Kaboom

Kaboom is a Blender add-on designed to simplify the creation of spectacular destruction animations. It offers a range of tools to fracture objects, simulate dynamics, and add visual effects like particles and smoke.

Key features:

  • Fracture Objects:
    • Fracture Modes: Choose from ‘Own particles’, ‘Child Particles’, ‘Own Vertices’, ‘Child Vertices’, or ‘Grease Pencil annotation’ to fracture selected objects.
    • Adjustable Shard Properties: Control the scale proportions and number of shards.
    • Fracture Results: View and manage fractured groups in the Fractured Group List.
  • Fractured Groups List:
    • Group Management: Edit group names, select group objects, delete groups, and restore source objects.
    • Flags: Indicators show if a group is baked, has debris particles, or includes smoke particles and fluid modifiers.
    • Rough Cut: Create roughed cuts to shard interiors, with options to bake or convert to mesh.
  • Simulation:
    • BLAST Simulation: Add a blaster tool to the scene to simulate explosions with options for radial force, directional force, and spin. Adjust core radius and dynamic range.
    • KRUMBLE Simulation: Add dynamic activation keyframes to the active group shards at the current frame.
  • Rigid Bodies:
    • Rigid Body Editing: Add breakable or fixed constraints, update strength values, remove constraints, update mass, and set objects to passive dynamic rigid bodies.
  • Baking Simulation to Keyframes:
    • Bake Simulations: Bake all fractured groups to keyframes, enabling further editing or the addition of particles.
  • Particles and Smoke:
    • Particle Systems: Add debris particles using a “Parts Collection” for instances. Adjust emission parameters, copy settings, and manage particle visibility.
    • Smoke Emission: Add smoke effects to fractured groups, with options for emission intensity and animated turbulence fields.
    • Fluid Parameters: Apply fluid settings to all objects within a fractured group.