Kaboom is an add-on that assists in the creation of destruction animations, explosions, and crumbling effects. The workflow is divided into six steps, starting with fracturing manifold models. You can also import pre-fractured models. The add-on uses boolean operations for this step.
After fracturing, you can animate the dynamics triggering in real-time, allowing for adjustments until the desired crumbling or explosion effect is achieved. The dynamics animation is then baked to keyframes. Kaboom includes a tool to generate rough cuts on the flat faces produced by the initial fracturing, adding realism to the simulated pieces.
The add-on generates particle debris exclusively on moving parts, using a default mesh collection or custom meshes. Debris settings can be customized on a single particle system and deployed to all others. Kaboom also handles smoke generation by creating emitter particles and a smoke domain. Both debris and smoke settings utilize native Blender functionalities.