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Make it rain

Make it rain - Blender Tutorial

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Make it rain

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- [Instructor] Let's say you wanted to generate rain inside of Blender. How would you do it? Well in this week's Blender's tips, tricks, and techniques, I'll show you just how. First, you want to delete this cube. So let's just hit X and delete and let's make sure that we're in Cycles. Shift+C to make sure we're at center. And let's add a monkey. Let's also add a plane, move it up a little bit, and scale it just a tad and let's add a sphere. Now, with the t panel open, I want you to switch the segments down to eight and the rings down to eight. And let's move the sphere over here and then turn on smooth shading. Reason why we set it to eight is that when we generate all of the particles, they won't be super heavy spheres. Okay, so now let's open up our particles tab and make a new particle system. And I'm going to set it to say 10,000 so I'll just add another zero. I'll set my end to the actual end. My lifetime to 250 as well. And I'm going to leave everything else pretty much on…

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