Fluids, particles and destruction across every app
Simulation is where 3D gets its magic — and the right solver saves days of work. This collection gathers capable simulation tools across Blender, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max and After Effects, covering liquids and oceans, smoke and fire, cloth, muscle and full-scene rigid-body destruction. Whether you're splashing product shots or leveling a city, start here.
11 hand-picked plugins
by RLGUY
FLIP Fluids is a liquid simulation addon for Blender that lets you set up, run, and render high-quality liquid effects. Its custom FLIP-based engine has been in development since 2016 with tight Blender integration.
by VjaceslavT
Simply Cloth Studio 2 is a cloth creation and simulation add-on for Blender, rebuilt for Blender 5.0 with a modern interface, an adaptive wrinkle recognition system, and performance improvements, alongside tools for pinning, sewing, and cloth presets.
by BeFX Studios
RBDLab is a VFX and simulation addon for Blender, developed by BeFX Studios for rigid body and destruction work. It ships with documentation and free updates, and holds a 5-star rating from 70 reviews.
by Physical Addons
Physical Open Waters - Ocean is a Blender add-on from Physical Addons for infinite ocean simulations, offering advanced LOD stability and dynamic wave interactions. It renders in both Cycles and Eevee.
by naelstrof
Jiggle Physics adds stretchy jiggle physics to Blender rigs. A fork of the Wiggle 2 add-on by shteeve3d, it uses a verlet solver with simple 0-1 parameters to animate anything from soupy ropes to immovable rods.
by k44dev Software
X-Muscle System is a physics-based tissue simulator add-on for Blender, built for creating muscular systems, tissue and organic objects and running physical simulations that visualize skin surface deformations based on volume preservation of muscles, fat and bones.
by Chaos
Chaos Anima brings lifelike 3D and 4D characters and moving crowds into Cinema 4D. It populates architectural scenes with crowds and traffic, drawing on a library of over 4,000 people models and a growing collection of animated urban vehicles.
by Next Limit
Next Limit RealFlow is a fluid simulation tool that works with Cinema 4D via free connectivity plugins. Fluid sims are built in RealFlow, then exported to your 3D platform, with GPU acceleration to speed calculations.
by Sitni Sati
Sitni Sati FumeFX is a fluid dynamics plugin for Cinema 4D built for simulating and rendering realistic fire, smoke, explosions and other gaseous phenomena using voxel-based, physics-driven simulation.
by Craft Animations
Craft Director Studio is an animation plug-in for 3ds Max that lets you hook up to a model and drive vehicles and aircraft through 3D environments, adjusting variables like suspension and adding camera effects.
by Motion Boutique
Motion Boutique Newton is a 2D physics engine for After Effects that turns 2D layers into simulations of real-world objects. Adjust density, friction, bounce, and gravity, then refine results with editable keyframes.
