-Cake Particles is an Addon for Blender that lets you Bake your Particles Simulations into Keyframed Objects.
Ver 4.2 supports Blender 4.3++, bake_step, baking multiple selected objects at the same time, cooler panels.
you can grab it here
VER 2.0 supports Bake Step, baking Grease Pencil animated Objects and Metaballs!
(now you can decide how frequently you want to keyframe your simulation!) Video Update 2.0
The Goal is to Simplify some Routines to let People create even more Complex .fbx files with just a few Clicks.
It can also be useful to Incentivate the Built-in Quick Effects and Alembic workflows in Blender.
The Addon is located into the Object Properties for all those People like me that canāt read shit when Pressing N.
*blushing
Emh Emh Thank you, let me know if you run into some troubles
Soon Iāll post some results achieved using this addon, feel free to do the same
Good Morning! Thanks for the lovely addon, it really helps a lot.
Is there a specific trick to baking particle systems with multiple different instance objects?
For example: I Have 9 different objects instanced as a collection in a particle system, but when I attempt to bake with your addon it only bakes one. A workaround I can imagine is dividing particle count by 9, baking each system with a different seed and then combining all outputs. But that is tedious and creates overlaps.
Hello There Constantin Unfortunately at the Moment Collection are not Supported.
For now the Only Possible WorKarounds are the Obvious one.
Now Iāll give a look at the Code to see if through some Changes it can actually Bake Collections.
For Instant Support Instead, the Best Work Around very much Depends on the Number of your Particles.
If you have a Small Number of Particles you can even modify them in Edit Mode. (Deleting the Old Geometry and put the New one in its place)
( you can do it with Great Numbers too but itās very Tricky).
If youāre in a Rush let me know some Details about your Scene
If you were just Playing with the Addon let me come Back to you as soon as Collections are Supported (No timelines for now)
run it into your Editor to Bake all the Objects you like.
Hereās a Small test
As you can See from the video it doesnāt matter if youāre Rendering a Collection or an Object, it Bakes Every Object you keep Selected. this way it will be Very Easy to Actually Implement this Function in to the Addon.
Also, For Now It Kinda Bakes all the Selected Objects in Order. so Depending on your Scene this can look a bit Strange
Let Me know if this Works For you and Stay Tuned for the Next Release where everything will be Button Like
Hey There, thank you for your Feedback! Itās much appreciated, and welcome to the Community, feel free to hit me up if you ever run into some Troubles with it
Sure. I want to Explode the text and reverse the explosion itself to make build effect.
If I use cell fracture and rigid body sim, it takes huge amount of time and too complicated to change some features particle system does. Even if I just flip the animation curves of selected rigid bodies by X*-1 it freakn freezes my computer for 5-10 minutes.
Hi there! Iām not sure from what you say it looks like the Freezing very much depends on the Size of your Simulation!
Iāve tried on my end with a 100 particles or so and it works flawlessly, but i guess it can depend on a lot of different factors!
So Iāve released a more performant version of Cake Particles!
Now you can set a BakeStep that allows you to decide how Frequently it keyframes the Particle Objects!
So for Example a value of 1 will keyframe every frame, a value of 5 will keyframe every 5 frames!
It might be easier for you to use it like this! Bear in mind that it might be a bit Buggy, and nothing beats keyframing every frame! But nonetheless it might speed things up quite a lot!
Iām not sure if CakeParticles can do what youāre asking, but it you want to give it a try
You can find it here
