Thank you. I started work on this video in 1987 (This was roughly 10 days work. I decided to make it more accessible about halfway through the edit so this meant I had to redo some of the node animation. The longest part is always the writing, which I do twice - at the very start of the process before I animate anything and then a rewrite with the finished edit)

@@harryblends 1987 hhh, thats about 40 years --- very good job.

It’ll be messy until you’ve added more nodes. There’s a link to the blender file in the description if you want to jump to the end. It’s on my patreon but free

@harryblends thank you, ok so lets continue (will try it on my own and go to your patreon after i fail😉)

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Thank you. Glad you appreciated my pace

Thank you

Thank you!

Ha. Your title sounds like a nasty smoothie accident

@@harryblends fair :D

Yes! ALWAYS save before baking

Thank you! 👽

Thank you. One day I’ll document all the techniques I use in these videos. But - it’s really just a ton of planning, editing and tiny tricks. No secret sauce or protected family recipe. It’s a process that would be a drudge for anyone. I think most people would be disappointed when they discover that there’s no big workflow revelation here

Thank you

Derek is coming soon!

This is such an amazing thing to hear. Make the kind of content you really want to see. That's my mantra. It's one of the things that makes them so satisfying to create

@@harryblends thanks again!

Thank you

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For real, don’t know what he’s using for all this but it rivals the highest level productions I’ve seen out of 1000’s of tutorials. Magic.

You don’t… unless you’re trying to introduce a range of geometry node features while isolating concepts sequentially so the tree is easier to read

@@harryblends make sense... thank you for the video... :)

Thank you! :)

Thank you! That new KZbin “translate to ancient lost language in reverse” feature is legit

@@harryblends Definitely. That's one of the reasons why I subscribe to your channel...

This is awesome. I struggled with them for so long too. But it’s one of those things that kinda just clicks when you step back from it. Seems way more complex than it actually is

Yeah, I don’t explain the order of the indexes in the narration - though it’s visualized in all three of the animated spline segments. This is something that could have been clearer. The struggle with a video like this - where I’m trying to carry more of the basics - is it’s really hard to know how granular to go with the language. The danger is a wall of words that’s hard to keep up with. That’s why I started to animate more of the explanations. Thank you. Derek will be back. Derek has so much more to give

@@harryblends A trick I’ve seen you use before is to make up names for things. Word variety in a block of text helps to break it up and helps viewers visualize concepts as they’re explained. I think of it as taking a box of colored markers to your language where, even if it’s not the most technically correct, it adds to the overall clarity. For example, taking this at 12:16 - “Now, at the start of the repeat zone we can take the resolved position of the previous point and, using a mix node, mix it with our position field node which, for every point, will give us the current position of that point. So in each iteration, its point is having its position mixed with the newly mixed position of the previous iteration’s point”. To this - “Now, at the start of the repeat zone, if the current iteration number is the same as the index of a “tail point”, that point’s new position is calculated by blending partway between the “tail point”’s existing position and that of the previous iteration’s corresponding point. [ Otherwise, if the loop is at a “head point”, we will still shift it by its starting tangent. ]” As soon as switches inside of loops are involved in a problem, I love to write down logic flow diagrams to help myself know what happens in each condition.

Thank you!

Ha. I’ll never forget when I first watched that moment. Then everyone went on Facebook and lost their minds. Good times.