scaryplasmon/cakeparticles

Blender Addon to Bake Particles as Keyframed Objects

Cake Particles (❁´◡`❁)

Bake your Particle Simulations into Keyframed Objects

Cake_Particles_3.0.mp4

Features

Version 3.0 Updates:

• Added support for Blender 4.0
• added Randomizer for Grease Pencil animations

Version 2.5 Updates:

• Improved Bake_Step
• Prettier Interface
• Added an extra panel to edit your frames after baking
• Built structure to develop a more complex addon further down the line
• Code more user-friendly (less gibberish)

Version 2.1.2:

• Fixed bug with Blender 3.6.2++
• To bake multiple different objects, just select them, while clicking the Emitter active and click bake

Version 2.0:

• Supports Bake Step and the Baking of Animated Grease Pencil Objects + Metaballs!
• Supports baking Different Objects as Particles

Using the BakeStep, you can choose to keyframe only every N number of frames!

Examples

See it live on Sketchfab

Cyberpunk Game VFX

Stylized animation

Bake Particles into Keyframed Objects

This feature creates a new collection with your particle objects in it. Useful for:

• Drive the motion of a storm of objects with particles
• Transfer the motion from particles to any object in blender
• Export simulations as .fbxs
• Fluid Simulations
• Explosion Simulations (Particle System)
• Particles Export into .fbx files

Troubleshooting:

People reported problems when updating to Blender 4.0++ If you also can´t see the addon when installing the .zip file just unzip the file and install the .py file directly from the add-on prefences tab.

Old but useful Tutorial

Watch the Tutorial

Documentation

• Blender Artists Documentation
• Google Sites Documentation

if u wanna tip my work

Gumroad page

Developed for Blender 3.0+, but it should work on previous versions as well. Ignore the warning message during installation.

Acknowledgements

Cake Particles would've not been possible without a big help from all the developers who posted their answers at these links in the past:

• StackExchange
• BartSketchfab
• Blender Stack Exchange

cakeparticles's Issues

doesn't work on 3.4.1

as title