Blender 4.2 Simulation Nodes: Master Animations & Simulation

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction & Setup

Lecture 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 2: Downloading & Installing Blender

Lecture 3: Setting Up Blender

Lecture 4: Community & Support

Chapter 2: Geometry Node Basics

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: The Simulation Zone & The Spreadsheet

Lecture 3: Indexes & Selection by Index

Lecture 4: Boolean Math

Lecture 5: Vectors

Lecture 6: Random Values

Lecture 7: Instances

Chapter 3: Text Morph Effect

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating Volume Objects

Lecture 3: Creating a Number Node Group

Lecture 4: Mesh to Points & Back Again

Lecture 5: The Simulation Zone

Lecture 6: Storing Named Attributes

Lecture 7: Setting an Initial Velocity

Lecture 8: Ending the Morph

Lecture 9: Framerate Independence

Lecture 10: Skipping a Simulation Zone

Lecture 11: Multiple Simulation Zones

Lecture 12: Bypassing Simulation Zones

Lecture 13: Number Morph Node Group

Lecture 14: Simplifying the Node Tree

Lecture 15: Exploding the One

Lecture 16: Debugging the Simulation

Lecture 17: Fixing the Simulation

Lecture 18: Creating a Material

Lecture 19: Lighting

Lecture 20: Compositing

Lecture 21: Final Render Settings

Lecture 22: Converting the Image Sequence into a Video

Lecture 23: Text Morph – Project Wrap-Up

Chapter 4: Fireworks

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Blender 4.2 LTS

Lecture 3: Setting Up Blender 4.2

Lecture 4: Project Start Scene

Lecture 5: Setting Intial Direction

Lecture 6: Setting Intial Velocity

Lecture 7: Creating Gravity

Lecture 8: Planning the Explosion

Lecture 9: Spawning the Correct Points

Lecture 10: Setting New Velocities

Lecture 11: Tidying the Node Tree

Lecture 12: Instancing Primary Particles

Lecture 13: Spawning Rocket Trails

Lecture 14: Rocket Trail Velocity

Lecture 15: Killing Trail Particles

Lecture 16: Killing Primary Particles

Lecture 17: Framerate Independent Velocity

Lecture 18: Shaders, Camera & Compositing

Lecture 19: Duplicating Node Trees

Lecture 20: Creating Primary Trail Attributes

Lecture 21: Spawning Primary Trails

Lecture 22: Setting Particle Color & Size

Lecture 23: Changing the Velocity of Particle Types

Lecture 24: Solving Problems & Scaling Particles by Age

Lecture 25: Final Tweaks

Lecture 26: Rendering Fireworks

Lecture 27: Creating Other Firework Simulations

Chapter 5: Creepy Crawlies

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: What Are Boids

Lecture 3: Starting Scene

Lecture 4: Cohesion

Lecture 5: Creating a Controls Node-Group

Lecture 6: Alignment

Lecture 7: Maintaining a Constant Speed

Chapter 6: More To Come

Lecture 1: More to Come