Create Stunning Procedural Electricity Effect in Blender- TUTORIAL

My take on the electricity effect in Blender using Dynamic Paint + Shader

Sorry for my weird voice, got a bit sick recently.

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[adalichb]

For those looking to do this tutorial in 4.1 and can't find the "vertex colors", you have to use the "Add Color Attribute" with "Face Corner" and "Byte Color" to achieve the same result as in the tutorial ! o/
Thank you very much Simon, as a total noob to blender, I love your tutorials so thank you VERY much for the knowledge !

[Tylted]

My favorite thing about blender is that it changes so much and so often that following a tutorial only2 years old is damn near impossible :)

[GagmanGra]

For anyone trying to follow this now - everything works ok with the color attributes instead of vertex color. If you're not seeing your brush affecting your canvas at the beginning, set the distance attribute to something below 1.

[SchlaflosDELUXE]

Thank you so much! If you don't find "Vertex Colors" at 1:43 just go to 2:16 and choose the auto-generated "Col" that Blender creates, when you just click at the "Paintmap Layer" box . The same at 3:33 : Just search for "Color Attribute" instead of "Vertex Color". This worked perfectly for me!

[RainFall]

For those having transparency issue in Cycles where broken black meshes are showing
Go to Render Properties>Light Paths>Max Bounces>Transparent and increase the number until its done

[xylvnking]

I know this was about electricity but that quick toon shader blew my noob mind lmao. So useful. Great tutorial, no issues for me in 3.4

[HeduAI]

Thank you!! I am working on a 3D brain simulation where neurons charge up upon reaching their action-potential threshold. This is exactly what I needed!!

[ghennyd]

Hey man, I really appreciate you for uploading your files to be able to look at them. I followed everything in the tutorial and for some reason the very first part woulnd't show the blue paint brush, not sure if it was something I did wrong but I can confirm after downloading the file it does work with the latest update

[florian]

Amazing work and detailed ! Thank you for the share !

[scottlee]

Very nice! I think Blender should move in the direction of interactive animation type stuff, like this!

[rizaljamaludin]

More contents effects please. i really like to learn from you sir. you explanation so clear and easy to understand.

[raxo]

thanks, your tutorials are great, they always have something new and interesting,
please keep sharing your ideas with us

[fatal]

On the 2d version couldn't you make it so the 2d plane of the effect was always parallel with the camera. so no matter how you moved it it was facing the right way to the camera.

[xavierlx]

this was exactly what I was looking for. Hope I can do it.

[timehash]

!! VERTEX COLOR IN BLENDER 3.2 IS CALLED "COLOR ATTRIBUTE" !!

[Yose]

Thank you very much for an interesting tutorial ! Good luck in the development of the channel and 3D skill .

[the_eternal_one]

Thanks a lot for your tutorial!
It really helped me a lot, looks exactly like what i've been loking for

[alexmehler]

thanx man, all your uploaded shader are siiick, thanx this effect here will help me so much !

[SamuelKyber]

Thank you for the tutorial! I'm completely new to Dynamic Paint so this helped immensely.

[Dammyd]

Wow....Really great stuffs....i just came across your channel and i must say i loe every single videos