How to work with METABALLS | Blender 2.90 | Tutorial

Time stamps:
0:00 - In a Nutshell
0:10 - Intro
0:40 - Where to find Metaballs
1:07 - Adjust Metaballs
3:17 - Behaviour of Metaballs
5:06 - Purpose of Metaballs
6:41 - Downside of Metaballs
7:29 - Résumé
8:05 - outro
#particle #liquid #fluid
Personally I have never heard about Metaballs before. It was just a function in the add panel but I never tried to work with it. I regret this at all because Metaballs are a very interesting and fascinating oportunity for sculpting, fast shaping volume and are a second method beside particles!
Let me know if you have used Metaballs before and do you like this function in Blender?
Cheers

[@kayberfreeman395]

I love meatballs, great tutorial

[@markpeterson1779]

Thanks for the tutorial I didn’t understand the purpose of these until now! Keep up the great tutorials!

[@HippieLongHaired]

Thank You! I came here to learn how to subtract from a meatball and you showed me how!
And, specific to my project, you taught me how to convert a meatball to a mesh object.
Thanks again!

[@kravoh]

I think this is exactly what I needed to model my nucleosome project, can't wait to play with it and geo nodes, thanks!

[@buckyBitBoy]

Gold tip, thanks a lot!

[@adrianobayma1676]

Great tutorial

[@aleksandramorozova5274]

Thank you so much for this. All other tutorials are so fast and complex so I can't keep up with them..You helped soooo much!

[@MarbleHercules]

That negative function is a great feature i dindt know about meatballs. great tutorial.

[@octopusfly]

Excellent presentation.
Thank you for helping me understand metaballs.

[@vivvygipe9605]

Thanks for all this great information! Wish I knew about metaballs sooner, too.

[@artao5]

You CAN tab into edit mode and adjust some properties of the individual metaball elements.
I've found metaballs awesome since the mid-90s, when I first discovered them in POV-Ray.

[@25games]

Thanks :) There is for sure much to learn as well with Metaballs :)

[@zana3d]

Lovely tip! I was wondering how to best do a grease splatter and now I know. Thank you!! Liked and subbed.

[@JonCG]

great Tutorial mate, very informative!

[@_____J______]

What earlier would, for rookie, cost to make week or so of time now it's like 10 min and done
Amazing stuff

[@gre.g]

great vid, helped me a lot

[@bubbletea1985]

that's once spicy metaball

[@Lou-li5mv]

I'm in dire need for a method to add a decimate modifier/flat shader to a metaballs group without converting them to meshes! I've been thinking about using Geonodes since anything else doesn't seem to be possible. Do you know a method?

[@milo20060]

Goo

[@horriblypink]

Is there a way to hide the circular widgets around the meta balls in the view port with out hiding the meta balls?

[@akongas]

Thank you. Do you know if its possible to have a metaball 'cling' to other non-metaball objects?

[@FulguroGeek]

I Love Meatballs!

[@moodlightschannel2921]

great tutorial thank you ! how i can make it floating in space ?

[@marshmelo4832]

maan i love ur accent maan

[@MultiSaded]

Good tutorial, can we create a porous structure with voids and fixed the thickness of this structure we use the geometry metaballs.

[@samuelguerineau7259]

i used both cubes and spheres to make clouds, but now i want my cubic cloud to turn into spheres. is there a way to do so ?

[@thefamicomfan1830]

The Meatballs thing was intentional or really a mistake? xD btw nice vid :D

[@25games]

Hahaha. When I Made my research I hit this issue with the Meatball topic. i wanted to ne funny at the Thumbnail and mention this joke. On YT Thumbnail eveything went finde not at the Blendernation thumb 😂😂😂

[@retroeshop1681]

@@25games hahaha like I said in the Blendernation thumb, man, I laughed really hard, and now more that I know that the thumbnail in the article wasn't intentional xD haha

[@anastasiashopine7808]

someone knows why the metaballs wont show in final render (but will show in the viewport) when doing a fluid simulation with them as an instance object?

[@notahuman-r4j]

Try baking the simulation

[@dero4500]

now i know how stupid I was using base modeling and sculpting to make my models
I waste so many time
thank you

[@jodyyy_surfs]

How can i use the entire cluster in a particle simulator?

[@SavoirPourTous]

Thanks for this tutorial, but it's too quick about the bone with metaball, can you exeplain just for that step by step
Thanks again,

[@25games]

When I have time then I will care about this topic :)

[@SavoirPourTous]

@@25games It's OK, I found but do you have used metaball with rigid body ?

[@readyplayeridk8571]

I always thought they were meatballs 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sogelnation]

Meataballs

[@HandyAndyG]

See. Much better when you do some preparation and self-education before starting. Well done. Cheers.

[@lucutes2936]

are u french