How to Electricity in Blender 2.9

In this video we look at an alternate approach to creating some electric effects in Blender still using the addon ivy generator as our starting point, but unlike in the previous electric fx tutorial we will convert the curves into a mesh and work from there.

12 procedurally animated(mesh) and 12 keyframed electric fx(curves)

[vantablacknl]

for those making 3d loops animating an empty should always one on 0-360 (or 720 or any full circle value) and for interesting variety you can set empty to follow a path of a bezier circle and animating an offset to 0-100 for an endless loop

Also thanks for the tutorial this is so much easier than other lightning tuts

[ThePolygonPusher]

I always pick up something new from your videos!

[woody]

each time i thought it was done, you kept improving it lol. amazing video, helped a lot thx.

[LittleFellaDynamics]

This looks absolutely amazing! Very much looking forward to learning the technique and applying it to my project... perfect 👌💯👀🎥😎🌟

[john-El]

Briliant use of the tools in blender! Thanks for the tutorial!!

[jenovaizquierdo]

Dude are you for real, That intro was awesome man. Your tutorial are really good man.. keep up with your awesome tutorial man. 👍🏼

[Gazing-]

Damn... You are my go to channel when it comes to FX!

[crazydescent]

Great effect..using the Ivy generator is brilliant

[AlexisRiveraD]

Thank you, I'll be using your technique in my LEGO Trailer

[robertsontirado]

This is amazing, but I have to much to do so I bought your FX pack which is just amazing.

[waltervolbers]

thanks for sharing, so it is much better to control,
had tried with geometrynodes but it gets too messy, your approach gives more control how it should look.

[Zhincore]

2005 called, they want their youtube intro back xD useful video tho! and really impressive transitions! Thank you

[powersprouter]

LOVE it, thank you. I'm gonna do this, this is great.

[LaurenceSouthDrumsUK]

i've made it to 10:00 - my lightning is moving way too fast, I have tried to increase the scale for all of the shape keys but it is not working, help

[LaurenceSouthDrumsUK]

I am stuck at 6:30 on this video. When trying to move the ivy it stretches the object and does not allow me to move it the way you are, any ideas?

[shanabenjamin]

Brilliant man! Which country are you from? Asking as i am looking for 1 on 1 lessons and we may be in the same time zone. I am in South Africa. Hit me up if you can do real time lessons and let me know your fee.

[vanshthakur]

im not able to find the generator option in the animation area...when i open animation the graph editor doesn't open but i have to manually bring it through the drop sheet drop bar which im guessing is messing things up?

[rixochixo]

@6:16 How do you select the individual ray of lightning? tried ALT-SHIFT, but that didn't work. This would help tremedously. Thank you!

[pyricpictures]

This is a bit of a weird question but 6:17 how do you rotate the branches and how did you select the vertices of the branch without selecting the whole thing

[temporblx]

why did u timelapse this its so hard to see what your doing