsubishi Evo 4

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks! I wish I could say I modeled it myself but it is part of the Transportation add-on, which is packed with great, high-quality vehicle models. Have a good day my friend!

[@mica.motion]

On this one, no collision too ?

[@Smooth_Shading]

No, though you can do a simplified version of the back portion of the car, make it invisible to the camera, set it as a collision object, and parent it to the car body. The smoke will behave more realistically around it but the physics bake time is longer.

[@basejumperdx4573]

Can we use this for ? Drift smoke?

[@Smooth_Shading]

Yes, just make some small adaptations to the settings. I am working on a tutorial for tire smoke that may be more applicable though. It will be out in the very near future. Thanks for commenting!

[@basejumperdx4573]

Can you make tyre burnout smpke please

[@Smooth_Shading]

Yes, I will work on that and put it up in the near future. Thank you for checking this out and commenting!

[@DreamGamer-kl5zj]

pc specs ???

[@Smooth_Shading]

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz and 12G of Ram How about yours?

[@hussainadam6651]

how you make tire dust

[@Smooth_Shading]

Thanks for checking this out!

[@ApexArtistX]

youtube force ads is shoving down our throats now

[@Smooth_Shading]

Yeah, my channel is not even monetized yet and I noticed that when revisiting this video the other day. It stinks that the channel owner has no control over it.

[@syncpixels3850]

Bro i can hear your cpu fan noise 😂😂😂

[@Smooth_Shading]

Can you really hear it?

[@yesdadbut960]

It is taking 45 mint for 1 frame render 😮😅😭

[@Smooth_Shading]

How many samples are you using?

[@Smooth_Shading]

What are your samples set at? Maybe lower them and see how it looks. Let me know how it's going. I'll be glad to help.

[@yesdadbut960]

@@Smooth_Shading 140

[@Smooth_Shading]

@@yesdadbut960 Try something as low as 32 samples. I know it sounds pretty low but with denoising on, you might still get a decent looking render. If the denoising leaves it blotchy looking, try 48 samples. I rarely render above 64 samples and my PC is pretty modest. Render times are usually around 5-7 min per frame. Sometimes my animations look a little shimmery because of the lower samples and denoising but that's the trade-off for the render times. You'll find the sweet spot. Thanks for checking out the video and let me know if you have any other issues, please. Have a great day!