Qleris

Blender add-on · 5.2 LTS

Volute

Procedural volumetric VFX. Tornadoes, rings, portals and jets, built from curves and Geometry Nodes.

96 frames EEVEE 0 simulations 0 bakes 0 cache files

The product

Real-time, because nothing is simulated

Volute builds volumetric effects out of curves and Geometry Nodes. There is no fluid solver, no bake step and no cache on disk. Every layer is evaluated by Blender itself, which means two things you feel straight away: the viewport stays interactive while you work, and a render cannot stall waiting on a simulation.

Between two frames of an animation render, Volute runs no Python at all.

01

Eight base shapes

Funnel, Wedge, Column, Jet, Hourglass, Dust Devil, Ring and Portal. One generator behind all of them.

02

Eight layers

Core volume, dust grains, strands, cloudlets, debris, ground dust, spiral sheets and an emissive glow. Each independent, each switchable.

03

Shaped in the viewport

Profile rings you drag. Radius, height along the path, twist and fine adjustment, all on modifier keys.

04

Colour kept separate

Seven palettes that change colour and nothing else. Try Fire on a look you tuned for smoke without disturbing a density.

05

Freeze and move on

A finished effect moves into its own collection, keeps animating, and frees the workbench. A scene holds as many as your hardware renders.

06

It drives physics

Blender's own force fields follow the path, so cloth, hair, particles and rigid bodies react to the effect.

Details

Requirements

Blender
5.2 LTS or newer
Renderers
EEVEE and Cycles
Dependencies
None. No account, no internet connection.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later
Availability
Coming to Superhive

The full manual — every panel, every layer, with troubleshooting — is in the Volute handbook.

Also from here

GR3SS 3D on YouTube

Blender and EEVEE tutorials in German. Volute grew out of the same work.

Open the channel →

Qleris

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Volute

Procedural volumetric VFX — tornadoes, rings, portals and jets, without a simulation.

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