Chapter 10. Particles and Physics
Particles are difficult to define because they can be used for so many different purposes. They can be fire, dust, water, smoke, and a lot more. Particles are typically lots of items (often thousands) that flow from an emitter object. They can be affected by elements such as the wind (we will look at this early in the chapter). Particles are not editable mesh objects, although it is possible to set them up as clones of other objects.
In this chapter we are going to examine the settings needed to make particles act like the fiery exhaust from a rocket, hair, fluid, and even smoke. I will also give a brief introduction to force fields (such as wind) and how they can be used along with particle simulations. We will ...
Get Beginning Blender: Open Source 3D Modeling, Animation, and Game Design now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
