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Cake Particles (❁´◡`❁)

Bake your Particle Simulations into Keyframed Objects

Feel free to grab it also from the blender extension platform https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/cake-particles/

Cake_Particles_3.0.mp4

Features

Version 4.3 Updates:

  • Moved suggestions to a collapsed panel to unclog UI
  • New Collection system to manage multiple bakes within the same scene
  • Re-Baking implemented (just hit bake again and overwrite the previous collection)
  • Improved fail-safe messages and overall UX

if particles don´t appear to be rotating make sure to enable the "Dynamic" option in the particle settings

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

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: