SOL

SOL — Ready-to-Use Particle Presets for Blender

by CLOUDY SKY

Beautiful particle effects usually mean hours of wiring nodes, tuning physics and fighting the compositor. SOL turns
that into a single click. Pick a preset, drop it on any object, and you instantly get a great-looking effect — then
keep full, live control over every detail.

Best of all, SOL is not a black box: it builds everything on Blender's native particle system, so what you get is a
real, editable Blender setup you can push as far as you want.

⚡ 8 One-Click Presets

• 🔥 Sparks — Hot sparks that shoot out and fall under gravity. Welding, grinding, impacts.
• ✨ Magic — Cold magical sparkles that drift and rise. Spells, enchantments, fantasy FX.
• 🔥 Fire — Glowing embers rising by convection. Campfires, torches, burning debris.
• 🎆 Fireworks — A multicolor spherical burst that explodes, slows and falls glowing (burst mode).
• ⛲ Fountain — A continuous golden jet that fans upward and rains back down.
• 🐝 Fireflies — Warm points of light floating and twinkling in zero gravity. Forests, night scenes.
• 🌟 Stardust — Cold, multicolored star-shaped sparkles drifting weightlessly. Space, dreams, magic dust.
• 🌫️ Dust — Atmospheric floating dust that catches the light (The Last of Us intro vibe) — the only light-reactive,
  diffuse preset.

🎛️ Full Control, Non-Destructive

• Per-object effects — each mesh stores and edits its own effect. Duplicate freely; effects never bleed into each
  other.
• Live editing — every slider updates in real time.
• Editable color palette per object — gradient by particle age, or a random color per particle.
• Varied particle shapes — themed mesh sets per preset for a richer, less "CG" look.
• Velocity & size control — drift velocity, per-axis XYZ velocity, and min/max particle size.
• Emission timing — start/end frame per object, in Continuous or Burst mode.

✨ Built-In Glow & Compositing (Cycles)

• One-click compositor Glow: Bloom, Streaks and Ghosts, each with full settings.
• "Particles only" isolation — make only your particles bloom, not the whole scene.

🌀 Forces, Domains & Guide Curves

• Local forces — Wind, Force, Vortex, Turbulence, Drag, Magnetic — that affect only this effect's particles, isolated
  so they won't disturb the rest of your scene.
• Domain boundary — a box or sphere that kills particles when they leave it.
• Guide Curve — make particles follow a path, with Force and Spread controls.

🚀 Workflow Helpers

• Bake the simulation to scrub the timeline and render without recalculating.
• Show/Hide emitter toggle and a Clear Cache button.
• Clean panel in the 3D Viewport N-panel, with tooltips on every control.
• Multilingual UI — English with a built-in Spanish translation that follows Blender's interface language.

✅ Compatibility

• Blender 4.2 and up — installs as a modern Extension.
• Optimized for Cycles; also works in EEVEE via Principled emission.
• Windows, macOS (Intel & Apple Silicon) and Linux.