Guest Tutorial: Simon Fiedler Controlling Swirly Particles

Support us on Patreon: It finally happened our dear friend Simon Fiedler agreed to record a guest tutorial for us. He decided to share one of his production tricks for controlling particles: Building a swirly vector field to advect particles. Although it looks organic and natural, its highly controllable using a few basic vector math hacks. Enjoy 00:00 Intro 00:25 Creating The Guide Geometry 03:37 Building The Velocity Volume 04:04 Theory: Cross Product 06:58 VOPs Math 10:33 Visualizing The Velocity Field 13:20 Spawning Particles 14:01 Customizing Our POPnet 17:55 Animating The Guide Geometry 19:56 Adding Curve Geometry 22:37 Spawning Particles Away From Surface 23:32 Final Words Download Project File: