Create Simple Explosion VFX in Blender Mantaflow - Iridesium 

if i try to render this on my pc i don't even need to simulate the explosion

For the people that have problems with finding "Bake Data", Go to the Smoke domain > Physics tab > Cache > Type: - , And the type should be Modular, Default you have "Replay" on

"Usually I use 150 to 200, but for this tutorial I'm gonna leave it at 100." *changes the value to 150*

For anyone who can't find "color mapping," it's because you're on a newer version and it's just renamed to "grid display" it should show up under "viewport" display just like in the video.

0:45"and then delete everything, it's all useless" *uninstalls blender and starts career as baker*

I don't know why but at 6:28 when he says hes going to leave that setting at 100 and then right away enters 150 instead, I had a nice chuckle lol

For anyone having trouble with the smoke not showing in the rendered view. Select your domain and go to cache and select 'All' instead of 'Modular' or 'Replay', then 'bake all'.

I would LOVE a good mantaflow fire tutorial. There's barely any content out there for mantaflow fire, and what is actually available is very very simple and not very photorealistic at all. The few renders you showed at the end look incredible and I would love to see a tutorial for those!

Him: so press quick smoke My poor laptop: so ya want smoke, ey?

The Color Mapping is new called Grid Display

Literally wishing for this video yesterday. EXACTLY what I wanted. Thank you so much for sharing what you know man

Epic results Joel, thanks again for sharing!

"smoke" is now called "gas" on updated versions fyi

for the people that cant find color map. It changed to grid display after 1.9 update

One of the best explosion tutorials I've found. I've played with fluid water sims so far. Mantaflow is indeed slow, but I've been really impressed by the quality of the results. Looking foward to playing with this now.

I learned a ton of stuff from this tutorial. Usually I complain because tutorials are too slow, you don't have that problem. I will have to listen a few times to catch everything. Anyway thumbs up all the way.

Holy Jesus, I was making your nuclear blast tutorial Yesterday and now here it Is a new tutorial! Man, bruh, you make me so Happy! And all of us addicted to 3dexplosions/pyromaniacs are looking Just for stuff like this!!

Now THAT is what I'm talking about. That's awesome man! That looks really good and that opening was jaw dropping. The camera movement, the pyro, the atmosphere, very well done. Edit- what was the resolution for the fire next to the photo?

I use to play around with blender a number of years ago but stopped a while back. But you've resparked my interest, I'm excited to try some of the stuff I've seen on your channel!!

I've never done much simulations work in Blender but damn, this stuff is really cool! Great job dude!

For those people who are struggling with the smoke sim not being same as in the video, i finally figured it out after a lot of hardwork ,you need to select all the three emitters when you make the domain by the following steps Select all three emitters Object--) quick effects --) smoke effect

Could you maybe make a tutorial, where you show, how to simulate and shade the fire simulations. Cause they look really cool and realistic

Wow, I'm impressed. I know creating stuff is not bout tool, but about artist, but this is awesome fx I didn't expected from Blender. Great job

Ok this video got recommended to me and this was the first video i watched of yours, AND THAT INTRO WAS *INTENSE* MAN

Thanks for the video

I have no computer and im 13 So i will be back to this video in 10years!

Fantastic tutorial. I've been looking for weeks for how I might use a particle system in a smoke simulation, and I just couldn't find the right search terms. Somehow RU-vid's algorithm finally found me a good video! Thanks!

This is the best explotion tutorial, good job, keep going, and good luck for your next projects!!

Great tutorial! I'm still experimenting with Mantaflow to get cool looking explosions, but since I'm a little impatient I never get to bake real high resolution explosions, so they are always lacking in detail. One thing I noticed which I see a lot in smoke / explosion tutorials: you have a lot of flickering shadow artefacts in your rendered animations. Many people suggest using cubic interpolation in the material (which you already did) or not using Adaptive Domain to get rid of it. But that's useless. The main reason for the flickering shadows are bounce values set too low in Transmission and Transparent light paths. Yours are set to 8 and 12, I usually set mine to 64 or 128 (and Total to 128 of course) while leaving the others low. I didn't even notice an increase in render times, it just removes the flickering. By the way, this also helps with glass materials which I always thought are too dark, too shadowy.

Some final suggestions: the final material setup you show towards the end has three attribute nodes with the name "density" in it. You could use one attribute node to plug into all three color ramps. And since the density is represented as values ranging from 0 to 1, the color is only black to white - so you could use the factor output of the attribute node instead of the color output. I don't know if there are differences in precision between the color and the factor output, but I'd prefer factor to be on the safe side. And at first you used the Volume Info node instead of Attribute, if you give a reason why you changed it I might have missed it. The thing is, I experienced a small decrease of render time when using the density output of the Volume Info node instead of the Attribute node. It's just subtle, but of course it adds up when rendering animations. The color output of the Volume Info node you use at first is quite useless when plugged into a color ramp... because it just gives the color that's set in the "Smoke Color" settings of the flow object. Being a single color and not a color range, the color ramp just calculates a grey value from it and uses that single color to determine its output color. However - if you have multiple flow objects in your domain and give them different smoke colors, the color output of the Volume Info let's you put different smoke colors on different flow objects inside one domain material.

Wow, these explosions are fantastic. What I learned the most is how much shading can do, with the wrong shading these amazing explosions look like puffed whimpers of sadness.

I´m really hyped for this ;)

"This is a simple explosion, not an advanced one"... Jeeeezus.... Anyway, the video is simply amazing! A lot of details, clearly explained, the end result is incredible... I really appreciate how much effort you are putting into these

This man's so good, call this a knowledge bomb, cuz these explosions are fire

Cool final result. Thanx for tutorial! 😀👍

FANTASTIC Tutorial, dare I say perfect. Thank you so much! Subscribed.

2:25 Help!! My cube is in ancient greek, what do I do now?

„What did u done today?“ „I baked some explosions“

awesome job man, makes me wanna pick up blender again (I'm a maya guy)... I can't wait til we can see these kind of effects in real time!

Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! Worked perfect!

PSA for anyone using Blender 2.9 INCREASE INITAIL VELOCITY, 60 - 80 worked well for me

love the video that explosion with the ground dust looked amazing. would love one on mantaflow fluid in regards how to control the amount of foam bubbles and spray that are produced, i have played with all the settings but it produces millions and i mean millions for each of the particle type, you would need a NASA pc just to render it....

you do the best job of teaching this on youtube.. thank you I have struggled for months.. this was a life saver.. I finally understand what I was doing wrong

I'm here just for your epic intro. Love it!

for those wondering where the bake option is, you need to change your cache type from replay to modular. Select the domain open the fluid drop down menu if it isn't already open, open the cache drop down menu, select type and change it to modular. The default type was changed in version 2.83 so yeah.

I give up watching this Man's going fast and slow and randomly going fast

Great tutorial, gives an overall understanding of this system in blender.

Bro your intro is so cool, looks like it could be from a massive movie industry!

me: smiles my laptop: no! NO! nooo no no no no no!! god No!

0:46 "It's all useless" Initial Cube Lives Mater!

Excellent result. Just today I remade it in 2.90 , way better than previous version.

You are unbelivable proffesional ! I am so happy that I found video like this :D

"For this tutorial I'm gonna leave it at 100" *changes number to 150*

Really good tutorial, just a tip: the intro sound is a little to loud.

Nice work 👍😎👍 excellent explanation and process 😊🖖

is awesome your intro and content! the sound is WOW!

"I'm just gonna leave [the cache end frame] at 100" *immediately changes it to 150 Great tutorial. Thanks!

the fact that he used 200 particles instead of 2000

Thank you very much! This is an amazing tutorial! Thanks again!

great tutorial! It worked perfectly for me!

"cause it all USELESS" Default cube : " crying in silent"

For those people who's fire is not changing to the red and yellow ColorRamp, try deleting the attribute and re-add it again. took me like half an hr to fix it.

this is awesome. Intro to everything

Intro is sick !

Amazing Tutorial!! One question, though... at 10:53 How do you get that to start a little after the explosion, though? Every time I try to do it the "dust" starts rising at frame 1.

Simulation has always been Blender's weakness. That' requieres way more R&D than most other features.

New sub ! Thanks for the detailed tutorial. You are amazing

Awsm! Thanks for the video!

"delete everything, it's useless" also "I'm going to add in a cube"

Me: Hits Alt R Radeon Software: HELLO

that intro is truly epic

Very good tutorial, thank you. I got a really nice result.

9:22 How did you make smoke so big? Color mapping in the new Blender is a grid display. So how to make such a huge smoke in the grid display?

"Translate tool, in case your cube is in Latin" **Translates a latin plane**

Awesome tutorial!

Awesome; thank you for sharing!

Iridesium: So now lets bake, this shouldn't take very long Me: ok 50 min later* Iridesium: So now let's free the bake! Me: 😁🔫

At 6:56 "you can see a tiny little wisp of smoke comes up" - mine doesn't look like that, I've done the tutorial 3 times over trying to figure this out. Mine just looks squat. Any tips here?

Thx for sharing your knowledge!

That's one sexy looking UI! Loved it, thanks for sharing it

9:03 the viewport display panel lookes totally diffrent for me. i have blender 2.91.0 and i dont know how to do this step.

Could someone please send me a download link for a finished product because My thing isn’t working and I want to compare them thank you 😊.

Wow, impressive results.

Ultra useful thx a lot for all these tips!

In most tutorials the "Using Scene Gravity" Z value under fluid settings is -1 m/s but mine is like -9.8 m/s. It wont let me change it but does this matter?

is there anything you can do about the the domain cutting off the shockwave blast?

I love that intro!

A really informative tutorial, 👍I’ve tried following others but most of them have been useless

where's the color mapping in blender 2.90? I can't find any option for that or do i need to set that up in Shading?

15:00 why can't i see the smoke in the cycles enigne? i have added two suns with a direction towards the smoke, but all i get i a almost dark screen in the quick render in cycles

So Nice!!! Thank you!!!

superb. so much learning

"translate tool, in case your... cube is in Latin..." When that settled in...

9:23 "Because of the noise we added..." When did we add noise? I replayed this 4 times. I don't know... I'm in Blender 2.9 and I can't get this to look right.

Thannnks!! nice tips and impressive results!

The intro gets me every time

There are easier way,Just plug value node to blackbody intensity

GAME TRAILER : 0:17 GAMEPLAY: 20:43

I had to subscribe for that epic intro

AWESOME AND thanks so much...I am a newbie and this is so inspiring!