Thank you for work and now the guide.
I'll down load a build and give it a try. :)

Thank you! Great work!

Thanks!!

It seems really, really good!!!

Oh WOW, thanks a lot for the nice guide. I'll try it out right now!

Great guide Mikaa. Thank you!

I dont know what else would you add , keep going! great job! THANKS!!!

Thanks Mikah for doing this complete guide!!

Great work Miikah!! But I have a few suggestions for improvements.
1. Is it possible to make the effects as modifiers so that you can combine different effects to a final effect?
2. Wouldn't it be more logical to have dynamic paint at the same place as where you bake AO and such?
3. Allow more Anti-aliasing than 5x.

@Tobias
1. You can already stack effects. Just enable "Do Effect" on multiple ones.
2. I have to look into that. I have never baked render stuff before. :p
3. I don't think that's worth the effort. After all it's just a texture. You barely notice whether AA is on or not. xP

Thank you so much for the tutorial.
I got a request for myself and others.
Would it be possible to get a video tutorial of the above? That way we can watch it on TV/Xbox/Playstation and follow along? Many of us (myself included) have to see it to actually "get it."

Exelent work, hope that this project reach the blender trunk!

this is fantastic work and great documentation! on a side note do you think the fantastic dynamic paint algorithm could be used as a way mightier dilate/erode node in the compositor? that would rock so much

cheers

that is amazing and so easy to use u are the best

Amazawesome! Thanks for the good work, man!

Hey Miikah,
thanks alot!! This is really an awsome feature! I am looking forward and hope this will get integrated soon in the main branch!
It would be great if every feature in blender will be so well documented!! Thanks again!
Keep it up! I am looking foward to your future work!

nice stuff,
how about this case: Drying liquid which is leaving traces with more
color on the beginning and to the end. Second, the wind thats moving
pixels where it can reach them and move less in the areas with for example are some cracks.

each thing simulating for few minutes in the loop. This should be really
interesting.

oh, and of cause for the liquid Spreading-Dripping-Shrinking simultaneously =D
sorry for spamming ;)

Very nice effects, and a straightforward tutorial. Thanks!

Thank you so much Miika!

It is the best way to show off a technology, concept!

Can anyone explain why does my canvas object turns black when i render with wetmaps.
Here's the picture:
http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll175/rockzen97/problem.jpg

@blurdude

Either uncheck Color influence or click that "RGB To Intensity" box. Then color brightness will be used as texture affect strength.

@MiikaH

Thanks a lot for the help :D I really appreciate it.
Maybe you can improve ur tutorials by adding "DOs and DON'Ts". Overall its an awesome tutorial. :D

Until a better demo blend is available, this bare bones file correctly demonstrates the basic feature for me.
http://www.meloware.com/bbb/dympaint_demo.blend

Niiiiiiice! The shrinking looks like a lot of fun :D

Just trying to get a snowball rolling down the side of a hill, using your Dynamic Paint 1.8 patch, and getting some weird artifacts - like square outlines...
(displacement map):

http://users.xplornet.com/~gimble/dispmap0100.png
http://users.xplornet.com/~gimble/dp_issue.png

If I do a fairly "flat", ie no hills; it seems to work ok, but for my mountainous mesh I get the above issue.

thanks for everything

@gimble

You mind posting a blend file where this happens? So I can check out what's going on there.

Here's the blend (~7.8 MB):

http://users.xplornet.com/~gimble/test_dp_03.blend

I forgot to mention that I'm using Ubuntu 64 bits,
and your patch 1.08 applied against svn r32970.

I tried again on a somewhat simpler mesh and it
seemed to work fine:
(except for the "trench" slightly leading the sphere)

http://users.xplornet.com/~gimble/test_dp3.avi

Hopefully, I'm not making some silly obvious mistake.

@gimble

Ok, I'll check that out.

About that "trench slightly leading the sphere" issue: It was a bug in SVN version -> wrong default "start frame" for image sequences. It has been fixed in recent SVN.
How to fix that, just set sequence "Start" value to 1 instead of 0. :)

@gimble

It was a quite special bug. If canvas had more than 32.767 vertices those "holes" started to emerge.

But now it's fixed: http://www.miikah.org/blender/snowball.jpg

Thanks alot for reporting it! I will post an updated patch and builds tomorrow.

Thanks MiikaH for the help and all your hard work.
Your latest demo looks really nice.

I can't get the Mirror or alpha to work under influence ,with the wet maps. I clicked RGB to intensity ,changed settings all day.

Remember to enable "Transparency" and "Mirror" from material settings. (You can just set material "Alpha" and "Reflectivity" to zero.)

Thanks, I just now got the mirror to work. I think this is the best tool I've seen in a time. I can think of so many uses.
Can a person use the spread with a texture without stepping? (I think that is the correct word) Re create the pattern evenly.?
Thanks again

Oh I got that to . put alpha over a texture and remove it with spread paint.

I love this work.
It can be used for so many cool things! More things than it was even intended to be used for because it has so many options...!
Simply Brilliant.

Hello Mikah, Awesome work, that's really great.
Can you please upload the blendfile of the Mesh Volume + Proximity example. The one with the fluid on the stone. I'd like to study it, thanks

umm, when i use openexr for a displacement map, it comes out darker then the if i use png, and it doesnt work with openexr format properly. works fine with png but.

@blazraidr:
What version and OS you're using?

I fixed that kind of bug months ago. Just tested with latest SVN on Windows 32/64-bit and it works fine.

So either you are using a very old version of Dynamic Paint or it's something OS related. :p

oh yes, my rev is 32013, an old version i guess. I'll try the latest rev, though its probably my fault for using an old build.

Thanks very much for all 'Dynamic Paint' features and also for the Guide. I appreciate it must have been quite a bit of work. Hope to see this in Blender and the Wiki soon. :)

This is amazing, you are very talented and generous. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

hi, how come I can't see everything that's in the advanced settings?

I use blender 2.6 build from your site and windows 7 64bit.

nevermind, I was looking at the wrong menu


PS: Wohoo! first post of 2011

would it be possible for you to post the .blend for the rain simulation.
think your work is fantastic by the way keep it up.
thanks
Miikah.

Hi Miikah,

I just stumbled across your youtube channel and found your really great emitting light example of dynamic paint...could you give a small explanation how you did that? Or even post the blend? Btw.: I really think that your documentation is very good - should be more often that developers point out, how there piece of code is intended to work! I realy appreciate your effort!

Thank you so much! Thomas

They really need to implement this in the official blender.

wow this is so amazing. wish i had known about this a long time ago. they should include this with the next release of blender.

Awesomeness!!!

Great Work. Thanks for sharing

Wow ! i really enjoy playing with Dynamic Paint but with the new velocity options, as in release 39089 for Linux x86_64, waves don't display anymore. They are there but don't produce the visual effect on the material.
It happens with my blend files and also with Miika http://www.miikahweb.com/other/blender/dynamic_paint_waves.blend

What am i doing wrong ?

@Pep

Oh, that's a bug on latest version. Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it right away!

With release 39115 it works again!
Thanks for your impressive work :)

Hi miikaH..dynamic painting is amazing. I'm more into vfx. its very useful for that purpose. I tried to replicate one of your demo videos; that is selecting material object option for the paint mesh. Then i applied blender logo image as texture to it. when i baked it and rendered blender logo image texture didn't show up. only defalut material colour rendered. could be generous to tell me what went wrong?

Hey miikaH,
Great stuff.

I could not get the wetmap to work. When I bake the wetmap to a PNG all the images are black.

I'm running 2.60.4 ver 41975.

Thanks!

Hello,
you explained the options very good and have nice examples, but i miss a general step-by-step tutorial on how to set up everything. It's not easy for a beginner like me to get it working.

[please pardon my english] Great site and tutorial...synthetic and completed both! You're so crazy!
I'm trying smoke painting but i have not understand what do you say for "To paint with smoke, you just have to use the smoke domain as a paint object. Just remember that domain has to have a renderable volumetric material."
Could you explain, please?
CIAO
Stefano

Hi,

why did you close the sample blend files? I actual like to see them. Is there a way?

greatings, Stephan.

just getting around to checking out dynamic paint and it is AWESOME!

Hi,
Since Bmesh merge(44245) DP generates a black canvas, no matter what color material is set. Is that a known bug ?