You're reading from Learn Blender Simulations the Right Way Create attractive and realistic animations with Mantaflow, rigid and soft bodies, and Dynamic Paint

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803234151

Length 368 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Animation

Author (1):

Stephen Pearson

Preface

1. Part 1: Using Mantaflow for Fire, Smoke, and Fluids

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Mantaflow FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Domains, Flows, and Effectors

4. Chapter 3: Creating a Realistic Campfire Simulation

5. Chapter 4: Creating a Waterfall Using Mantaflow

6. Chapter 5: Creating a Realistic Explosion

7. Part 2: Simulating Physics with Soft Bodies and Cloth

8. Chapter 6: Getting Started with Soft Bodies

9. Chapter 7: Creating a Soft Body Obstacle Course

10. Chapter 8: Introduction to Cloth Simulations

11. Chapter 9: Creating a Realistic Flag

12. Part 3: Diving into Rigid Bodies

13. Chapter 10: An Introduction to Rigid Bodies

14. Chapter 11: Creating a Rigid Body Physics Course

15. Part 4: Understanding Dynamic Paint in Blender

16. Chapter 12: Introduction to Dynamic Paint

17. Chapter 13: Creating a Paintbrush Effect

18. Chapter 14: Creating a Raindrop Effect

19. Index

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating the water material

There are two materials that we need to create, water and raindrop materials. Let’s create the water material first:

Select the canvas object, and head over to the Shading workspace at the top. Create a new material by clicking the New button.
Name this material Water so that it’s easy to find later.

Figure 14.20 – The material name

Set Base Color in the Principled BSDF shader node to a nice dark blue. If you want to use the same color I’m using, the hex code is #274C7A.
To make the lake glossy and reflective, set Roughness to 0.
Finally, set Transmission to 1 to give the glass look and IOR to 1.333. IOR stands for Index of Refraction. This is basically how light passes through objects. In this case, the IOR of water is 1.333. There is also a long list of other IOR values for different real-life materials, which you can reference here: https://pixelandpoly.com/ior.html...