You're reading from Taking Blender to the Next Level Implement advanced workflows such as geometry nodes, simulations, and motion tracking for Blender production pipelines

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233567

Length 520 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Graphics Programming

Author (1):

Ruan Lotter

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Modeling, Materials, and Animation Workflows

2. Chapter 1: Using Geometry Nodes to Create Dynamic Scenes FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Creating a Motion Graphics Scene Using Geometry Nodes

4. Chapter 3: Organic Modeling P1: Creating a Mushroom

5. Chapter 4: Organic Modeling P2: Creating the Landscape around the Mushroom

6. Chapter 5: PBR Materials: Texturing our Mushroom Scene

7. Chapter 6: 3D Scanning and Photogrammetry: Creating Your Own 3D Scans

8. Chapter 7: Modeling an Alien Cartoon Character

9. Chapter 8: Rigging and Animating Your 3D Cartoon Character

10. Part 2: Let's Do Some Physics

11. Chapter 9: Rigid Body Simulation: Destroying a Statue Using Physics

12. Chapter 10: Dynamic Cloth Simulations

13. Chapter 11: Creating Dynamic Hair Using Particles

14. Part 3: Match Moving and Compositing

15. Chapter 12: Matching Blender's Camera Movement to Live Action Footage

16. Chapter 13: Compositing the Alien Cartoon Character onto the Live Action Footage

17. Chapter 14: The Final Render

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Baking the hair simulation to cache

Once you are happy with your hair simulation, it's time to bake it to cache. Baking your hair simulation to cache will save the animation data so that it won't calculate the simulation every time you play the animation. This will also speed up the viewport animation drastically, so you can preview your animation in close to real time.

Let's get to baking! Perform the following steps:

Select your character in the 3D Viewport.
Click on the Particle Properties tab on the right-hand side of the 3D Viewport.
Expand the Cache section.

Here, you will find all the Cache parameters. It's extremely easy to bake the simulation to cache. We can set the Simulation Start and End frame numbers. Note that you can set a negative number for the Simulation Start frame, which is great if you want your hair to start simulating before the first frame of your animation.

Figure 11.30 – The Cache...