Learning to Create a River/Water Simulation in Blender: A Beginner Tutorial

a 25 minute guide on how to learn to create a water simulation for your projects! learning how to learn, and how to problem solve your way to a successful project is in my opinion, the key to nice renders.

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00:00 Intro
00:56 Resource One
01:45 Workflow Breakdown
02:44 Modelling
08:47 Physics Properties
11:54 Understanding Materials
14:11 Resource Two
15:07 Applying Materials
19:17 Exporting
19:48 Final Render Water Settings
20:30 Final Render Materials
23:07 Final Render Lighting Setup

[aliosanlou]

Using shade smooth also helps with making the water look more realistic

[ChrysanthosC.]

I wish all tutorials were like this! <3

[Vospi]

Great looking result, happy to see YouTube pushing you to my feed.

20:56 1) The color ramp currently does not give you a gradient, but instead just gives you the middle value between the two colors (cause factor is set to 0.5). If you want your water to have all these colors somewhere, you need to plug something into the factor, so it varies between 0 and 1. It can be location, texture, noise texture, different things.

2) If you're interested in making some lights exactly true to life (in terms of color) instead of using hsv or rgb, you can use a blackbody node. It allows you to just specify Kelvins. Of course you did a stylized thing (and it looks great), but still a nice thing to know.

Good luck!

[LuzDeLuna_]

Thank you so mucho for sharing with us your video!! I am a newbie un Blender 😅

[FilmSpook]

Many Thanks, Lana, you're Awesome!!

[sarahbrg]

Omg mercii, thank you so much for this tutorial. <3

[krissosful]

Absolutely fantastic simulation, keep going👏👏

[rafaelabins]

Hi, can you make a video about render settings? Love the way you explain things

[thuannguyenhoangm]

Why am I do the same as tutorial but after when I hit the "bake all" (10:00), nothing happens :< pls help me

[anajuliamignone]

Hi! I need some help overhere :( The tutorial is perfect, but I´m having an issue with my computer and I can`t figure out what is wrong. I am doing the same exact steps as Lana (I mean the same geometry, same physics, same settings...even same names). When I bake the cache, everything looks good; the bar underneath says that the baking was succesfully done, BUT once it is done, it doesn´t work. When I hit play on the preview, nothing happens. I mean, when in the tutorial you can see that the domain disapears and "tranforms into the water", well... that does not happen. The file is generated and saved in the project file, and the baking is done correctly, but I can`t see any results. I coudn´t find an answer online :(