I created a complete course based on thinkingParticles. I used the last Drop9, with 3ds max 2021. I will showcasing the basics in tP, until an intermediate level and some new feautres in 3dsmax, in any scenario using specific new tools I will showcase how to do it in older […]

Everything started on this tutorial about creating temperature in TP. Creating a data channel where new information is writed over time depending on the distance to an object to create a temperature system. Last week I create an animation with a fan where this data channel was used to control deformed geometry depending on […]

Hi! here again with more R&D. I always wanted more control about group change over time in TP, so I decided to test it. My goal was to do a random group change (the typical workflow, a random value per particle and per call from 0 to 100, and after […]

I discovered recently the Conway-s Game of Life, a celullar automaton created by matemathician John Horton Conway during 1970 to recreate natural celullar behaviours. You can found full information about it here. Basically consist on a grid with a series of rules, you give an initial input and following the specific […]

A little overview in how to align an object in Thinking Particles to compensate a ball over him so never fall down. This video is based on this cool video from kosolax, that at the same time is based in this ICE video  from Danil Krivoruchko. I was very curious how to create the […]

Thinking Particles bullet physics tutorial and scene. Hi! Today in Montreal we have a snow storm, so I pass the day in my house looking some vimeo videos. I found this popcorn effect from Toufik Mekbel  done it with pflow toolbox2. So I decided to do the same effect with TP and share with […]

In this tutorial you will learn how to control particle size based on distance to specific geometry. It’s based on this tutorial from Anselm Van Seherr, done it with pflow toolbox3, check also his other very cool tutorials. We will do the same with TP5. Let’s start with a basic plane (Where our […]

If you ever tried to use a volumebreak on a geometry with deformation (animated character for example) you will see that volumebreak doesn’t retain deformated geometry information. Instead you can use fragment node, this node can read deform geometry, but straight of the box has not the same visible break […]