Customizable Christmas Lights - Geometry Nodes 🎄 (Blender Tutorial)

[@RyanKingArt]

*Purchase the project files and support the channel:* • Gumroad: ryankingart.gumroad.com/l/christmas-lights • Blender Market: blendermarket.com/products/christmas-lights-geometry-nodes • Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/75790706

[@MercuryRisingFast]

Just purchased your lights. Very cool. I was trying to find out how you made the blinking lights. What part is that on your video? Thanks Ryan!

[@RyanKingArt]

@@MercuryRisingFast Thank you for purchasing! Oh I didn't make the lights blink.

[@MercuryRisingFast]

@Ryan King Art love your work. I'm gonna make them blink! Lol... thanks Ryan. You're the greatest Blender teacher out there, hands down.

[@DesignsbyDonBrown]

I purchased the Christmas lights but I don't see how to change light colors.

[@RyanKingArt]

you have to select the single christmas light object, and then go to the materials panel, and select the christmas light material. then you can adjust the colors, and brightness.@@DesignsbyDonBrown

[@Groffili]

Holy Christmas Cheer, Batman!

[@RyanKingArt]

😂 Thanks!

[@schroedingersdog7965]

Awesome! Thanks, Ryan!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you so much for your support! 😃

[@rprojectonline]

This goes beyond just creating Christmas lights. Thank you for sharing your game/knowledge and producing easy-to-follow walkthrough guides. This channel is a gem!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@drift3dorbit]

This was amazing. I'm not a beginner but the fact you explained everything, anyone starting out can follow this too. It's good to understand geo nodes a bit more and think about other applications of the nodes used

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you liked it!

[@philmprod]

WOUAH wouah ! wouah !! C'est la guirlande parfaite pour blender. Personne ne peux faire mieux ! Bravo !

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like it!

[@Scotsloch]

I May sound selfish but, I am very glad you have these tutorials on KZbin. Sorry I can't support you financially but, some of us don't have means to do so... I have never downloaded any of your work files so, no guilt here. I fill in the blanks that I learn along the way and feel much better about my work knowing I do not have to use anything but your tutorials.. That being said, I do appreciate the tutorials and have of course voiced my appreciation many times and will continue to do so. Thank you from the poor side of the nation my brutha..lol.. and Merry Christmas my friend..

[@RyanKingArt]

No problem! I understand that not everyone can support financially. Watching my videos, commenting, liking, and all that really helps me out too, because it helps my content get out to more people on KZbin. 😀 Merry Christmas!

[@Scotsloch]

@@RyanKingArt you're one of my featured channels. Always will be. Thanks again for sharing and helping those of us that would otherwise have no chance. You rock Ryan.

[@Gregory_Harshfield]

Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome! thank you for your support!

[@Gregory_Harshfield]

@@RyanKingArt It was an outstanding tutorial that has multi-purpose uses, e.g. vines, telephones wires etc. (On a side note, and I know this is not Blender relevant, but are you going to see Avatar?)

[@RyanKingArt]

@@Gregory_Harshfield I never saw any of the Avatar movies.

[@Gregory_Harshfield]

@@RyanKingArt You are preaching to the choir. I admire the VFX, who are probably working overtime, but the stories are not compelling. Even if you haven't seen any Star Wars movie, you can name characters and quote it. How many can do that with an Avatar movie?

[@rjwh67220]

You’ve done it again, another excellent tutorial. I’m of the “Bah, humbug!” persuasion, but your techniques are always applicable to so many non-xmas things.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@biwo]

You're the best! These lights are looking gorgeus!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@All2D-BaL]

Bro, your tutorials are gold. I can't thank you enough for these.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@andresye7992]

Hey Ryan, could you make a Christmas landscape with snow ?.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the video idea 👍‍

[@MitazasAlways]

We are waiting!

[@guttersnipe77]

Such a clear and concise tutorial. I could follow nearly all of it by audio alone😊

[@RyanKingArt]

glad to hear that! thanks for watching. 😃

[@v1t3r]

Now after Ornaments and lights completed time to make some tree:) Thank you Ryan! Great tutos as always!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it! Merry Christmas!!

[@v1t3r]

@@RyanKingArt now we need to make it blink)

[@isaac-alves]

I'm 37 minutes in and I need to say that this is an excellent tutorial to get your head around Geometry nodes. Great video @ryankingart.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like it! Thanks for watching.

[@blenderstuffs]

Amazing 🤩🤩

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@blenderstuffs]

@@RyanKingArt please help me out, actually we press ctrl b and select the part which we want to render right, but how to undo that??

[@HAMZAKHALIDCH]

Thank you😍

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome! Merry Christmas!

[@PhilR0gers]

This is briliant! I needed this a few years ago (but Geometry Nodes were not available then), and it took me ages to get it right by modelling by hand. Thanks Ryan.

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@alisha_D]

You explain everything so well, thank you for this tutorial!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@Deboraas]

Thank you for this tutorial, it was so easy to follow and I had so much fun in the process.

[@RyanKingArt]

Merry Christmas!

[@TonyIsCool45]

Wow! I definitely need to use this in some project!

[@RyanKingArt]

hope you like it!

[@TonyIsCool45]

@@RyanKingArt It's great!

[@IRONMAN36554]

your a hero in blender keep making more amazing blender videos everything i hear in this video makes my blender skill more better and to comeplete this tutorial

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it

[@essielucero90]

From time stamp 1:04:10 onward is how you do bloom after blender 4.2 update.

[@RyanKingArt]

Yes thats right. the bloom was sadly removed from Blender.

[@essielucero90]

@@RyanKingArt do you happen to have a video on exporting/saving objects? I tried to export the lights, but only the bezier curve shows up when I import it to a different scene. Any advice is appreciated; thank you.

[@RyanKingArt]

@@essielucero90 You can Use Blender's append feature to add the lights into another Blender file.

[@shihansenavirathna7347]

Thank you for being so generous Mr Ryan. Thanks a lot.

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@robertprescott9577]

This is amazing, I learned so much. Thank you so much!!!

[@Pacn8r-Pac]

Can you make a new christmas light tutorial? I tried to follow along but with all the changes due to the updated, it doesn't work right anymore. I know the bloom and stuff is now found in composition. But when making the colors for the lights is only shows this white light on the color ramp and doesn't show any other colors. There are a few other differences that I can't seem to figure out to make the christmas lights work correctly. So if your in the christmas spirit and want to make another video that would be great. Thanks

[@donaldwilliams1301]

agreed, I guess i have to change my blender version every time i learn something new lol. maybe add which version you are using at the beginning so i know which one i have to install for this tutorial. taking hours and hours to get them sorted

[@valenciasainz]

Great tutoring as always, very well explained and easy to follow. Thank you for the tutorial Ryan. Merry Christmas to everyone. ☃️ ❄️

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you for watching! Yes, Merry Christmas everyone!! 😃

[@MrWannabeartist]

Terrific, I can at last see what is being done with the geometry nodes in this tutorial. Great setup for viewers.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it John!

[@tonygr11]

Great work, Ryan! I feel this is one of the funnest projects you have done to date - very creative 🙂

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@michael_hackson_handle]

Just 2 minutes in wanting to learn more for my Christmas project and seeing all this content. What a champ! 🎄🎄

[@RyanKingArt]

Happy holidays!

[@SibanandaPradhan762104]

Thank you so much, Ryan. ❤️

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@Smithy_Toons]

I liked using Eevee a lot for my cartoons, but recently I used cycles to follow one of your tutorials, and now I am using it all the time, Thank you, and Merry Christmas Ryan King, Your Christmas Light Tutorial was awesome !!! 🎄👍

[@RyanKingArt]

Merry Christmas!!

[@HaloFan-dv4lg]

you posted this just in time! I've been looking for a good tutorial on this and couldn't find a good one. Thanks for another amazing tutorial!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching! 👍‍

[@LarsRichterMedia]

Thank you, exactly what I needed. This has saved me a lot of time. Purchased!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!!

[@threedddblend]

Great tutorial, thank you very much for your work!👍👍👍

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@paulkuykendall5584]

That was one of the best ones yet. Great for modeling, nodes and shortcuts. I still have so much to learn (Blender is all about shortcuts). That was a christmas gift to me.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it. Thanks for watching!

[@Penguincop24]

Really useful tutorial. Great tutorial for people trying to learn Geometry Nodes.

[@kristyb_]

Thank you soooo much, merry Christmas!

[@RyanKingArt]

Merry Christmas!

[@corndoq]

Merry Christmas I just finished and very happy with the results

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it. Merry Christmas!

[@Emsw613]

Hey Ryan, thank you for making this. This was one of the most well-explained tutorials I've seen. This may be a stupid question (I'm a beginner), but do you happen to have a video on exporting/saving objects? I tried to export the lights, but only the bezier curve shows up when I import it to a different scene. Any advice is appreciated; thank you.

[@ra3oon684]

Same problem, do you already have a solution?

[@Gredran]

I took a break from Blender for various reasons and what better way to jump back in than to realize you’ve been teaching Geo Nodes! Thanks for the Christmas theme! You’re always awesome!

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you very much!

[@OzivandoFernandes]

Very Very thanks, Ryan.

[@vice-grip]

So useful! I will be using this to make a cheerful banner

[@RyanKingArt]

cool!

[@Peter25Z]

Amazing! so easy to follow and I had no issues when I was creating it!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad to hear that! thanks for watching.

[@Peter25Z]

@@RyanKingArt i do have one question! If i wanted to have 2 separate string of lights with 2 different color sets how would i do that? I tried to make a string of lights with different bulbs but they were all controlled from the same place.

[@Licko_215]

Hi, Ryan! This tutorial like a Christmas magic! Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@mrdixioner]

Thanks a lot! To automatically join multiple nodes together, select them and press Ctrl+0 (zero), and a Join Geometry node will be created. Good luck!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tip! I forgot about that shortcut 👍‍

[@andrewdeacon4384]

Thanks Ryan - great job. Really interesting tutorial.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching 👍‍

[@The_Olive_Tree_1079]

This was an amazing tutorial thank you so much for this.

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@IgorsJefimovs]

Great tutorial, as always 👍 Just one question, not about particular video, but general question about scaling. I did some of your tutorials and noticed, that all models are just not real world scale. Why? E.g. dumbell grip is 4 meters long, cocoa cup about 6 m high, christmas light bulb 11 cm long and so on. That's not a problem for particular single scene, but if I want to re-use models in other project then I have to scale imported models and sometimes it is difficult to get proper scale ratio with other objects. What do you think about that?

[@MadstonMagic]

Yay! Geometry nodes! :D

[@RyanKingArt]

Yep! 👍‍

[@irlis2013]

👍👍👍 Super!!!! Thanks!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@NocturnalAmbience]

This was my first entry into geometry nodes and wow, thank you so much for this!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@petterstone7808]

You are my hero.

[@AndyTheMartian-626]

This is a great exercise for learning geometry nodes better! Thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it. thanks for watching!

[@wendelinnugent68]

Such a great tutorial, thank you for all you do.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@mrowe12340]

Hey Ryan awesome tutorial thanks. 2 years ago I did my first blender tutorial, which was your Hot Coco tutorial & since then I've been hooked. I've done many of yours since, Thanks for passing on all your top knowledge :D

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching my videos!

[@austeria23]

Thank you SOOOOO much! This was so helpful.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@abtarget1436]

Nice 👏

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks👍‍

[@SunterSun]

Hello Ryan, Thanks for the tutorial. Learned new skills.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@SunterSun]

@@RyanKingArt Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I wish you all the best and good health in the new year. my video link kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6nFhnWVedtkY8U

[@Alexander_Haplington]

Very nice1 I personally suck at geo-nodes, so this is always a great help! Thank you and a merry december!

[@RyanKingArt]

Merry Christmas! hope you enjoy the tutorial.

[@toapyandfriends]

You are so nice to do this for people I'm making a big Christmas scene and buying it would help to have an even faster workflow... Merry Christmas.. I love when people provide their project files even if it's just a 3 buck that makes for the fastest workflow... 😀' Hey I got a three buck!... 😎' Why I've got a 3-buck-tu!

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@ramanrafiq7888]

Freaking awesome thanks man!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@ZayxSt]

Thank you very much, love all your tutorials, you're definitely one of the best explaining everything

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them! thanks for watching.

[@anthonyleichtweiss]

Amazing, thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@khawinx]

thank you for sharing this awesome tutorial

[@RyanKingArt]

You are welcome! Merry Christmas!

[@WibleWobble]

eyyyyy you did my idea thing!! just finished making this and they look awesome, now i can make a christmas cabin

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah! Hope you like it!

[@rohitsk5858]

THANK YOU BROTHER

[@RyanKingArt]

You are welcome!

[@lassekalhauge4801]

It's totally awesome, Ryan. Thank you so much for such a great work. Merry Christmas and best regards from Denmark 🙂

[@RyanKingArt]

Merry Christmas!

[@sakharovs]

Amazing!!! Best tutor in the Whole Internet!! Puppy delight!!! Only one question: on 26:37, when you delete view node you still can see the final geometry. If you go to edit mode together with geometry you see basic curve. If I delete view node I didn't see final geometry. Basic curve only... Blender 4.0. Is it normal?

[@Cyprus.themochaccino]

i dont understand how your curve straightens out when you type in 45 when mine just gets more crooked

[@pauldobbles679]

im new to Geo nodes and this was super helpful for a render challenge im doing. thank you sir

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@UnknownGuest220]

Nice

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@rabeeossman]

You are really professional

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you : )

[@georgeflores3361]

What a boss 🙌

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@willclark7631]

Very cool! Is there a way to animate the lights twinkling?

[@KASSISHOT]

Sorry, I know this is kind of late but what you could do is keyframe the emission value on the light material, and then in the curve editor you can add an f curve modifier for noise and play with those values a bit and you will get a twinkling effect.

[@mattfenner9457]

This was so great Ryan, thank you. One thing I was hoping you would cover was how to make the random element of the light colour a set sequence, so no adjacent bulbs would be the same colour and would follow a set factory pattern. I'm guessing a Math node of some kind between the object info and the Color Ramp? Perhaps a Modulo function, but I'm fairly new to this so thought I would ask.

[@CreepersAdmin]

Ryan I love your tutorials! I have a question as I am fairly new to geometry nodes. How would I make the color ramp apply in a repeating pattern instead of random? Or possibly add a control that allows for random colors or repeated colors? This way the red/green pattern repeats or the colorful pattern repeats constantly.

[@ustoopia]

This is great! THanks

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@pfeuer]

Thanks !!! I tried to convert to curve to mesh adding "Realize Instances node", all it´s ok on convert but the not randomize and all are with the same color of emission on material light. So i only exported the wires and used particles (duplicating the bulb some times) to randomize the colors! thank you, always helping us !

[@RyanKingArt]

ahh ok. thanks for watching!

[@KismetBP]

Crazy Awesome! ❤🤘

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@riuken1234]

Hi Ryan thanks for the video, since I have to do the Christmas tree again, this look like a nice update.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@ridmajary2105]

Thank you sir

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@kodiakcreativity6512]

Great tutorial! Fantastic result and easy to follow. thanks! If I wanted to make the lights blink, what's the best way to go about that? I can keyframe the emission strength of the material, but that would have to be done by material, so every green light in the scene would always blink at the same time for example. Creating separate materials would solve that but things can get complicated depending on how many strings of lights are in the scene. Is that just the way it has to be or is there a more optimized way to do this? Any possible way to add twinkling effects with geometry nodes also or is that beyond what geometry nodes can do?

[@themurrays2266]

Hey Ryan! Amazing video. I purchased the original version and implemented it to my scene quite well, but neebie question…what's the easiest way to replace your previous version in my scene with the new version? I'd like to try twinkling lights and do an animated scene. Thanks in advance buddy.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for purchasing! You can append in the new geometry nodes modifier, into your blender file, and then just delete the old geo-nodes from the curve, and add the new geo-nodes to the same curve.

[@nart658]

Thank you for your work Ryan. Please can you create video how to make more realistic render in Cycles, please?

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tutorial idea.

[@RyanKingArt]

@@drpepa09 thanks for the idea 👍‍

[@pranavk2888]

If you want quick random colors instead of a color ramp node add a hue saturation node for quick colours

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks! 👍‍

[@Stellajo76]

Wow! I'm a beginner & making Christmas lights is much less daunting, especially the nodes, thank you for you this great tutorial :) Is there a way to make these lights blinking please?

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching! I've gotten quite a few people requesting blinking or flashing lights, so I may make a tutorial on that.

[@Stellajo76]

@@RyanKingArt that would be awesome, thank you!

[@SarahDeloney]

I tried to follow another video you posted on making Geometry nodes into meshes and it's not working for me for this tutorial I followed you on. How can I convert this into a mesh so I can bring this into Unity? Thank you!

[@etoiledoll]

Did you ever find an answer? I'm doing something similar with vines. When I convert my curves to mesh, the leaf objects I had attached in the nodes just disappear.

[@SarahDeloney]

@@etoiledoll I stopped looking bc I couldn’t convert it. I have no clue why mine keep disappearing. It’s a bummer.

[@joepacn8r]

For the Random Value of Rotation of the lights, can you use tau instead of 100.00 for Max x, y, z?

[@RyanKingArt]

Ahh yeah, I'm not very math oriented. 😄 thanks for the tip!

[@joepacn8r]

I've learned so much from watching your stuff. After a work related accident I'm left trying to figure out what to do? All my knowledge was spent laboring for 30 yrs. Before blender I think I was going in the direction of giving up. At almost 52 yrs old I have to relearn everything and I am trying to figure out what I can do for work now. Blender seems to be the thing that gives me the highest hope of one day making a paycheck again without having to leave home since I'm on meds and my back is fk'd. Your tutorials made Blender so easy for a medicated man to understand that I think if I stick to this I may have a shot. Thanks and I will support you as soon as I can, promise. @@RyanKingArt

[@PaulDixon]

These lights are super cool (I purchased them)! I just wish I could figure out how to export them with a transparent background and keep the bloom effect.

[@Scotsloch]

Brilliant tutorial Ryan. I just finished this tutorial and am now able to add lights to whatever I desire. Question: I was going to add a fresnel node to the glass shader but, realized that maybe that node doesn't work well with Evee? Is that correct?

[@cocamaster0]

You are awesome.

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you : )

[@mrkoddy]

Is it possible to make this one without geometry node? Which modifier should you advice so it wraps around the wire?

[@sarahluv6228]

Loved this tutorial! Is this fairly similar to the technique you would use to texture different patterns onto something like clothing? Spots, stars, stripes, etc? Instead of switching which color is plugged in, you switch the pattern?

[@RyanKingArt]

are you talking about the geometry nodes, or the shader nodes?

[@sarahluv6228]

@@RyanKingArt um I'm wondering if you could use the technique here (from geometry nodes) To do a similar effect with a pattern, either through geometry nodes or shader nodes

[@Bahuuba]

Excellent tutorial! Really smooth to follow along and a very good intro to Geo nodes. I'm wondering if it's possible to use it as a base to make some kind of Ivy plant to add on various projects, the only part I havent figured is how to make "sub branches" so it's not just leaves on 1 stem

[@RyanKingArt]

Yeah I'm sure you could use this to make Ivy or some type of plant.

[@alemakhoul4899]

ryan, if i wanted to use a modeled profile to follow the curve, instead of the "curve circle" what should bring up??

[@SquirreltailAnimation]

Two things: 1) Due to addons the version I'm using is 3.0. Do you know if this geometry node setup works in that or only in 3.4? 2) For a lot of nodes I make that are similar to your "lights" one where you have many outputs with different effects is I create the various colors then "connect them" with various math nodes set to "comparison: maximum" and increasing with 1, 2, 3, etc with the threshhold. That way, I just hook up the node once and can just select the number that is the setting I want, rather than connecting nodes and potentially waiting a bit for Blender to think.

[@RyanKingArt]

I just opened up the Christmas lights file in blender 3.0, and everything seems to work fine. So as far as I know, it should work in 3.0. Thanks for the tip about the math nodes. I will have to try that out sometime. 👍‍

[@juliaalder2007]

If I want to convert it to mesh with "realize instances" to apply the modifier the materials of the lights are gone. If I don't use realize on mesh and apply the modifier, then all the lights are gone. :( Is there any solution?

[@thefroggygamer7066]

lets go Ryan

[@devthakur2810]

Bro could you please tell me how we can simulate this Christmas light ? Like rope