Mantaflow Fire & Smoke Simulation Guide in Blender

In this video we will be learning how to download Blender. Very easy and anyone with knowledge of using a computer can skip this lesson.

You should always be saving your Blender file when working with complex scenes.  Blender can be a little bit unstable sometimes so saving is highly recommended. 

In this video I show the basics of Blender and how to get started learning the program!

In this video we will be learning about the fire and smoke basics in Blender and how to get started.

Quick Smoke allows you to select any object and apply a quick smoke effect automatically. This will also create a basic domain where we can then tweak and change the settings to our liking.

In this video we take a look at the smoke behavior and how it effects the simulation in Blender 2.8!

Smoke flames are the values that change the height, speed, and density of the flames and smoke. And in this video I show you how it works.

Adaptive domain allows you to only bake in certain parts of the simulation. This can speed up bake times and render times.

Smoke Noise is a quick way to add lot's of detail to your smoke without going crazy high in the resolution.

Guiding allows you to change the smokes velocity using an object or another simulation.  In this video we take a fluid simulation and have the smoke follow it.

Guiding Effectors allow you to use an object to move the smoke in a certain direction.

With collections you can limit the flows or the collisions that a simulation will have.

The cache is where all the simulation data is stored and there is more to it than you might think.

Field weights are the strengths of the force fields in your simulation. It allows you to have certain force fields have more power than others.

Viewport display allows you to change how the smoke looks in the view. This does not effect the render, only the viewport. You can create some interesting results using this panel in Blender.

The smoke type is pretty easy to understand. It emits smoke into  your scene. In this video we take a look at the settings and exactly what they do.

The fire type emits fire into your simulation. There are a couple of settings that allow you to change how the fire looks and in this video we explore that.

The collision type is exactly how it sounds. It will act as a collision for the smoke.  You can use this to block the smoke from entering a certain area or just to add some interest to the simulation.

In this quiz you will be asked about the flow types in the smoke simulation in Blender!

OpenVDB is a new way of storing volumetric data and in this video I show you how to import that data in Blender 2.83

In this video we learn how the material for the smoke works in the node editor.

The fire material is pretty cool and you can create some interest colors and in this video I show you how it works.

In this video we create a simulation using two different colors of smoke. You can do this by going over into the node editor and changing the color attribute name to "color". This takes into account the inflow objects color rather than the principled volume color.

In the next 5 part series we will be creating a very realistic fire simulation and learning about adding sparks to the flames. This article contains a link to the HDR that we use in the tutorial.

This 5 part series is a tutorial on creating a very realistic fire simulation. This first part is setting up the different values in the fire simulation to get it to look realistic.

Now that the fire simulation is done let's move onto creating the sparks using the particle system.

In this video we create a fancy particle material where it changes color while the particle rises.

Finally we move onto setting up the lighting and rendering out an animation of fire with sparks in Blender!

In this video we use the curve and screw modifiers to get a UV sphere to follow a spiral.

Now that the animation is finished we can move on to simulating the smoke.

Finally the materials and rendering is the last step! In this video you will learn how to properly render smoke in Eevee!

In this video we set up the particle system and explode modifier for our simulation in Blender!

Now that we have our particle system done we will now set up the fire simulation for the explosion.

In this video we create the materials for the fire and the particles.

In this video we start creating the Particle System for our low poly fire in Blender!

In this video we will be creating the particle material and using an Object Info node to change the color as the particle rises.

In this video we finish out our low poly fire by setting up the Eevee render settings.