How to simulate a car crash in blender

[@tedfritzart]

Glad to hear we will be getting more frequent uploads. Your destruction tutorials are the best.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you! That's really nice to hear.

[@GroovyGregfruit]

you're destruction tutorials are fr just the best!

[@ShaNa101]

Legend!! is back with another masterpiece!!!

[@alsoegonedman]

Good job! Also, It’s the best feeling ever hearing my music in your videos :)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you man! Allways appreciate using your music on my videos.

[@stuCameraman1]

Wow that's great!!! I like how the metal bends hard then bounces and wobbles..... Just like those crash test videos 🔥🔥🔥🙏👍🏼

[@Parth5d]

this is a topic searched by every blender user so i believe this is gonna blow up

[@Df14141]

Hello! Thank you very much for this lesson! I have been wanting to try to test physics in a blender for a very long time (with the help of this scene) and now I saw this video! I am very glad!!!

[@CG_Pigeon]

ur so underrated.. u reply to every comment ive seen heaps of people just ignore there comments! u deserve more subs :D

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you;)

[@toapyandfriends]

I've been looking everywhere for a good car crash simulator yet the best one.... thank you

[@AlbinThorburn]

You're welcome! Glad you like it

[@toapyandfriends]

@@AlbinThorburn 😆

[@mahabbat1960]

Wow.. Very great work! Thank you! So much work was done for us.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Glad you liked it!

[@RBN64]

This looks good but some suggestions The metal ( or the outer part of the car ) should be more stiff (it should stay in the deformed postion ) . Reduce the number of glass particles ( car glass is tempered) metal particles would be good , also sperate some parts (like wheels or door or mirrors )of the car and add rigid body physics. Car needs more weight, it looks a bit like its floating . Smoke looks a bit weird .

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll keep those in mind next time

[@DemetrioScuncia]

Bravo! precise and clear explanation, good work!

[@karinholm6914]

Wow nice tutorial. Could you make a second part of this movie where it runs in to wood fence or barn?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Good idea! That would be really cool

[@rccarsworld8216]

Great work broo

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you! My most loyal subscriber ;)

[@M.I.F..]

Wow! Very nice tutorial! Should try that!

[@ifthis_]

i hit the like button before the intro was even finished.

[@HeroDestrin]

This is hella sick. My only suggestion is to increase the gravity on everything. By default, it's set too low - setting it to about 7 works well for me.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Cool! Thanks for the advice, I'll keep that in mind

[@figo2989]

great tutorial! Although I have a problem when I separate the windows from the car to explode them it removes the baked soft body simulation. do you know why this is happening?? thanks in advance!

[@قصصوحكايات-خ4ل]

thank you bro great and easy to follow video

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks!

[@amirhossein7113]

Thank you for your effort, please leave the next part more complete.

[@Scrahdabley]

what an amazing tutorial, thanks man

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you!🙏

[@DoryRail]

Extraordinary. Thanks.

[@lln6123]

haha, when I saw that simulation the first time I was very impressed. Thanks for the help. But I think I need more knowledge in blender physics first...

[@aoshiknight14heroforfun]

tengo un problema, al modificar la plasticidad, y volvera ver los resultados, el auto desaparece en el frame 40. que puedo hacer?

[@sander-wit]

Awesome techiniques in this tutorial, thanks a lot! I never know of the power of the surface deform modifier! By the way, you can use L to select all verticles that are connected to the selected verticle (in stead of using the 'select more' option).

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thank you friend, I didn't know this trick!

[@hasanaamir1020]

you are perfect

[@supercalifragilisticex]

any time I set the pull and push to ".99", my car vanishes once the soft body sim begins. 😨 edit: i solved this issue by finding the perfect setting for my model (.98)

[@scottlee38]

Very Good!

[@rakeemdesigns]

🤯 Great Job!

[@shurikanzzz347]

Thank you! Can you export it to Unreal afterwards?

[@Mind_Splitter]

Super impressive!

[@pakball1]

the car model just goes poof at high bending or at 0.99 values of push and pull,any fix for this? i wanna make a crushing animation similar to this but the model just vanishes

[@jakubvk5495]

this is a god dayum alternative to beamng

clap, clap, clap. SUPERB!!

[@nael45_klavir79]

Hello! I have a question. After the lowpoly collision ends, my car keeps sinking into the ground. How do you fix this?

[@AndPsj]

with a collision in the floor, maybe? i dont know much about this, but you can try

[@Turgineer]

15:31 Hmm... The roof of the car bends like a pillow. Nice tutorial.

[@Каналдляучебы-ы9ф]

WOW😁 Really cool👍👍👍

[@NimaCn]

Thanks a lot for this video. Really helpfull!

[@jigarthakornugar]

Amazing 👌

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks!

[@yaschan99]

How would you go about rigging turning wheels to setup like this? Had some issue rotating them due to the pivot point changing the moment when the car hits

[@gavrilyt1187]

i tried to put some models on to blender but it will only show an photo with the car

[@AWSYCREATION]

Love this one :)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks! Hope it was helpful :D

[@AlbinThorburn]

By the way, you have some awesome videos. I'm gonna have to download your noisy cell fracture addon and try it out

[@AWSYCREATION]

@@AlbinThorburn Woah thanks...it my first release addon and it free... I also going to release the noisyfracture extras ..so user can put rigidbody without explode it

[@sadness212]

Pro keep it up 💚 great job as always 💚

[@MusicsofGifts]

Videos like this

[@alesdanz]

How can I stop the animation?, because it stays floating :(

[@AlbinThorburn]

I got some "floaty" results aswell ;( Don't know how to fix that yet

[@sahil_kurti]

hello 5:45 your car is crash but my car is disappear from the plane i don't know can you help me

[@abdimaulana6354]

me too

[@89ZY]

Nice Project.

[@yaschan99]

Adding .99 Push / Pull values will make the object disappear. Having scale applied to the deform mesh. Only if I lower the values to .5 or around .6 the mesh continues to exist Update; Seems we have to be quite conservative with the density of the deforming mesh, lowering the resolution solved the issue

[@martinholmes954]

How can I make a slow motion with that simulation?

[@unskillednaive416]

Superb epic

[@AlbinThorburn]

Thanks!

[@pandawithanak5914]

I followed this to a T and I cant get mine to work. I set up the deform object, soft body, keyframe, and strength, but the vehicle does nothing. Just goes from one keyframe to the next and stops.

[@winy7679]

good tutorial

[@Yokai.Wakukhan]

VERY SWAG MUCH WOW

[@Glurgi]

Could you show material compression/decompression? Like meteor strike at the ground, ground compresses into crater then bounce back a bit as particles fly off. That would be pretty cool, I think :) Tack for the tutorials, one day I will learn... ;)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Woah, good idea! I'm going to look into that

[@MusicsofGifts]

More please 🥺

[@AlbinThorburn]

I will :D

[@okropiridzeioanne5115]

how can i export for other 3d software?

[@lauceritmnl4165]

5:36 everytime i set edges it freezes blender. How can i fix it?

[@ArchBlend.]

Where did u get nissan x trail model?))

[@daredeman3430]

I don't know why, but for some reason this 5:37 step doesn't work anymore, in blender 4.1. Or I did something wrong, but I don't know I remade it twice and still not working : the car keeps falling down, not crashing. Could you help me please ?

[@gooorylin]

have you used a soft bosy simulation - in order to achieve that special effect?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Yep:)

[@junkieyankee]

Great job!

[@gamegamers2004]

I'm on blender 4.0 and my animation is running on 1 or 2 fps and even crashing when I apply soft body to my mesh, My specs are: Intel core i5 10th gen Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6gb vram Ram: 16gb Virtual memory:9924 mb Windows 11 pro I'm relatively new to Blender so any help with settings, would be appreciated. Thankyou.

[@RealGaryGibson]

Fantastic! Where did you get the sound effects for the crash? I think that really nailed it.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Freesound :)

[@iipxandaxi3696]

@@AlbinThorburn game name

[@akashseth4014]

i tired it , but my bonnet i parented to 3vertex keeps moving around.

[@ChandraAwesome]

Its a great video. thanks for sharing. Btw after applied the soft body keyframes, , the car body sinking to the plane? can you tell whats the wrong in it

[@emr3d]

When i set the plasticity and bending to the max, the car just disappears, how do i fix?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Try increasing it to like 9,99 :)

[@henglin422]

If my model is drawn by Rhinoceros to export OBJ or STL. They are all triangular meshes, so that my graphics can still be animated using the methods in the tutorial?

[@sherazirahman7559]

You have joined the whole car as a single to apply the modifier but in actual the car comes in many parts and also rigging is to be done

[@rabinkhattri229]

My car is going inside the plane. How do I fix it? I also applied collision to the plane and to the cube too. Also, some of my exploded glasses are being left where the car hits the cube. WHY?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hi! Try increasing the solver itterations of the soft body. As for the glass I am not sure what the problem is, maybe you can try giving the particle system some initial velocity. Hope this helps!

[@notnoticedgamer]

How do you apply?

[@beeverone4740]

thanks for this!!!

[@zitongxu6007]

thank you

[@theforest5371]

ure actually a goat!!

[@AlbinThorburn]

I’m not a goat im a human 😭

[@DviousDingle]

Dude, use 'L' to select loose parts and it will select parts of the mesh which aren't connected to anything(meaning that they don't share vertices). This was a good tutorial nonetheless.... Also to make it better, the crashing need to be faster(the simulation), its too floaty. Either increase the object weight or simulation speed. Also for the glass shattering, in the collision properties, decrease collision margin and increase friction and damping.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Bro thank you so much I actually didn't know the L trick. Thank you :D

[@DviousDingle]

@@AlbinThorburn Np, happy to help :)

[@DviousDingle]

@Luda Cris why tho, irl car crash faster due to mass

[@DviousDingle]

@Luda Cris It would look better if it was sped up, since speed can represent weight and if weight isn't felt then any animation is going to feel off, Slow motion is a different thing tho, where EVERYTHING slows down to emphasize the main thing happening but you can't classify this animation as slow motion as everything else is moving faster like the glass shards. look at the animation again and see whether its a bit floaty or not. Animations is tweaking stuff you can't do irl, yes but you have to respect momentum and weight otherwise, its a no go. look at any other animations where they don't respect what I mentioned above... if you don't respect those laws then you get animation which look like surreal entertainment's stuff(they intentionally make it like that)

[@mybiznizisbangingdooog7481]

@@DviousDinglehe could have sped it up after the car flipped over that way it amplifies that slow motion I agree sped up should have been key framed but after the car flipped

[@Шадовкилли]

Where can I download this application?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Blender.org :) it's free!

[@lazebrine2071]

bro how do i download a car and spawn it in cuz THIS DOES NOT WORK

[@ArteavenGaming]

Soft body is not colliding with collison object why it is happening

[@efeozturk5253]

the car looks super floppy tho. I probably wont ever use this for a car scene but you gave me an idea that I can use for something else :)

[@AlbinThorburn]

Agreed, I'll have to work on that. I'm glad you found it useful anyways :)

[@efeozturk5253]

@@AlbinThorburn of course! thanks for the video

[@alperencolak1701]

I export animation and add in unity . My animation is not see because animation inside the box. I am just learning blender and unity. Can you help me?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hmm, the deformation probably won't export, since all that is happening inside of blender. Exporting as fbx should keep some of the animation though...

[@Marvelwalibadmashi]

How to use this in video

[@DylanPlayzz87]

Now I need to learn to do this in unreal engine 5 lol

[@OrenHasAPorsche]

Can i adjust the Pull and Push to 0.86? It looks good if its like that and it will deform pretty easy but it keeps the deform phase! Hope you mind Replying!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Yeah man, experiment with it and see what works! The values in the video are just what worked best for me after some trial and error. Still not perfect though as some have pointed out it's a little wobbly hahaha!

[@wdkpwr6586]

perfect tutorial

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hahah yep you're right xD

[@kiro253]

@hjf4a2 wow hey "PROFESSIONAL" this video is obviously for beginners if u work on studio u wont be here in the first place. And wont use blender? What? Some studio(like corridor crew) are starting to use blender it is up to budget and preference Have some respect on someone else work as$hole

[@damian_madmansnest]

@hjf4a2 General rule: never use any tutorial results for your demo reel. This is merely a tutorial. It is intended for learning the principles.

[@basejumperdx4573]

Can you make tyre drift smoke or burnout smoke tutorial?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Maybe in the future! There are loads of videos on that allready, search for "tire smoke" and you'll find a bunch of them :)

[@ahmadsuryanurhafidzhaeran8138]

bro why my car disappr when i adjust edges in soft body

[@AlbinThorburn]

Try changing the push and pull to something like 9.8, if it is to high it can glitch out

[@supercalifragilisticex]

I can't find the car file when I import it as a obj.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Not sure what causes that problem :( perhaps try another model or download it in another file format?

[@supercalifragilisticex]

@@AlbinThorburn Thank you.

[@KirstenSchow3D]

I gotta ask, why did you decide to choose soft body over rigid body? The car suffers from squishiness :) when a car crashes, it generally keeps its form based on the point of impact and how much force has been applied. For example, where your car is hitting the box at the front, most likely the back end of the car would be mostly fine, and even the rear windshield and rear windows could be intact. I did like the breaking windows, but them all breaking at once does make the car crash feel unrealistic. I hope my critique is ok. If you were going for more theatrical, this works. The overall tutorial was helpful for breaking into the newer versions of Blender; I did some car crash simulations on 2.77 and was hoping they had improved the physics (which looks like they have). Thanks!

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hi! Thanks for the critique, I totally get what you mean:) the reason I tried using soft body sim was to have the deformation be physically based on the impact, but it totally looks a bit squishy haha! You could probably get a more plastic deformation by changing the simulation settings, but I was pretty happy that I got it to work in the first place!:) Again, thanks for the feedback. Cheers!

[@cookiedrawsCRK]

Someone be jumping in the car to make it randomly crash

[@garmezon9502]

Is there a way to make the soft body simulation "stronger"? It feels like a bit jello

[@AlbinThorburn]

I believe this was about as rigid as I got it 🤣 but there's probably some setting you could work on

[@garmezon9502]

@@AlbinThorburn Hmmm, i'm trying to do some simulation where steel beams are bent, but they don't look very realistic, might have to animate them by hand Lol

[@ViensVite]

Hello On blender 3.2 it just doesnt work i tried to mess with the settings but no way. My car just like melt on itself. Even with collision, the stuff go through the ground. It's like the car just transform into a cloth.

[@AlbinThorburn]

Hi! Sounds like you have some problems with the soft body sim. For starters you can try increasing the push and pull value of the springs. If that doens't work, maybe you need more geometry in your deform object. You can get that by changing the value of the remesh modifier. Hope this helps.

[@ViensVite]

@@AlbinThorburn hello ty for answer. actually my cas is getting like really blocky if i use the same values as you when you uses decimate modifier. shouldn't i just dont use it at all? 0.5 or 0/6 i got basically a very cubic stuff so i sticked to 0.12 wich maybye was too much still.

[@37thcenturyboigbauttputtd]

4:53 rip deformation car 2022 - 2022

[@mangomanoj7536]

Can crash 4cars at a time can u explain it plse😢

[@johnredfield071]

While doing the crash the car doors doesn't get removed can u explain this?

[@ryanberry2828]

How did you get the Model

[@AlbinThorburn]

I got it from Cg trader. You'll find thousands different models to choose from :)

[@Smiley21254]

ive been stuck on the first stage for so long finding a good car whelp

[@MURDR_MSTRYMW]

BeamNG: Are you Challenging Me?

[@shivamjaidka]

ninja

[@rom16k82]

Beamng drive

[@Zep_Zar]

Lol

[@saturn5312]

Can we export to unreal engine?

[@AlbinThorburn]

Unfortunately I don't think so:(

[@saturn5312]

@@AlbinThorburn well that's sad, can u do unreal engine tutorials with chaos and Niagara? Because you explain very good

[@AN-dg7np]

Hood of the getting thrown off the car and flying on its own n the crash, Please help!