Here I will be sharing some of the tests I did with taichi_elements which is a multi-material continuum physics engine that works inside of Blender and is coded in taichi.
Currently the Blender implementation is still very experimental/a work in progress.
If you want to try it for yourself and don’t know how to install it you can check this out
I hope that this is just a temporary thing. Maybe there is some kind of a limitation from the Blender side of things that would limit future development? Or maybe the developers are just busy with other things
Maybe in the future when it gets more developed but for now, you can look at this screenshot of the node system (this was for TEST 3) to get the idea of how things work:
Dynamics seem to be a big Blender hole.
I would have preferred that Nodes started with Dynamics instead of Geo, the impact would have been much bigger.
They tried to start with that but didn’t go anywhere (was too ambitious, too early), so they decided to be more “realistic” and go one step at a time starting with GN.
Well, you have to walk before you can run. You need geometry nodes to prepare emitters and colliders. This kind of stuff
Currently, a big missing part of geometry nodes is in the UI for me. There needs to be a way to expose curves or color ramps so that you don’t have to open up the whole geometry nodes graph. Some kind of a visual separator between inputs would also be nice
Thanks did not know that. When i was in Softimage they started ICE with particles dynamics. I wonder it had implications for a more difficult implementation of mograph and geo stuff later.
@koko_ze
This looks sick dude. How does it compare to Manaflow?
Have you seen this person’s real time simulation engine? Any chance y’all could collab? They seem to need the help to further development. Best of both worlds?
Sorry for the confusion but I’m not one of the developers of taichi/taichi_elements. I just play around with it. Yes, I’ve seen this and it does seem pretty cool.
Regarding the comparison between Mantaflow and Taichi_elements it is currently too early. Since Taichi_elements can run on the GPU it should be faster but it also doesn’t currently have a FLIP solver (instead of simulating all of the particles it could simulate them only at the borders) or mesh collisions which makes it a bit unpractical for anything serious at the moment.