Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 7: Geometry Nodes (Long Sprinkles)

[@blenderguru]

For those using Blender 4.1, there's a couple of changes: 1. "Rotate Euler" node is now the "Rotate Rotation" node. Shift+A > Utilities > Rotation > "Rotate Rotation". 2. Random Value is found under Shift+A > Utilities > Random Value The final node setup for Blender 4.1 users: i.imgur.com/RzGyzGv.png And separately, if you've got sprinkle issues: 1. Make sure you add loop cuts! It won't bend if there's no geometry to support it. 2. Make sure to apply scale (Select all, Ctrl+A, Scale) or it will be the wrong size on the donut.

[@liqueev]

yes, but the rotate rotation doesnt have the random value on rotate by pls help

[@DarthNorr]

@@liqueev Random value is under Shift+A > Utilities > and this is the third option from the bottom

[@user-vd9sf2gr2f]

Lucky me that I started this beginner course yesterday, really got confused that rotate euler wasn’t showing up and that I had to shift+a the random value node

[@ArbitraryCodeExecution]

i use 4.2 cause node previews are rly cool

[@MoonStar-dg4np]

I was wondering why my sprinkles were TINY (thank you)

[@tealeaf_green]

I just spent about an hour trying to work out why my "Simple Deform" modifier bend looked completely different to the one in the video. (The 'bend' was much shallower, and the top and bottom vertices were very stretched out.) It turned out that I needed to 'Apply Scale' to the cylinder object -- I imagine it was a result of how it was created and then scaled to a new size? Either way, selecting the object in Object Mode, hitting "Ctrl-A" and then selecting "Scale" seemed to work. Once I'd done that, I applied 'Simple Deform' and it looked exactly like the one in the video. Just dropping this here for anyone who might run into the same issue! Hugely enjoying these tutorials.

[@ramilkhusnutdinov6337]

Thanks! This saved my hour 😂

[@Matt_bhg]

Thanks, this saved me 30 min!

[@nemeari8230]

Tq

[@Dezil]

Really wish I saw this before watching 10 other videos trying to figure this out

[@nathanielchamron]

Happened to me too, thanks for sharing!

[@nikolaitoliabov5844]

Blender 4.1 Shift+A-> "Utilities" -> "deprecated" -> "rotate euler"

[@tepig52]

youre the goat, was wondering why he had it and I didnt

[@rajram11]

thank you so much i hope it reaches to a lot more people

[@antagoianista9516]

Thank you!

[@yest2306]

thank you, finally found it

[@BUTCHFXLTD-uz8fp]

thank you

[@Jiinxx10]

For anyone wondering, 17:08, there is no "Rotate Euler" for the newest 4.1 update. I had to manually search (Edit > Menu Search) "Rotate Rotation." It's the same thing, then you can continue on to Random Value. Also, an extra tip in case anyone else is having trouble. Some of my sprinkles were floating above my donut (very subtle but noticeable), and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why. People kept saying you have to "Set Origin > Origin to Geometry." I kept doing it over and over again, and nothing happened. The answer to this is YES, you do have to right click and "Set Origin > Origin to Geometry" but on all four of your little sprinkles you made earlier, and NOT by selecting the sprinkles on the donut itself. This immediately fixed the problem. Waisted a whole hour researching this!! I hope learning this gets better :(

[@bravesonly]

Couldn't fix flat sprinkles unfortunately :( Seems like 4.1 update changed too much Update: I get, what I did wrong. I haven't applied "Scale" (Ctrl+A -> Scale) to each sprinkle in the beginning when creating sprinkles.

[@Jiinxx10]

@@bravesonly Ah yes! That was one of the things I did earlier before doing origin to geometry.

[@xomnionProgrammingAndChess]

thank you

[@darksoulempire4477]

Thank you oblivion, your 1 Hr sacrifice has saved me from torment.

[@nacho7373]

Thank you about the info of the change

[@dturn777]

Your tutorials have given me a purpose. I'm disabled and unemployed. I was always interested in 3d modelling but never seemed to find the time. Now I have nothing but time. When I found your tutorial it gave me hope. I no longer wish to end things. I want to be a 3d artist. Thank you so much. You've saved my life, literally. By the way, I could not get the "bent sprinkle" to look like yours - UNTIL I changed the Axis it was bending on! Not sure why, but I'm using 4.1

[@elwiwipowa4748]

real, btw if u want to make money with blender u can sell ur models in websites

[@agungprabowopurwokerto]

@@elwiwipowa4748 can you tell me what are the websites?

[@jny8498]

That's great to hear

[@FrozzenK]

@@elwiwipowa4748 How? What websites?

[@elwiwipowa4748]

@@FrozzenK ask chatgpt cuz there are too many brother

[@bodobanali]

If you - like me - had a problem with zooming in enough to the now small donut, go to Edit > Preferences > Navigation > Auto: Check „Depth“ to on

[@Louisteensen]

Thanks mate! was having issues with this and you comment helped me out. Just to clarify for the next one, the path is: Edit > Preferences > Navigation >Auto ; Depth = ON

[@krishankoenig6338]

@@Louisteensen Thanks! That saved so much time :)

[@romeano4882]

JESUS THANK YOU, I COULDNT ZOOM IN ON THE SPRINKLE AT ALL I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP MY WHILE 3D CAREER

[@rajeshkh2148]

Thank youuu❤ I love you whoever you are

[@Chud19]

You're a beauty, thank you!

[@MilkManicus]

17:57 In case anyone else has an issue finding the Rnadom Value Node, Shift+A -> Utilities -> Random Value is the third option from the bottom.

[@eugenetham6498]

Bless you sir

[@starkindler1134]

Thank you!

[@vikassahu0422]

thankyu

[@xtrasaucy7079]

live safer, thank you soo much

[@mayaahmed]

Thanks

[@bigheadrhino]

4:48. If you run into a problem where the Bevel is not 45 degrees, it’s because you need to ctrl+a and apply scale after scaling the cylinder

[@AweSomeLetsPlaysCz]

Thank you ! That one made me so mad, glad I looked at the comments.

[@0enxs]

Thank you a lot.

[@marcosalexandre6696]

Muito obrigado! ✌✌

[@ksarz178]

Thank you

[@asarangan]

Yes, I ran into that and spent way too much time wondering what I was doing wrong. Apply Scale solved it.

[@ThePsychoDino148]

Hey, I noticed it was mentioned that if your simple deform modifier looks different to the one in the video, you need to select it and press Ctrl + A and then click scale. I had just finished and the tutorial and noticed that the sprinkles except the bent ones were sort of flattened. To fix this; do the same as before: select the other 3 sprinkles, Ctrl + A and then click scale. Hope I saved you some time

[@lonetrailchime]

Thanks a lot. This helped.

[@niclasbacke7380]

Thank you this worked for me

[@PhilJFlyMusic]

thank you! You definitely spared me a headache lol

[@yooooseee2064]

You are legend my friend, thank you

[@Ramzez.]

I thought I messed up big time, this fixed it. Thank you!!

[@badlvckinc]

If you're just starting and you're struggling like me - I'm with you. You are not stupid, it's just that this stuff is hard to follow, and if you missed a step somewhere you might get a completely different result. But wait - that's actually good! If you have to go back and do one step again, you will have a much easier time understanding what it does. Thank you mr. Blender Guru, your tutorials are awesome and I'm determined not to give up, even though I'm learning the basics of Blender exclusively for a graphics project I'm doing in GIMP (but who knows, maybe I'll do some more 3D stuff in the future, it would be an awesome skill to write in my curriculum)

[@Jez1963UK]

I'm a 60 year old 3D veteran (3DS Max since mid-90s) and wish to learn Blender and so far, my days for the last week have been commencing with; Get up, get washed/dressed, make tea/coffee, followed immediately by switching on my computer to watch the next part of how to make a donut using Blender :)

[@PurplySkye]

that sounds awesome! :D

[@ResetUE]

mad respect for you mister. im here barely 18 and seeing a variety of ages makes me know for a fact that its never too late to learn something. you are the perfect example of discipline on this earth ❤

[@scottconover90]

Same!

[@mortem6889]

My honest respect to you. I am sitting here in my 20s as a 3D Artist and hope, I can also say this in my 60s. Wish you all the best😊

[@Jez1963UK]

Awwwe wow guys, you guys are the best :) But I'm struggling with the bent sprinkles looking weird in the Geometry Node. I can get them to bend but I cannot add them to the geometry node without the bend getting messed up. I've tried the suggestions made by others of applying the scale, but that doesn't fix it for me :( I'm not giving up, but will move onto Part 8 and return back to bent sprinkles later :)

[@Everything3dAnimation]

I don't know if Blender Guru is aware of the effect he has on our learning day. I have seen several other tutorials, and I have learned a lot of other things, but I will never forget the first time I deleted the default cube and created my first animation. I am really moved and grateful to have been part of this amazing community and to have tried this unforgettable experience, which changed my entire perspective on what I want to accomplish and become and gave me the strength to finally achieve what I so much desired. From the bottom of my heart, thank you, Blender Guru, and thanks to the Blender community❤.

[@blenderguru]

Thank you. That's heartwarming to hear :)

[@Rtx_Rotex]

@daris5089 He has a lighting tutorial. Just search Blender Guru Lighting

[@limitedhangoutlive]

@@blenderguru You have no idea how hard it is to find good tutorials. There are a few good teachers for Blender, I really like Brandon's Drawings for quick tips when you're stuck but when it comes to picking this up and learning, people like you are INVALUABLE. Easy to follow, goes through the basics that are necessary and the correct way to do them, no rambling, explain why things exist or do what they do, make things feel less overwhelming by pointing out redundancies giving a "you're not alone" feeling, the list goes on. What you've done will undoubtedly have a huge impact, if it hasn't already. Another person who deserves a ton of credit and I put in the same box as you, is Product Design Online. I am literally bringing products to market because of his FREE series if anyone is interested in Fusion as knowing Fusion and Blender is the perfect combo for covering what the other does better. I can't wait to bring in designs and start rendering them from what I've learned here. Just amazing stuff.

[@floral_clicks.]

​@@blenderguru hi man why you don't reupload this video, Today bevel movement wasted 6 hours of me and I got the result by just throwing stones roughly and one of that stones got hit. I made 45 degree or round sprinkles but not by your method and now when I read the comments here, I gives me more horrible look for tomorrow 😢😢😢😢😢 Means lot more to suffer. So I request you please give 30 mins and rerecord this part and reupload it here. Otherwise many students will give up due to such errors who may has the potential to become great blender gurus so please remove this errors.😢😢

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

This is giving me an all new respect for 3d modelers. If it takes this many videos for a donut... imagine a city.

[@cartoon-clips-cuh]

well to be fair if you know what youre doing theres many other ways of doing it and shortcuts, ive seen this one short where a guy makes a donut in like a minute but taking these long routes are good for learning

[@yoced1468]

theres like an auto generate city plugin lol you can literally just draw the streets

[@SirToaster9330]

Once you make the donut, it might take only three videos to make the city

[@kaerinus1402]

Dude, Bro, Mate... You all make this look so easy its humbling. Coming from a electrician/metalworking background ive never done anything 3d, 2d, artsy stuff. I started this cause i want to impress my little one with a selfmade animation and although i gotta watch every episode at least thrice to get it - ive done a donut with sprinkles. And i think i almost know what im doing here. Thank you.

[@L.W.74]

Wish you success with your endeavour, I'm sure your little one will be impresed with your progress

[@enfc]

For those, who have difficulties with curving edges at 5:20 and the edges are not rounded at all. Select the bottom and the top faces, hit ctrl + B and then, left click anywhere. After that, you'll have the bevel window in the left corner. You can apply all changes there. But what we need is ''Profile type’’. If it’s Custom, change it to Superellipse. Voilà, now you’ve got the rounded edges.

[@cuxze9098]

You are a life saver. Thanks

[@Florie31]

Thank you 😭❤

[@iamabratd6836]

how do you bevelling in laptop? 04:58 😭😭

[@aminamrg1360]

i hope ur pillow is cold and nice on both sides

[@Monica-ho5dn]

thank you so much!!!!!

[@STOPICANTAIM]

8:17 If your having trouble making your sprinkle bend correctly these are the steps I took that corrected mine. 1. Apply Scale (CTRL A) 2. Make sure you have added the new edge loops (CTRL R)

[@learnings274]

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT WHY IT DIDN'T WORK NOW I CAN FINALLY MOVE ON

[@AnasYo-fb8wv]

Thank you so much

[@Nope-ity-nope-nope]

ANOTHER Thank You Thank You Thank You! I don't discord so I'm glad I found this.

[@user-kakarot903]

Thank you very muchhhhhhhh

[@keikrwk1673]

Yeah I was having problem bending the sprinkle and this really helped me thanks

[@AdelHaiba78]

Tip, to avoid messing with the clipping values, it is always recommended to switch to orthographic view when modeling and editing the mesh, and you'll avoid any clipping and zooming issues.

[@floepert_0522]

I remember when I did your donut tutorial for the first time as a beginner, it took me so incredibly long because there was so much information and I struggled with a lot of steps. I would feel very overwhelmed. Now as being a more experienced Blender user (even though I am still learning) and doing your tutorial for the second time I am going through it a lot faster. Also, I am not feeling as overwhelmed, instead I really like to go through everything again and still learn new things. It's really nice to see how much I have progressed, compared to that first time I did the tutorial. Thank you so much for your amazing way of teaching Blender and your easy to follow tutorials. For people who are just starting out, blender has a steep learning curve. Keep in mind that it takes time to learn. But eventually you will start to grow and that is the best feeling ever

[@mutchlouis9707]

17:04 In case you cannot find "Rotate Euler", Its in "shift+A" > utilities > Deprecated (Under "rotation")> Rotate Euler.

[@veynix_editz]

thank youu :)

[@juuzousuzuya5050]

Tysm

[@The_flanex]

Thank you so much bro)!

[@EkaterinaKomina]

Thanks!

[@HvymtlSlinger]

I came here to comment this, and then I saw his comment and then this comment… when you use this method there is an icon that says to use “Rotate Rotation instead” function is almost identical

[@Zosss]

4:50 If you can't select edges or faces, go to your 'Scene Collection' in the top right. There is a white dot next to 'Cylinder'. Press that and it will turn into a square and you will be able to select edges/faces

[@me-minus-me-minus-me-dot-me]

i duplicate my donut but the sprinkle was stuck on the other donut can you help me?

[@Pacn8r-Pac]

Finished this episode and added a thumbnail of my Donut for all to see. I also found it this time was way easier to make sprinkles and edit them. The Simple Form modifier rocks too! Thanks for all your Help.

[@rickyjovis2076]

Looking good

[@rickyjovis2076]

Did you made it What project you did after donut

[@Pacn8r-Pac]

I formatted my laptop on one of the earlier tutorials. When I installed everything and went back to that episode I left off at, the background, counter top ect was not showing. I tried to fix the problem because I didn't want to start over again.... so I stopped at that point. I was in no rush completing this tutorial because I have made the donut to completion from his earlier tutorials. I kinda went back to working on rpg maker scripting and story. I will star working this donut or start over again in a couple of weeks though. Thanks @@rickyjovis2076

[@BFGlover123]

mmmm I just want to NOM on that donut it looks like such NOMMABLE donut mmmmm

[@nrdkraft]

Thank you Andrew for being awesome. I’m a Blender User of over a dozen years and I still enjoy your tutorials. Even tho this series is for beginners and I have moderate experience with Geo Nodes, watching a beginner tutorial from you in particular is refreshing and still makes me learn little things that I forgot or just didn’t pick up as Blender continues to introduce new Awesomenities. And it’s just fun to hang out.

[@softsoundd]

The near clip plane is not very small by default because the more you increase the distance between the near and far clipping planes, the more you decrease the precision of the depth buffer, introducing Z-fighting visual anomalies

[@blenderguru]

TIL! Thanks

[@thecodinguru]

Didn't understand *anything*... but whatever, thanks

[@MatiasMeno]

Omg! I was wondering forever why some of my scenes had insane z-fighting. I had my clip start at 0.0001m for some reason, that's why! Thank you so much for this info.

[@Rtx_Rotex]

@@blendersarelikevegans How about you make a donut tutorial? 🤦‍♂

[@zemocrise]

​@@blendergurusir why are my long sprinkle small than the original ones

[@yeodesloth9329]

Ended up with round sprinkles on my donut instead of just long sprinkles, figured out it was something super simple, wrong collection. moaned very loudly when I fixed it.10/10

[@beautystaff7629]

Please tell me i have the same issue

[@farihasherwani4083]

my long sprinkles size is very small once applied and feels like dust. how to fix it?

[@MrFrootcakeOfficial]

@@farihasherwani4083 I was also having a similar problem. I don't know if this is the solution for you, as well, but have you tried applying the scale to the sprinkles?

[@natikadance5062]

why did you moan

[@ZLearning]

if for some reason, when you try to save your rotation on the sprinkles and some of them flatten on the donut, make sure you also save the scale on your sprinkles

[@DP22777]

Thank you for this!

[@Kn.77]

I was having some trouble with this just now lol! Thank you so much for the help!

[@ngopro]

🤟

[@nabelfathahillah]

THANK U SO MUCHHHH

[@smartaction6933]

you saved me ages thank u

[@rebeccamarshall6890]

For anyone wondering why their bent long sprinkle might look something like a beaker after laying them flat, its because you need to click apply on the deform modifier in the little drop down before rotating them to lay flat :D took me ages to figure out what I was doing wrong :D

[@luuzeu]

you are a life safer!!

[@phyuthaekhine9916]

Same issue. Fixed. Thanks a lot.

[@Arc_Compass]

thank you so much >3

[@makks06]

I love you

[@infan7472]

Thanks bro

[@128stephensonfire]

For anyone that had a lovely bent sprinkle that turned into a Frankenstein wedge thing later on... Right after you added the deform modifier, you need to apply it.

[@Anonymous-dg4id]

Very useful, thank you

[@megamann910]

THANK YOU!! exactly that was what I forgot, you saved me some time

[@abrahamperez6309]

Appreciate it, i was about to start going crazy again

[@vanmaldergemguillaume2849]

Boss

[@מיכלאד]

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@dariousvex]

If your bevel is not working properly (applying more bevel on one axis than other) that is because you have not applied your scale. Shift-A and Scale. It took me good 5 minutes freaking out trying to figure out what is wrong. Google helped.

[@ArtDali-uu8rw]

I've the same prblm but I didn't understand what you said

[@gnanlitch9543]

Thank you, I was looking for this comment, I scaled the sprinkle after the first size setup when you first add the cylinder. Pressed ctrl+a -> scale, and that fixed it.

[@Hazegames25]

thank you....legit 15minutes of looking for a solution, and this fixed it, should have applied the scale.. Shift A, never forget to shift A

[@jeromeLoil]

thanks

[@crysaine]

doesnt shift a add things tho??, how do you make it work on a laptop?

[@equinox1188]

15:54 Hot tip: Before rotating the model sprinkles you MUST apply the moddifyer to the bent sprinkle. Else, when you confirm the rotation with Ctrl+A later, very strange things are going to happen to that modifyer and the sprinkle will be squished in some directions instead of bending.

[@mirzacc1]

thank you

[@deepaksharma-uo9dm]

How do we make a correction?

[@equinox1188]

I tried to correct it but didn’t find a good way. In the end I flipped all sprinkles back to vertical, confirmed rotation with Ctrl+A, and deleted the last sprinkle. Then I redid the last sprinkle like he did in the video earlier, by duplicating the largest straight one, and this time immediately applied the modifier. If that doesn’t work for some reason, you can also make a new sprinkle from scratch (start with a cylinder, remember to elongate with G not S), bevel it and then do the modifier. I would still suggest rotating the other sprinkles back up for size comparison, but it’s not necessary since you’re not duplicating anything.

[@deepaksharma-uo9dm]

@@equinox1188 Oh u a life saver...thank you so much bro 🙌🏻.. Did as u said... flipped sprinkles back to vertical.. applied rotation..it worked

[@Ikasib928]

Thank you, it helped me a lot!

[@UFPplayZ]

I just Recently started using Blender about 1 Month ago, this series really has helped me progress further. Thank You, Andrew.

[@camilamarodin7046]

If you are having issues with the Simple Modifier: Notice that when he finishes the loop cut (Ctrl+R), only the new vertices are selected in Edit Mode. If in your case all the vertices of the cylinder are selected, the Simple Deformer would not work as in the video. Try selecting only the new vertices, and then try the modifier again. It worked for me!

[@TheRealWinsletFan]

Andrew, RE: CLIP START: The reason the clip plane is further out by default is because of how the maths works in the viewport transform. For maximum precision you want the near clip plane as far from the camera as possible (the distance of your far clip is also a factor, but less than the near). I used to have an excel spreadsheet I'd use to show the effect to our artists, but I haven't seen it in years. As a practical matter I don't think it matters quite as much with the float depth buffers we have now in most cases, but when depth buffers were just 32 bit ints Z artefacts were more common when the near clip was very small.

[@TheNickAyer]

For anyone who may run into this at 14:30 when you check the 3 boxes to fix the sprinkle position, if yours don't go to the correct spot on the icing of the second donut try selecting the original long sprinkles and then right click > Set origin > Origin to Geometry. Not sure how exactly this popped up for me

[@0_CS_0]

DUDE TYSM U SAVED MY DONUT

[@sarfarazplayyt6877]

tysm!!

[@hristts]

14:35 for someone who's using blender 4.2.1, maybe you're wondering why your sprinkles are so huge after you ticked the (separate children and reset). Just click all of the small sprinkles that you edit and then also click the big sprinkles on the icing then (Ctrl+A, Scale) and it should solve the problem

[@proton3748]

tysm broo

[@niekrzysztof]

Thank you so much!

[@INSPEKTOR_C]

nice one thank u!!

[@vincentgabriel4723]

Thank you so much!!!

[@filmikeedey]

could you please elaborate i am not able to solve my issue here

[@sda9650]

3d cursor tool cylinder clipping view - clip start - n vertices selection mode (not faces) bevel - ctrl + b duplicate - shift + d toggle wireframe view loop cut - ctrl + r simple deform modifier angle origin point selecting objects - shift set origin - origin to geometry outliner collections move to collection - m pinning / unpinning geometry nodes collection info node separate children checkbox reset children checkbox pick instance checkbox utilities - rotation - rotate euler node rotate to local random value node float vector tau / double pi - pi is 3.142 x 2 = tau 6.283

[@xomnionProgrammingAndChess]

wh- what?!?

[@bruhmoment5020]

yea cool, if you wanna actually help people you might wanna like tell them what you're talking about and why

[@federicoborrelli8404]

at the step changing the object info to a collection info to change the type of sprinkles, whenever i select the checkbox "Pick Instance" in the Instance of points node, it results in flattening a huge part of the long sprinkles on their long side. I still don't know what may cause the issue edit: solved! the problem was that i had applied the scale using ctrl+A only to the elongated curve sprinkle, and not the others. Solved by selecting all 4 sprinkles and applying both scale and rotation (just to make sure :) )

[@hellow8651]

Many thanks dude

[@peczzz]

LOVE U MAN!!

[@duongduong6863]

my god you've just saved me

[@federicocordoba1169]

THANK YOU. Saved my mental health.

[@EveeFFXIV]

Thank you!!!!

[@lauraostler4540]

5:52 If anyone is having trouble duplicating their sprinkle and it not becoming a different object. Example cylinder cylinder.001 you have to be in object mode and then "shift D" not edit mode it won't make a new object it will only make a new mesh under the same object. It made so much sense when I figured it out that it wouldn't work in edit mode but still I couldn't figure it out for a while. hope this helps

[@plagueeater1486]

you've saved me friend

[@Playerdue]

Fantastic tutorials! Not only I'm learning how to use Blender, but I'm becoming more and more knowledgeable about the inner workings of donuts!

[@arunawalker]

Ok, I've reached the point with the collections and I'm kind of proud that I've been doing that from the beginning. Professionally working with Creo has taught me the value of a clean model tree via groups in assemblies or in large plates with thousands of holes so I just unconciously started putting things in collections. I pathologically name all my KEs and groups so I can tell how I changed things just by looking at my model tree.

[@reeti5958]

Andrew, I have been watching these donut tutorials since you made them first time, I love this content and recommend everyone to start over here in their 3D journey. Just one suggestion, if you can include multiple audios or subtitles for these videos, can you do that? I live in India and although love your content, can't recommend it to some people because of language barrier, it would be so much helpful to people who are not fluent in English. (I can write you subtitles in Hindi, if you would like that.)

[@-alejandrissimo-]

I keep having issues with the simple deform modifier. My sprinkle keeps bending on both ends of the cylinder, as opposed to the top only. Edit: so I got help on the Blender Guru Discord and I had to apply the scale to my sprinkle. I don't know if I missed that step in the video or what, but it solved my issue.

[@DRIFTKING1876]

ty! had the same problem

[@Jully5Jullyet]

You probably used the scale tool to elongate the sprinkles on Object Mode instead of doing it manually on Edit Mode like Blender Guru did, that's why there was not a "apply transformations" bit in this part 🤔 every change in rotation, scale and movement you make in Edit Mode is absolute, and the same changes in Object Mode are relative ( kinda like Smart Objects in Photoshop ^^)

[@sandroperez6259]

oh thanks a lot

[@Inish]

@@Jully5Jullyet Thank you, I see now why it happened. He did use the scale tool on the first sprinkle, then the others he scaled in Edit Mode and that gave me something to think about, when my last sprinkle misbehaved 🤣

[@ethyr]

I had the same issue and this worked, thanks!

[@DavidFeldmanMusic]

Setting my clock to 7am gmt to make fresh donuts and follow your video 🙂

[@pebble5478]

I am LOVING this tutorial! I struggle a bit here and there but your tutorial is so great to follow along. Thank you so much for making these videos as well as consistently updating them when Blender updates their program. 🥰

[@MikkoRantalainen]

2:10 The near and far clipping planes are used as an optimization for numerical accuracy. If you set near plane really close to camera and far clipping plane to hundreds of kilometers, you'll find that the accuracy of the objects you edit start to suffer because the floating point values are scaled to that whole range between near and far planes and if you're working in a small scene, you should optimize the range to match the scale you work with for optimal performance.

[@HardenedWater]

If anyone had this issue like I did, when you're putting the long sprinkles on the donut with modifiers, if you select reset children and it still projects them out into space, select every sprinkle (the group) and set origin to geometry

[@Galdethriel]

Thanks so much, you just rescued me from so much confusion!

[@andreheneine]

If you're not getting round corners when bevelling the sprinkles: select "Superellipse" Profile Type in the popup Bevel menu.

[@eeyeyy1]

thanks!

[@AlexGalluzzo]

Lifesaver #2

[@arandomreplyguy3382]

for the ones who are struggling to find the "rotate euler" node : it's in the "deprecated" option

[@ARTificial-xz7wd]

was just coming to say this haha!

[@xomnionProgrammingAndChess]

i cant find it!

[@robmiller8753]

Thank you for going into so much detail on the geometry nodes!!! I've watched plenty of tutorials that *mention* geometry nodes very briefly, but there's no explanation for the what or why. This video made it much easier to understand.

[@merpai]

DUDE!!!! Can we take a second to appreciate this guy's narrating skills??? He does such a good job at keeping the videos interesting!!! keep up the good work!!!🤗

[@eleoleo394]

16:00 For anyone that had trouble rotating (or resizing) the sprinkle, try to press ( . ) and un-check the [Only Location]. don't forget to apply rotation and scale afterwards

[@lag3075]

this is so much helpfull, thank you sm

[@DannyOnTheBlox]

This was so helpful. Thank you.

[@Abladicus]

The reason I’m having trouble is because my sprinkler rotate around the crosshairs not the origin

[@PlushieMe]

omg thank you! 😵

[@thekosmickollector7748]

thank you so much, was pulling my hair out over this!

[@preservetheunion9258]

Tip: for people having issues with finding the correct rotate ruler node, it has been moved to be in the "deprecated' menu underneath rotation (for Blender 4.2)

[@yasinislam9329]

Thank You very much!

[@sofie2452]

Life saver

[@christendombaffler]

If, after applying the rotation, your last sprinkle looks like a weird fan or some other ">

[@tonyspark]

Thank you! 😀

[@expazatrix]

LEGEND

[@gabrielscott1709]

Thank you!! been looking for this

[@nauta9875]

Thank you!!!

[@streamcookiesxcream]

I LOVE YOU

[@IliaRuya]

Its my first time downloading blender then jumps to search on youtube for tutorials and found yours first, its actually so frustrating 😂 I almost quit on Part 6 but ill do it

[@bloodycandy665]

"Euler. Is it french? Maybe it's german.....just to annoy the europeans" Me as a german human being: *suprised pikachu face* (As a german you spoken it out right by the way :D ) So now I also have to leave a usefull comment. *clears throat* I really enjoy the tutorial so far. Especially the geometry node part. It is really something new (for me at least) and I cant wait to see what else is doable with this! I also love the way the videos are made: fun to watch, clever made and easy to understand. Looking forward to work on the next part. Thanks~🌻

[@yashvardhantomar758]

17:05 - use "Rotate Rotation", "Rotate Euler" has been deprecated

[@theperson10101]

at 17:05 if you can't find the "rotate euler", its because your using a newer version. You can still find it by just searching for it instead

[@YLW_spy]

thx 👍

[@cakester4924]

Thank you so much for this

[@MetalMustBleed]

can't seem to find Random Value either

[@Lguy_99]

​@@MetalMustBleedme neither

[@MetalMustBleed]

@@Lguy_99 found a solution that may help Press ctrl + F And then search for it manually

[@Carleight687]

IMPORTANT! 17:10 the rotate euler geometry node has been changed to the name rotate rotation. shift + a > utilities > rotation > rotate rotation

[@hyperxbreeze]

Thank you so much!!!!

[@nataliyamilenkova3767]

thanks a lot

[@holstfly1]

not gonna lie, I came back to this one multiple times, I feel it was a hard pill to swallow, but glad I passed through it.

[@alpercizmeci4039]

While working with Geometry Nodes, any single change i made was causing 5-10 seconds long periods in which editor would become totally unresponsive. If this happens to you too, delete the whole geometry node and start from scratch. That fixed the issue for me, no more performance issues. I just took a screenshot of all nodes before deleting them, then created the same exact one by looking at the screenshot and that worked for me.

[@leeadamson2516]

all this video has succeeded in doing is making me want a donut

[@LandoWTV]

If you're having the problem where you do set origin then origin to geometry and for some reason the origin isn't actually centered but instead offset for some reason, after setting the origin to geometry the operator panel appears (the window in the bottom left), instead of median center set it to bounds center instead and that should properly center the origin.

[@ziotheholy]

Thank you! I was really confused and afraid to move on until I found a solution or reason for this since I didn't know if it would affect future steps!

[@minimino9878]

16:58 if people don't have the rotate euler, then you can search it, though its deprecated. You can also use Rotate Rotation.

[@colintesla]

Thank you!

[@jubsteren]

For anyone who can't zoom further in at 1:35 , you have to turn on auto-depth by clicking ctrl+, -> Navigation and make sure that "Depth" under "Auto" is turned on

[@ericzwirnmann8151]

Spent an hour trying to get my sprinkles to rotate around the Y-axis only to find out (after searching on line) that there was a setting in the bowels of the many Blender menus that prevented the rotation from occurring. Grrrr. But from some reason I still feel inspired to continue with these tutorials even though it's only for fun.

[@rockfree2639]

At 8:48 in Blender 4.20 in my case the origins didn't get to the center of the object. So what helped is: after Set Origin ---> Origin to Geomerty take a look at the left bottom of the display and find a small pop-up window named Set Origin. There, in the Center section choose Bounds Center. I did it separately for each object, didn't try it for all together. Peace :)

[@mikon524]

thx this really helped and it also works if u do it together

[@dominicsanchez8511]

when I placed my long sprinkle collections on geometry nodes panel, the random placement and rotation works but its size/scale are like 1/10 of its original size, even I use the "ctrl+a" on scale.

[@Drazsha]

Did you ever solve this? Running into the same issue.

[@bernardboucher7845]

@@Drazsha select donut ad icing, then ctrl-a scale, worked for me

[@unity._rl]

@@bernardboucher7845 this saved me, thank you

[@tamheed2k3eshad]

Here to claim my 7-day streak and resume to create the delicious virtual donut.

[@jordanmason210]

I am a baker but fondant is placed inside an stainless steel insert and is regularly heated by a special type heater. If dipped into the insert, there's many different techniques on dipping, it could effect on how wet the donut can be and yet will even have a shine to it which reflects different flavours like chocolate or vanilla as well added sprinkles which is also inside an insert :)

[@woodenplay730]

If your sprinkle bends in a strange way you can try to select the sprinkle, click F9 and turn rotation on. Worked for me

[@adwaitbhostekar1522]

Do not forget to turn off snap before making the long sprinkle. My sprinkle kept on snapping to the donut when i tried to move it, spent 15 mins figuring out the problem. Hope this helps.

[@daphneebrisson7449]

That's why all my sprinkle ref were sticking to my plane. 😅

[@WOLFPATH1]

If you're encountering issues with the bevel, particularly if it's resulting in a more pencil-like shape, you can rectify this by adjusting the profile type to Superellipse. This option can be found at the bottom of the bevel menu that appears after creating the pencil.

[@buu9835]

you just saved my life! Thanks

[@TheSfelex]

mine is set to superellipse but still looks like a pencil, and idea how to fix this further?

[@trelligan42]

This is nice and all, and I appreciate the humor with which you present yet another iteration of this tutorial series, but what about powdered sugar or my favorite, cinnamon donuts?

[@OrbitalCookie]

One idea would be to replace glossy coating with the one that has powdery texture, and then sculpt that to lay properly on top. Then add some micro small cube sprinkles everywhere for standalone powder particles.

[@wardy10]

This is the part of the series when things start to get a little more complicated. Excellent series mate!

[@realOni7]

These geometry nodes are insane for environments as well.

[@IfeanyiEzeani-Obi]

If ur watching this video rn with a currently updated blender and ur looking for the rotate euler its in deprecated not rotation in utilities

[@eesates]

Thank you, Andrew, for the entire donut tutorial series. It’s impossible to express just how amazing you are at this! I've learned so many important things about the fundamentals of 3D with you. Also, I can’t pass without mentioning how amazing the people of that watches these series. They pointed out some critical issues about some steps by sharing the solutions. I saved a lot of time with their help! Cheers, everyone 🫶

[@Yazoon_S]

if your long sprinkles somehow still not in the right rotation, make sure you have rotated the referenced long sprinkles in the world 90 degree around the X Axis specifically, not the Y Axis

[@lynxylink]

You're a legit lifesaver, appreciate the tip. Rotating on the X Axis made it appear "off" so I used Y Axis instead, and of course that backfired.

[@Yazoon_S]

@@lynxylink glad it helped :)

[@kahn5636]

thank you so much i was about to end up restarting the sprinkle process

[@stuff1299]

thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks

[@Doobydoe]

5:02 to anyone whos bevel is not even, go to object mode, select the cilinder and ctrl+A and select scale. after that it'll behave properly

[@animeniichan722]

THANKS dude i was having issues with bending the cylinder this fixed that

[@thijsbeek]

you are a life safer i couldnt find it anywhere thx!

[@smd_za]

I just messed up my sprinkles somehow. great excuse to try again from scratch and learn some more. Thanks so much for the videos, can't wait to reach the finish line

[@LaitueFluff]

For anyone wondering, the rotation euler has been moved to Utilities - Deprecated The other euler options in rotation are not the same or renamed

[@Xarphine]

thank you

[@1upvscpu64]

Just spent like 20 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't get my bevel to bend like that. It turns out I had to apply the scale. Ctrl + A then click Scale. I think you quickly forget that people who are following this have like 2 hours of experience with the software. You're already skipping explanations of what you're doing and how you're doing it. For example, you do the bevel and then duplicate, but you never say you need to switch to object mode or that you need to select anything. If we just go by what you say, we just duplicated all those faces we beveled.

[@rudiarnaut5620]

Thank you very much!!!

[@powerpowerpower]

Omg thank you. When did he do that? I didn’t see him doing it on the video so I couldn’t do it if you haven’t mentioned!

[@uctruongmau204]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[@phat2140]

Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@VanTalion]

Thanks a lot!

[@theocourty4652]

7:25 I created the sprinkle variant by "scaling" it with S and it did weird things when applying the bend modifier, it was nit properly bending as in the video. Recreated the variants and elongated them with G as presented corrected that, hope it can help someone in the future c:

[@GlobalWarming_x]

i went through the same issue and your comment did indeed help me

[@unique_two]

Another fix: apply the scaling, via Ctrl+A -> Scale, then the bend should be correct.

[@reecehatton8469]

@@unique_two This super helped, thank you

[@josemolina7519]

@@unique_two you're a hero, thank u

[@Raull.0902]

@@unique_two love u

[@willemzuidersma4357]

For some reason my long sprinkles were very small when I placed the collection in the geometry node section. This feels like a band aid fix, but I added a "scale instance" modifier between the "collection info" and "instances on point"

[@UltimateGattai]

I also had this issue and don't know why, it looks correct on the original item, but then I add it through geometry nodes, the sprinkles are incredibly tiny in comparison to the original sprinkles they were based on.

[@saturnsghost]

@UltimateGattai yes same plesase tell me if anyone finds a good fix

[@konnosantsos8070]

i had the same problem and was trying to find a solution for hours. thanks a lot.

[@countpelican8852]

@@konnosantsos8070 Sadly no answer, just saying I also had this issue and am curious if there is a fix. Thanks all

[@konnosantsos8070]

@@countpelican8852 You can either add the "scale instance" node or change the scale directly from the "instances on points" node. However i dont know how to fix the root of the problem, meaning the scale changing when you connect the sprinkles node to the instances on points node.

[@chubbyrabbit3661]

19:59 made me laugh when you were trying to explain. I was getting so into it🤣 I really love your tutorials so far. I can't wait to finish my donut till the very end☺

[@Zannin-1]

Thanks to everybody this one was a struggle, you've all been my teacher for this one

[@hion71]

17:50 for who can't find random value after dragging out from 'Rotate By', just open up new menu and type in random. Was unable to find random value for 20 mins which was very annoying. Maybe because 4.1 thing?

[@anamonnf]

Hello everyone, when I reach Chapter "21:09 Distance and sizing" and follow Andrew's instructions, the long sprinkles are too sunken into the icing, any advice?

[@knasen42]

I have the same issue, anyone have any answers??

[@rocketstar890]

you need to set the "rotate euler" to local instead of object

[@marialackova6093]

Okay so I already had euler set to local so that didnt help but what did is to uncheck the "Pick instance" box in the "Instances on point" thingy in geometry nodes. I hope i wont mess up anything in the future...

[@AlexTLOU]

took this from another comment: To fix this; do the same as before: select the other 3 sprinkles, Ctrl + A and then click scale. Hope I saved you some time

[@HenryBailey-gv8yy]

I was having the same issue with some of the sprinkles being half in the icing and facing up and couldn’t find a single fix on the comments. Weirdly what fixed this issue was in the random value geometry nodes max settings, they were the wrong way round. Example: Gurus sais on his 0.5 6.283 6.283 I changed mine to 6.283 0.5 6.283 I believe it’s something to do with my orientation of some sort but either way it stopped them being in the icing and facing the sky. Hope this helps someone.

[@sweetygrl1234]

14:30 Whenever I select separate children and reset children the sprinkles grow extremely large and don't sit on the donut. How can I fix this?

[@cert9111]

You've probably figured it out by now, but I solved this by going back to object mode then selecting the sprinkles -> ctrl + a then apply scale and in geometry node ticked off separate/reset and it worked

[@thegrabbindragon339]

​@cert9111 I did that, and it still didn't work.

[@major4ward]

@@cert9111still didn’t work

[@TCWpower]

@@cert9111 My hero!

[@khudejathar2782]

Same issue. Someone help me solve this.

[@aramehhacopian2881]

Hello Thank you for your great tutorials just to inform that - Rotate Euler in blender 4.3 is under Utilities > Rotation > Deprecated > Rotate Euler.

[@NAK7798]

Awesome video, loving the tutorials so far! A bit of a math nerd here so I just wanted to quick comment on radians, especially cause angles are never really explained properly to people, and when understood radians make a whole lot of sense. What an angle is actually defined as is the ratio of the arclength between the two lines and the radius. So basically imagine two equal length lines connected together with a semicircle at the ends of the line (basically a pie slice), the angle they make is the length of the semicircle bit divided by the length of one of the lines. Now if you remember the formula for the length of the circumference of a circle it's 2*Pi*r, so what do you think the equivalent to 360 degrees would work out to be in radians? Well the length of the line is r, and the arclength is 2*Pi*r as we are going through the whole circle, hence the angle is defined to be 2*Pi*r/r which is just 2*Pi, exactly what we know to be a full circle in radians. If you read carefully you would also realize that we took a length divided by another length so technically angles are a unitless number, just a ratio. So what the heck are degrees? Well they're actually kinda dumb and arbitrary, they're just a rescaling of radians, people thought 360 sounded a lot easier to grasp than 2*pi so they just decided to convert stuff over to that. Mathematically degrees really don't make much sense, they just add a conversion step but the numbers themselves are easier for people to imagine.

[@Brieffact7]

17:03 if you cant find (rotate Euler), then find (rotate rotation), i think there is a mistake in 4.2 version.

[@323lakshya]

1 Radian is equal to 57.2958... degrees which means that in a half circle there are pie radian which means we can find angle in degree by multiplying angle by pie/180

[@OrbitalCookie]

Honestly after a while it's easier to just think in pies. 2pi = full circle, 2pi/2 = half, 2pi/3 = one third, 2pi/4 = quater, etc. I am at the point where I am annoyed when I see the degrees.

[@323lakshya]

@@OrbitalCookie yes me too but in blender we can't use pie=22/7 we have to use 3.14 and for reference we must have to know how much angle we are going to rotate the objects

[@MrTomyCJ]

@@323lakshya in blender you can just type "pi" or "tau" and it automatically puts the right number

[@nandanbhat629]

7:48 If your cylinder doesn't bend like in the video make sure to loopcut it first select the cylinder then clrl+r then scroll wheel up to increase it then apply modifier 😊

[@Abladicus]

Yeah that’s what I did, it didn’t work though

[@expandapantsii341]

this is probably the most difficult part of the tutoiral lmao, everything is fine except for geometry nodes, but thank you for making so easy to understand

[@robinfaury3958]

The distance between the Clip Start and the Clip End is the range to store Z value per piexel. It's often a 32 bits float value. The more the range is high the more two triangle will be at the same location and you'll end up with z fighting. Having the smallest range is always a good practice. BTW, super great tutorial as usual! 🙂

[@AngelosKyriacou08]

can anyone help me understand why my sprinkles are half inside the doughnut and half out and but my spherical sprinkles are perfectly fine

[@Al0ra_Harlett]

Did u figure it out eventually? I'm having the same issue rn 😭

[@sprigganforce174]

for those starting out too. I figured out you should enable - Edit - Preferences - Navigation - "Auto - Depth" so when you work on tiny objects your mouse isn't flying all over the place when you pan and zoom.

[@DearReah]

Thank you so much!

[@presidualist4587]

Should I have both perspective and depth checked or just have depth checked and have perspective unchecked?

[@cagnazzo82]

Apparently mine also did not have 'Orbit Around Selection' and 'Zoom to Mouse Position' selected automatically. Lol, why would those not be on? Anyway thanks for helping me find those options.

[@wikills4829]

THANK YOUUUU SOOO MUCCCHHH!!!! it almost driving me insane!! because i can't zoom and pan correctly!!

[@robotic3gg]

rotate euler has been changed to rotate rotation

[@l.Spxdes.l]

To anyone whos having issues with the rotate euler noder, it has been deprecated/changed, it is now called rotate rotation but you can still find it it Utilities>Deprecation

[@mightyleonidy6166]

thx a lot bro

[@olegazavr5141]

For those who struggle with simple deform (it's like flattens the sides of the cylinder instead of bending the form itself): Try rotating the sprinkle you want to bend so it would be perpendicular (90 degrees) to the other sprinkles. Fixed this for me although I am not sure why it happened in the first place...