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Geometry Nodes from Scratch
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  1. 01

    Theory - Basics

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  2. 02

    Example - Rock Generator

Data Structure keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Data Structure

  2. 02

    Example - Simple Rock Scattering

Fields keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Fields

  2. 02

    Example - Advanced Rock Scattering

  3. 03

    Example - Tree Generator

Attribute Propagation keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Attribute Propagation

  2. 02

    Example - Grass Tuft Generator

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Course

Geometry Nodes from Scratch
Basics keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Basics

    Free
  2. 02

    Example - Rock Generator

Data Structure keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Data Structure

  2. 02

    Example - Simple Rock Scattering

Fields keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Fields

  2. 02

    Example - Advanced Rock Scattering

  3. 03

    Example - Tree Generator

Attribute Propagation keyboard_arrow_down
  1. 01

    Theory - Attribute Propagation

  2. 02

    Example - Grass Tuft Generator

Files keyboard_arrow_down
  1. insert_drive_file Low Poly Assets
  2. insert_drive_file Low Poly Example Scene
  3. insert_drive_file Array Tools Free
  4. insert_drive_file Doodle Cloud Free
  5. insert_drive_file Spaceship Generator Free
  6. insert_drive_file Geometry Components Demo

Basics

Theory - Basics

May 16th, 2022

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Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Publisher

You can find a bunch of geometry modifiers to play around with in the 'Files' section of this course.

I encourage you to play around with the Geometry Nodes system a lot to familiarize yourself with the environment.

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20 comments

Jannai Dorando
Jannai Dorando May 20th, 2022

Someone left two heads laying around here, please… people are trying to comment here! Very nice intro to geo-nodes, I'm really exited for the next chapters

Jonathan Hudson
Jonathan Hudson May 20th, 2022

Wow - you just blew my head off!!!!!

Al Sande
Al Sande May 20th, 2022

@Jonathan Hudson It probably landed right beside mine!!!

Nguyen Thanh Duy
Nguyen Thanh Duy May 27th, 2022

One chapter in, and I can't stop playing around in Geo Node

Vincent Palsson
Vincent Palsson June 3rd, 2022

Super cool. Looks very handy :)

Oliver Huynh
Oliver Huynh July 11th, 2022

Very first step of myself into this node world

Cap Amr Karam
Cap Amr Karam Oct. 18th, 2022

Excellent….thanks

Nick Jainschigg
Nick Jainschigg Nov. 20th, 2022

Thanks for this! These tutorials are super useful for the math-challenged among us (looks around nervously hoping there's others here). I should mention that when opening several of the downloaded files in 3.3.1, they're full of "Undefined" errors. Maybe external assets not included in the .blend?

Nick Jainschigg
Nick Jainschigg Nov. 20th, 2022

@Nick Jainschigg Ack! I'm more than merely math-challenged. I didn't notice that the blendfiles were opening in an earlier version of Blender. In 3.3.1, they're fine.

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Nov. 20th, 2022

@Nick Jainschigg no worries, glad it's working in the end and the videos are of help! :)

Kegan Holtzhausen
Kegan Holtzhausen Jan. 3rd, 2023

I dont get to that "data block picker", and no idea how to find it.

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Jan. 3rd, 2023

@Kegan Holtzhausen I'm showing where to find it 40 - 60 seconds into the video. Maybe this is a misunderstanding?

Kegan Holtzhausen
Kegan Holtzhausen Jan. 4th, 2023

At around 1 minute, you click the datablock picker, and have several options, F Move, F Rotate, F Scale and Geometry Nodes. Perhaps this is not what is should be in a clean new project? As I only have "Geometry Nodes"

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Jan. 5th, 2023

@Kegan Holtzhausen Ah, I see the confusion now. This list will show you all the nodegroups that you have available in that file. The ones you see in the video are just simple example nodegroups I created to illustrate that point, but I should probably have explained that in more detail. The nodegroups can be recreated simply with a Transform Geometry node. In the future with full asset integration it will be more straight forward to attach node libraries and select them directly in any file.

Martin Starchel
Martin Starchel July 7th, 2022

Around 6.30 the Move/rotate node u choose from "Group" is gone.... can't find it...any idea why they have removed it?

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes July 7th, 2022

@Martin Starchel these nodes are a simple example of custom nodegroups. They are not actually nodes in blender but simply created by making a node group using the Transform node and only exposing the translation/rotation/scale input.

steve kacenjar
steve kacenjar Nov. 10th, 2022

Hi,  Thank you for this vrey good video but I am getting stuck early in the video.  Specifically,  what is a data-block picker and how do i activate it.  At time frame 1.0 minute into the video you seem to use it to pull down a menu of options in the Add Modifier window that contain such items as Move, rotate (that is to say,, the pull-down under Geometry Nodes only contains Geometry Node without the other pull down options that you show on your video) , ...  When I try doing this, these options do not appear.  Please comment as what I am doing wrong.  Thanks!  PS I am using Blender 3.2.1

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Nov. 10th, 2022

@steve kacenjar The menu you are describing is the datablock picker. The options that show up in that menu are all the nodegroups that you have in the file. The nodegroups are the datablocks that contain the node-tree and can be shared between files. The nodegroups you see in the video are some simple ones I created to show as an example. In this course I'm not going over how to create and use nodegroups, as that is part of more general Blender workflow.

I recommend you check out some of the example files like this one. You can append the nodegroups there into any file and use them there as a modifier by selecting them in the datablock picker.

kaydn
kaydn Aug. 27th, 2023

yall needa update your videos

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Sept. 4th, 2023

@kaydn All the information in these videos is still valid. If you are looking for a video that shows you a step by step guide of achieving something without understanding why this is not it.

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