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Learn to simulate.

Liquids, fire, cloth, particles, rigid bodies and terrain. Open a demo, watch it run, and turn the knobs while it plays.

5 tutorials8 demosevery one stands alone

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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Fire, water and things that fall apart. Each tutorial starts from a new project or one demo, and you shape the result by turning a few settings while it plays. Pick any of them, in any order.

Your torch as the render preview draws it: a tall orange flame rising off the ball, with dark smoke curling away from its tip.

First stepsFirst hour10 min

Light a torch

A torch flame that burns off a small ball, made taller and warmer by you, and drawn the way a final render draws it.

Add a ball
Set it on fire
See it rendered
Make the flame yours

Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →

Gray shards of a broken ball tumbled across the floor.

First steps6 min

Shatter a ball into pieces

A ball that cracks into two dozen shards, which fly apart, tumble and settle on the floor, with a push you can turn up into an explosion.

Add a ball
Break it into pieces
Turn up the push
Make them bounce

Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →

The water mid-slosh in its glass tank, shaded as deep water.

First steps8 min

Break a dam, then turn the water to mud

The first liquid to try, with foam where the water churns: a column of water lets go, slams the far wall and sloshes back. Then you make it thick and slow, and give it more water.

Open the demo
Watch it slosh
Make it thick
Add more water

Starts from the Liquid Dam Break demoRead the tutorial →

Honey pooled thick on the floor of a small glass tank, glossy and amber.

First steps7 min

Drip honey that piles up as it lands

A block of honey let go above a small tank. It stretches into a slow drip and spreads into a heavy amber pile, dropped from the height you choose.

Open the demo
Watch it pile up
Make it thicker
Drop it from higher

Starts from the Liquid Honey Drip demoRead the tutorial →

Water in a glass tank banked up one wall in a spin, throwing drops into the air.

Getting going8 min

Swirl a pool into a whirlpool

A tank of water stirred with no paddle. Gravity leans around in a circle, the water banks into a spin, and you make it swirl faster and splash higher.