Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this tutorial we’ll be looking at how to make a couple of different shockwave effects with EmberGen’s particle emitter - if you’ve never used it before, jump in now - and find out how easy it can be to get awesome results with surprisingly little work!
Stick around until the end where we’ll go over a couple of extras - animating light sources and adding an animated post effect, to give your animation additional sizzle.
Here's a link to download two EmberGen presets based on the examples in this tutorial: jangafx-software-files.s3.amazonaws.com/share/EmberGen_Shockwaves_Tutorial.zip
00:00 Intro
00:55 Scene Setup
01:34 The Line Force
02:18 Using Falloff
02:48 Volume Processing: Slicing Mask
03:31 Velocity Dissipation
03:58 Continuous Vs Burst Emission
04:58 Particle Emitter - Injection Tab
05:23 Emitter Smoke Vs Combustion Smoke
06:28 Moving Particles with Initial Forces
07:11 Center Position Offset
08:55 We Haven’t Even Used Forces Yet
09:54 Solid Ground
10:41 Different Shaped Emitters
12:26 Adding Extra Particles
13:51 Tip! Aligning Keyframes!
16:51 Making a different shockwave
20:52 Particle Emitter - Using Jitter
21:23 Particle Emitter - Masking Shapes
22:25 Randomize some seed values!
23:35 Adding a Light and Post Effect
24:26 Animating a Light’s Activity & Intensity
25:49 Chromatic Aberration
27:39 Recap & Wrap Up!
In this tutorial we’ll be looking at how to make a couple of different shockwave effects with EmberGen’s particle emitter - if you’ve never used it before, jump in now - and find out how easy it can be to get awesome results with surprisingly little work!
Stick around until the end where we’ll go over a couple of extras - animating light sources and adding an animated post effect, to give your animation additional sizzle.
Here's a link to download two EmberGen presets based on the examples in this tutorial: jangafx-software-files.s3.amazonaws.com/share/EmberGen_Shockwaves_Tutorial.zip
00:00 Intro
00:55 Scene Setup
01:34 The Line Force
02:18 Using Falloff
02:48 Volume Processing: Slicing Mask
03:31 Velocity Dissipation
03:58 Continuous Vs Burst Emission
04:58 Particle Emitter - Injection Tab
05:23 Emitter Smoke Vs Combustion Smoke
06:28 Moving Particles with Initial Forces
07:11 Center Position Offset
08:55 We Haven’t Even Used Forces Yet
09:54 Solid Ground
10:41 Different Shaped Emitters
12:26 Adding Extra Particles
13:51 Tip! Aligning Keyframes!
16:51 Making a different shockwave
20:52 Particle Emitter - Using Jitter
21:23 Particle Emitter - Masking Shapes
22:25 Randomize some seed values!
23:35 Adding a Light and Post Effect
24:26 Animating a Light’s Activity & Intensity
25:49 Chromatic Aberration
27:39 Recap & Wrap Up!
