Blender Tutorial - Everything you NEED to know about the Molecular Script Add-On!
Why Blender Stack Exchange recommends it
Blender Stack Exchange users link it as the go-to tutorial when recommending the Molecular add-on for sand, snow, and other grain-like particle simulations.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2017 to 2018.
What it is
A 35-minute Blender tutorial by Moby Motion covering the basics of PyroEvil's Molecular Script add-on, a particle and physics simulation plugin not included in Blender by default. It walks through the add-on's various simulation modes and settings, since the official documentation is sparse.
What people said
Recommends cgslav · 2017-03 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “How to achieve realistic snow roll over?”
@KnowledgeSeeker Here is one and only by the time good tutorial on Molecular Addon ( [this video] ), and here is snow sim created in it: [LINK] You will want to use CubeSurfer with it to make solid mesh from particles. You can make ball bigger based on roll trough displace/dynamic paint. There is none physical information taken from it. Only way is as lemon said, do it manually.
Recommends Pascal R. Jardin · 2018-03 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Creating Realistic Close up Sand Material”
I don't know how close you want to be, but if you want it up close and personal, you going to have to create grains of sand. A great add-on for rigid body particles is the molecular addon. [LINK] and a great tutorial to get you started is [this video] [LINK] with that said, sand has a lot of different vacancies in it. So use this tutorial to create the vacancies, [LINK] here is a example of sand using the molecular add-on. [LINK] Above is free and a lot of work, but there is a website that will make your life easier, [LINK] which provides everything you need for pbr sand. You have to subscribe to it and its lowest cost is $13 per month. Use this tutorial to properly displace it [LINK] [LINK] hope
Cites Atari800XL · 2017-01 · Blender Stack Exchange · on “Blender particle system objects not colliding”
Thanks, have read this allready. Even with molecular addon it won't work. I'm watching this molecular addon tutorial here [this video] for the 2nd time ... it won't work!