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Add

Model from a photo, or import .glbfile

Layout

Shading

Animation

Rendering

Modeling

Sculpting

UV Editing

Scene · Local GPU (WebGPU), no server cost

Orientation

Pivot

Properties

StatusRunning

ViewUser

Sim time0.0s

SelectedNone

Empty scene: a grid floor, a light and a camera.

Model something from a photo with Import, or add the pan-and-butter thermal demo from the Add menu.

Light and camera settings live in the Properties editor’s Data tab (bottom right).

Drag to orbit · Scroll to zoom · Click to select · G/R/S to transform · 0 for camera view

Camera

Object Data · Light

Temperature

Color

Power

Radius

Size

Spot Size

Blend

Influence

Diffuse

Specular

Reference · Photo to model

Choose a photo or .glb

Mode

Keep more

Features

Cleanup

No photo imported yet.

Render

Engine

WebGPU realtime raster

Anti-alias

4× MSAA

Shading

Solid

Exposure

Highlights roll off through a film curve instead of clipping, so a bright surface keeps its shading rather than going flat white. Lower the exposure if a render is washing out — that’s the camera control, not a reason to dim the lamp.

Output

Resolution

FPS

Length (s)

Bitrate (Mbps)

Motion blur

Sub-frames

Shutter

Offline rendering steps the simulation by exactly 1/fps per frame instead of by however long the frame took, so it drops nothing, runs at any resolution regardless of the window, and renders the same scene identically twice. It all still runs on your own GPU — “offline” means not realtime, not on a server.

Sub-frames are motion blur: the shutter is open for part of a frame, so each output frame is several renders taken across that window and averaged. 8 is roughly 8× the render time.

Live capture

Records the viewport at playback speed — quick, but limited to the window’s resolution and it drops frames if the solver falls behind.

Scene

Active camera

Camera

Frame rate

30 fps

Sim time

0.0 s

Units

Scene units are metres. The pan is 2 m across — deliberately larger than life so the fixed-resolution fluid grid has enough cells across the melt area to resolve it.

World

Background

Environment light

Ground plane

Shadows

Shadow softness

Shadows are drawn in Rendered only. The other modes light the scene with a fixed studio setup rather than your lamp, so a shadow there would be describing a light that isn’t being used.

Environment light is the second light in your scene, and on a polished surface it is the only one that matters — a mirror has no colour of its own, so a chrome object is a picture of the room it’s standing in. The room here is a procedural studio: a hard horizon, one softbox above, two strip lights at the sides. Those hard edges are what make metal read as metal; a smooth gradient environment reflects as a smooth gradient and looks like grey plastic.

Physics · Grid fluid solver

Nothing is being simulated. Add the thermal demo from the Add menu to see these do something.

Burner heat

Stiffness

Rest mass

Gravity

Damping

Avg melt

Newton’s cradle

Balls

Ball radius

String length

Release angle

Swing period

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The motion is the exact pendulum solution — θ″ = −(g/L)·sin θ solved in closed form, not integrated and not approximated. The familiar 2π√(L/g) is only the small-angle limit of it and runs about 1.5% fast at 28°, 7% at 60°; over a few seconds that is a visible drift in the timing of the clicks. Because it is a function of time rather than an accumulating simulation, scrubbing backwards works and re-rendering a frame gives identical pixels.

The middle balls not moving isn’t a shortcut — it’s what an idealised cradle does. Momentum passes through them at the instant both end balls are at the bottom.

Water

Pour

water source active

Rate

Initial speed

Mouth radius

Liveliness

Surface tension

Surface friction

Resolution

Live particles

—

The pour collides with whatever you have modelled: the scene’s meshes are sampled into a signed distance field when the source is switched on, and the water reads that. Obstacles are treated as static for the duration — move one and press Re-read obstacles.

Drag the Water source object with G to aim the stream. The solver is weakly compressible rather than a true pressure projection, so a deep standing pool will look slightly springy; a falling, splashing, spreading pour is where it is honest.

Surface

Reconstruct

continuous surface

Particles

show underlying particles

Blob radius

Threshold

Detail

Mesh

—

Blob radius and threshold trade blobbiness against separation: a large radius with a low threshold fuses everything into one puddle, a small radius with a high threshold keeps droplets apart. Detail is the sampling cell size — smaller is finer and costs more CPU per rebuild.

Stiffness and rest mass are the first two to retune if the puddle looks too stiff/jittery (lower stiffness or raise rest mass) or too runny (raise stiffness). The velocity clamp in the grid-force pass is the safety net if it blows up.

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