EmberGen Tutorial: Nuclear Explosion

Get to your shelters!

In this video we’re looking at how to make a large nuke detonation, complete with a flash of light and the resulting mushroom cloud. We’ll be using two particle emitters, a point force, and whole lot of smoke..

You can download the preset created in this video right here, and there’s also another included that’s pretty similar but might be useful to you if you’re interested in tearing down the node graph: https://jangafx-software-files.s3.ama...

City Block Model available from SketchFab - this is the one that Ben used in this video and was created by Mateusz Wolinski:
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/city-...

[timestamps]

01:04 - Adding a Particle Emitter [Bomb]
01:30 - Particle Direction & Speed
03:07 - Adding Second Particle Emitter [Ground]
03:58 - Frozen Particles
05:50 - Adding a Point Force Node
07:26 - Using Velocity Dissipation
09:05 - Using Vorticity To Break Things Up
11:18 - Animating Velocity Dissipation
12:27 - Using The Volume Slicing Mask
13:23 - Combustion Extinction Smoke Gain FTW!
14:15 - Adding Line Forces to Influence Shape
18:26 - Temperature Dissipation
21:28 - Adjusting Smoke Weight
22:13 - Adding a Strong Flash of Light
23:24 - Adding some Small-Scale Noise
24:16 - Hey, About That Ground Particle Emitter…
26:53 - Recap!
28:22 - Wrap-up!