Creating a paint simulation
Creating a basic Dynamic Paint simulation is a little tricky to set up, so let’s create one together and go over the process! To make things easier to understand, I recommend downloading the Paint Startup.blend
file here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Blender-Simulations/tree/main/Chapter%2012%20Project%20Files.
This file includes a basic animation of a sphere following a curve on a plane:

Figure 12.9 – The Paint Startup.blend example
Let’s start out by adding a Dynamic Paint simulation to the plane and the sphere object!
- Select the Plane object and head over to the Physics panel. Select Dynamic Paint, make sure Type is set to Canvas, and then click on Add Canvas:

Figure 12.10 – Adding the Canvas object
- Let’s do the same thing for the Sphere object, except let’s set Type to Brush and click Add Brush!
- Even though we have a brush...