Blender Tutorial: Quick Explosion Simulation With Mantaflow in Cycles
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users link it as the step-by-step source when asking or answering questions about Mantaflow explosion, smoke and fire setups.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2020 to 2021.
What it is
A 14-minute Blender tutorial by Olav3D Tutorials that walks through building a quick explosion simulation with Mantaflow, using only the tools built into Blender. It covers setting up the smoke and fire domain, creating the shaders, and rendering the result in Cycles.
What people said
Recommends Azra · 2020-05 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Mantaflow Simulation: Fire and Smoke not rendering in Eeevee”
Seeing from your file it seems that your simulation domain does not have a shader, that's why. At that point of the tutorial the dude creates the shaders.(below) [this video]
Cites LoF10 · 2020-04 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Mantaflow Simulation: Fire and Smoke not rendering in Eeevee”
I am learning how to use Blender (2.8) on a macbook pro 2017 and have recently attempted to put together my first explosion using the following tutorial: [this video] I was able to follow through without issue except that the rendering is done in cycles which is too demanding for my macbook (rendering a single image shows as taking up to ~8 hours) so I want to render instead in eevee . I've baked the simulation but I can't seem to get what's in my viewport to show in my render when using eevee . cycles shows up fine. I am sure this is most likely a setting or misunderstanding of how I have arranged the elements. Was hoping someone could lead me in the right direction. I've attached my blender fil
Cites NotARambo · 2021-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Mantaflow smoke looks a bit weird”
I tried following this tutorial ( [this video] ) Im at 6:15 And my smoke ball looks nothing like his. Mine looks like this [LINK] Ive followed every step and thats where im stuck. Any ideas?