This is just so beautiful. The way that you're trying to speed everything up makes it feel like this is a scientific discovery happening in front our eyes.
I love how the cassette-label says: should have used cycles X for this vol. I xD. Anyway this is a really great tutorial which i am sure will help many people (me included) a lot
Is there anyone here that doesn't let their jaws drop while watching these videos? imo, a major part of the reason for that is the amazing way you explain this. You're just stunning, m'dude!
Thanks for sharing ! 4D Voronoi is very demanding for the computer, I used 3D Voronoi instead, the Z axis being used for the evolution instead of W. This way, I can use it directly on the mesh itself to make a swimming pool, and it's very fast (24 fps, real time). For a better effect, you can overlay two of your Voronoi modules with a slightly different mapping.
In some video games, it's done with 2 tillable voronois bitmap that are multiplied together and thresholded. Each one move in a different direction. I think it was in a GDC video but i couldn't find it.
@@guitoo1918 you are correct, it's a technique that's been done for years in gamedev. Majority of effects in games are combinations and differences of noises with different panners, fire, lava, slime all can be done with that technique.
I love tutorials like this. It just goes to show the creative spark can literally happen at anytime, even as soon as you’re about to get off. Also that effect is super clean, well done.
This is nuts. Just found your channel recently and subscribed as soon as I saw the first few videos I clicked on. This has to be one of my favourite effect videos anyone has put out about blender so far! The excitement, the ingenuity and best of all the "I cant go to sleep without making this tutorial": perfect!
I just discovered your content TODAY (thanks to Andrew Price), and I am blown away. For each video of yours that I've seen so far, I find myself wishing I could give it a thousand likes. Your production quality is amazing: the thought you put into the animations and textures, your sound design, your explanations of things, ugh. It's all so great. I sincerely hope I get to watch your content for years to come. Your passion for this art form shines through in every video, and I love it. Keep up the stellar work.
I really like how you explain and teach how to do relatively basics things, but at the end show examples of what it can do if you push it further. It's sometimes hard as a beginner to visualize where it could go if we spent more time on something, so it's very helpful.
What - The - F ..... This is AMAZING! I've been doing Blender for a year now, watched so many hours of tutorials and have never seen anything like it. Thank you so much!!
perpetually in awe of how talented 3D artists are. so cool being able to watch this and almost be able to keep up in real time lol. still have to go back but stoked i can be like excited when mapping and coordinate nodes make way into tutorials. def felt the mad scientist vibe on this one. dig it. thank you.
This channel is in my top 3 favorite Blender channels. I say Top 3 because I couldn’t pick just one favorite. The render info in the bottom left of the renders is just… *chef’s kiss*
"It renders so slowly" while producing 333 full HD frames in under 90 minutes. I used to wait 24 hours for a single 800x600 frame using the Ghost (later Brazil) renderer. This is practically real time in comparison. Nice work
Hehe... That’s crazy to hear!! Maybe in 10 years, we’ll all be nostalgic about waiting for renders to be done, since everything is real time. Thanks for the perspective, my friend!
aside from everything, the touch of chromatic aberration on the caustics in the renders, was such a smart attention to detail that helped the effect tremendously! great tut
Thankyou for showing the part where you get stuck, none shows it, we all know it ahppens to everyone, so you showing that part may help anyone understand how to think when you get stuck.. Your channel is fucking amazing
WOAH!!! Dude that's awesome! It looks so cool and I don't blame you for being so excited that you jus had to make a video at all! I wasn't sure where this was going but when it's animated it really looks amazing and underwater-like! Nicely done!
To increase performance you should definitely use a 3D version of the voronoi and animate it on the Z. The advantage of 4D with W is that your could also make it loop with a sine cosine pair. Alternative way to do it for eevee would be to use that procedual texture on the object's material with the lamp's coordinates, and multiply it with diffuse->ShaderToRGB.
Forgive me if this is a massively stupid question but I don't see a place to connect to the Z axis in the node editor in the same way that switching the Voronoi texture to 4d reveals a "W" value to change. Can you point me in the right direction of what you mean by "animate it on the Z"?
@@beautyislikeyeah There is a node "Combine XYZ" (Add->Converter->Combine XYZ" that lets you set independently each part of the vector. This gets you a purple socket you can connect into the voronoi input. You could then also add a "Seperate XYZ" on your original input coordinates and connect X and Y to the Combine, then set Z to your keyframed value. The reason 4D textures let you specify W independently is because blender's vectors are exclusively 3D. whereas actual mathematical vectors have arbitrary size
@@syborg64 Thank you so much for this. Hadn't run across that node before and it sounds super useful. Can't tell you how much I appreciate the reply. :)
@@dukevera4216 the process is simple: bending spacetime curvature onto a 4d hypertorus all joking aside, start with an input node and animate it to linearly go from 0 to 1 in the time you want. (here, either match animation length to let it autoloop or actually keyframe it to any whole number and use a modulo by 1 (math node) to bring it down to the 0-1 range) Multiply your input by 2*pi, to get it to a range that loops with trig functions Connect it to 2 nodes (in parallel) : sine and cosine (math node) Seperate your input XYZ vector, keep only the XY, Combine inputX, inputY, sine into a vector (combineXYZ) feed the combineXYZ and second trig function node (as W) into your procedural texture. if you want to change the apparent speed of the animation, multiply the output of both Sine and Cosine by the same value Voila
Wow, this looks amazing I feel like earlier versions of the node group could even be used to make environment spiderwebs with all the different contrast levels to fake the thickness
I will never make these things but It's so satisfying watching you create this image you have in your head and be so eager to share it with everyone else. Beautiful.
It's the first the video from your channel that I'm watching and I'm dropping a comment just to say I'm so fascinated by your enthusiasm. I really miss working with people so motivated and passionate. Keep up the great work, never lose the passion
You know what you could have added? I haven't done a lot of research but the colours split at some point, so you may want to add a bit of something like chroma aberration to make it even more realistic. I guess :P
I have absolutely no Idea why this was recommended or what is going on, that being said I watched every second as excited as you were making the video. Kinda like when dogs get super hype just cause everyone else is happy
Ah i just discovered your channel and I feel like crying, you are explaining everything very clearly but its also very fast? I really cane across a miracle thank you so much for tutorials! It really changes the quality when someone is passionate about the subject
- - - 4.0 Fix - - - Connect the mappings vector to UV instead of normal in the texture cordinates (i set my mapping scale to 0.7) so i can see the caustics a bit better **I personally dont recommend linking scale and randomness but that is up to you*** for the RGB mix Shader Replace the Difference to Lighten (in the Rgb shader modes you can get different styles that go well with caustics too, i just chose lighten because it went well with the project im working on) play around with the color ramp that links the Lighten to the Light output (this only works on Cycles) Hope it helps! :)
you can also use a similar node set up but on the volume itself to control the emission input (put the density on 0), you might also want to set up the textures as 2Ds. this way you get godrays without sacrificing speed.
great technique -- I tried something similar in eevee but with the caustics being the actual texture on the object. Your method seems way easier, will have to try!
Hey Derek, great to see you here!! Interesting. It would be really nice with an easy way to do this in eevee! Like the texture data is already there in the node, should be possible to just slap it on there somehow
Man so glad I found your channel. Not only your tutorials are great, but your examples and renders are actually not looking like garbage but instead highly artistic and contemporary like it’s actually usable on anything with a modern approach. Wow!
it's hard to decide which is more impressive: the creative capabilities of 3d ray tracing software, or the community of folks like yourself sharing their research therein. this is so cool and helping a lot with an indoor scene im making that involves water. thanks mate, subscribed B)
Wow! Watching you use Blender is wild. I have been studying and learning crazy cool things from your spider with glass legs tutorial. Thank you so much.
You can get sharper shadows in eevee by bringing the size value of the light really low (Eevee calculates shadows of a light with a size > 0 by essentially wiggling the point source around which is why shadows aren't amazing), and bringing the plane closer to the scene rather than the light source. You can also turn off 'soft shadows' in the render section.
I honestly don't care about 3D modelling at all, but seeing someone this enthusiastic and excited about something, really does make the video enjoyable anyway.
great effect, I found easing the mixRGB node to about 80% produced a more natural look, and not letting the dark areas be 100% shadow also helps sell the effect
Thanks so much man!! I was afraid it would be boring compared to the more heavily edited stuff I've posted lately. This video was so much fun to make!!
Watching this and solely working with Eevee, I was like "using this as a texture and adding transparency, this should be no problem in Eevee" - when the after-credits scene showed just that. =) Absolutely great stuff, I'll use this in the future and I am sure, the shadow issues can be sorted out at some point. Afterall, the shadow should exactly be, what the texture offers.
What!?! That last render with the cassette is insane! Looks real!!! You have to do a tutorial on something like that! The debris in the water and the movement looks perfect!!!
If you use the shadow ray node and use that to drive a transparency shader mixed with glass (or a custom water shader) using an inverted normal value, the you can make your object cast caustics as it’s “shadow” too. Good for faking caustics in glass or water… happy to share our shader with you to reverse engineer and post a tutorial for others to learn how to do it.
