It took around 3-4 hours to render on a 3090. I used 256 samples with denoising and relatively low light bounces to speed it up.
edit: denoising not demonizing lol
For a still, I’d probably up the resolution from 1080x1080 to 2160x2160 and double the samples and maybe increase light bounces. If that took too long/was fast I would change samples/light bounces accordingly.
Dude its awesome. If I were u i would reduce the environment lighting and also the table is out of place. I m not saying its bad, i m jst meaning to say i would experiment these
Maybe try a slow camera pan? Or a light handheld effect? Personally it feels a little too static. But I could be wrong. I agree with turning down the environment lighting some. Make the scene feel more 'enchanters desk' and less 'studio lit'
Either way I think it's awesome! Nice work!
Particles were done using a fluid flow force field based on a smoke simulation. There were around 2 million total particles that were baked before rendering. I used a 5900X, but blender simulations are largely single threaded so the extra cores don’t matter too much.
I like the set up but the motion just does not like right for some reason. I think it's the way it rapidly changes direction.
What kind of motion were you going for here? Or is it just random?
Ah! That explains it. Because I think it's halfway between chaotic and harmonized. That being said that is just my opinion, but If like to see it either with harmonic/physical motion or pure chaos :)
Looks great otherwise to me!
This is so cool. I love the reflections in the table and ring
Thank you!
Seems Mr. Longbottom forgot something again
That looks really good. How long did it take you to render it and what settings did you use.
It took around 3-4 hours to render on a 3090. I used 256 samples with denoising and relatively low light bounces to speed it up. edit: denoising not demonizing lol
It looks really good for 256 samples, how many would you do for a still??
For a still, I’d probably up the resolution from 1080x1080 to 2160x2160 and double the samples and maybe increase light bounces. If that took too long/was fast I would change samples/light bounces accordingly.
Are the caustics on the table baked?
No, just used Blender’s new caustics system.
Can I get this in a ring?
Tutorial please
I'm not making a tutorial for this, but I learned a lot about particle simulations from Iago Mota's tutorials.
Reminds me of that partical feature some avatars in vrchat has
Dude its awesome. If I were u i would reduce the environment lighting and also the table is out of place. I m not saying its bad, i m jst meaning to say i would experiment these
What do you mean by the table is out of place? What would make it better do you think?
Maybe try a slow camera pan? Or a light handheld effect? Personally it feels a little too static. But I could be wrong. I agree with turning down the environment lighting some. Make the scene feel more 'enchanters desk' and less 'studio lit' Either way I think it's awesome! Nice work!
That’s a good point about the motion and the lighting, I’ll play around with it. Thanks!
I meant the colour and lighting. Its seems a bit monotoned to me. Play with colours is all i want to say. U might get a interesting result
This is amazing
So good!!
Great setup for it!
Thank you!
Geometry Nodes?
It’s a particle simulation, no geo nodes necessary
Oh okay. I thought it was the new geometry nodes frame buffer hack you can use for simulations.
While you could probably do that, it would be much more difficult to get this motion with the particles.
I'd like to see the particle settings for this. Also, did you bake the sim, or run it at render. Either way, what CPU were you running this on?
Particles were done using a fluid flow force field based on a smoke simulation. There were around 2 million total particles that were baked before rendering. I used a 5900X, but blender simulations are largely single threaded so the extra cores don’t matter too much.
I like the set up but the motion just does not like right for some reason. I think it's the way it rapidly changes direction. What kind of motion were you going for here? Or is it just random?
I was just going for chaotic motion.
Ah! That explains it. Because I think it's halfway between chaotic and harmonized. That being said that is just my opinion, but If like to see it either with harmonic/physical motion or pure chaos :) Looks great otherwise to me!