Dust Particles+ 1.3 for Blender is here – and it’s 5-10x faster than before. Free update for everyone who already owns it.
We completely rewrote the core rendering logic of Dust Particles+, switching to point-based sprites with virtual UV mapping. Expect massive performance gains for both the Free and Pro versions.
In this video:
- What makes Geometry Nodes particles so powerful
- Why AI-generated motion graphics hit a wall fast
- Dust Particles+ 1.3 features (including 3d presets and BIRBS!) 😀
- The new rendering architecture behind the 1.3 performance gain
Big thanks to Shahzod Boyhonov aka Specoolar for helping us with the virtual UV mapping for point primitives.
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Dust Particles 1.3 Changelog:
Lite & Pro
- Changed from camera-facing planes to points with virtual UV mapping (5-10x faster)
- Scale with bounding box (there was a request to bring that back)
- Transparency variation (in addition to emission variation)
- Dithered alpha option
- Cast shadow option
- Bug fixes and optimisations
- New thumbnails
Pro only
- Custom 3D Objects; birds, bees, flies, moths, leaves, papers, clumps, raindrop – each with its own geometry nodes control in the modifier panel
- Added ‘Use texture color’ option to preserve more varied texture colors on some of the objects (e.g. birds and bees)
- 3D Object deformation options (good for floating bags and underwater stuff)
- Align rotation to direction
- Random rotation amount (should work for 2d and 3d)
- Particles following curves can now be influenced by the curves radius and tilt
