Distribute Objects using Weight Paint-Geometry Nodes (Blender Tutorial)

In this Blender tutorial I will show you how to Distribute Objects on a landscape, in just specific spots, using weight painting and Geometry Nodes.
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0:46 3d Setup
1:24 Geo-Nodes Setup
7:05 Weight Painting
1:59 Closing
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[@RyanKingArt]

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[@trishaanagarwal8412]

I was creating a landscape in blender and this tutorial popped up, awesome timing Ryan

[@RyanKingArt]

Hope you find it helpful! 😀

[@made.online2149]

Note: Weight Painting requires vertices to work. If you're working on a flat plane like I was, apply a simple Subdivision modifier to it a for 6-7 passes to get enough geometry for decent weight painting.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for the tip!

[@scatterbrainart]

Thank you Ryan King. You are, in fact, the king.

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you for your support!

[@chrismartindale3193]

Another great Job. I needed a high-country pine forest. I made a 100$ mistake with a popular terrain software. It was imposable to use. (Programmers should never design interfaces or write documentation. ) Also, the tree assets were not what I wanted. So, I went to Polyhaven got some really good pine trees and used this tutorial to distribute them. Worked out great,

[@VikTheViking]

Your tutorials are always crazy good - thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@cgxprabir858]

The best blender teacher 🙏 sir your all tutorials are amazing, you taught in so deep it clears our all concepts 🙌 and the way you teach us is something that i love the most amongst all other tutorial channels.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching!

[@Shivakisa]

I like your tutorials. You explain well and your way of speaking is just nice :) keep on going!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you! I appreciate it.

[@bubulcumcum98]

wow what a coincidance, i need this for my project and your tutorial drops. thanks a lot😂

[@RyanKingArt]

Cool! 👍‍ Hope you find the video helpful!

[@Aidenjh11]

What a great tutorial. Not a wasted second. Subscribed.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Aidenjh11]

@@RyanKingArt Very well deserved.

[@grahamconsidine8229]

@ryankingart I always appreciate the little extra info that you add like holding shift to make. movements more sensitive. well done sir thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it was helpful!

[@exorcist3d99]

I love you, this is my favorite way to come close to c4d's scatter. Tysm

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching!

[@rubberdog]

Awesome tutorial and easy to follow ....geometry nodes for the win!! A big thanks from Scotland.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching 😀

[@nemecsek2153]

Thank you so much for all these super tutorials, cheers!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them! Thanks for watching.

[@DerFinder]

very helpful and easy to follow, thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@andysutton]

Thanks! As someone who is just getting into Goe Nodes - this was just what I needed.

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@stephenmendoza7745]

Thanks! Really good content

[@RyanKingArt]

thank you for your support!!

[@umarmi1495]

You have explained it in the easiest way I would say. Much appreciated work dear Ryan.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@_Unpleasant_]

I was wondering how people did this, thank you so much!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@TheDeadKingsRaven]

Great video as usual.

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you Chris!

[@fabriceburgos4618]

saved my life

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@Dmedvedew]

Woah! At last! You explained it! Thank you so much! I mean it!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@lolathepinky4857]

Yuppp the tutorial really was helpful ! thanks so much for teaching us about geometry nodes !

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@maxlevelspeed]

Thank you very much! This was all I needed in one video. Big thumbs up for slow pace as non native in english :)

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@philipmcdonnell7168]

Thanks Ryan. I'm building a landscape right now (the painful way - vertex by vertex almost - because it's a fictional landscape with no GIS but the creator did very detailed contours to all the mountains) and I need to add a tree-line rivers, roads, lakes, etc so weight painting with geometry nodes may be a way forward for me on my Ivy Lake GPU MacBook Pro 2012. :) Should only take until next year to render...

[@RyanKingArt]

Cool 👍‍

[@deiniou]

That was one of the best tutorials I have ever seen, I did not skip any part, I did not have to!!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@deiniou]

@@RyanKingArt oh yeah, been using blender for.. 10 years now, or more, and I am so late to the party. Is taking me so much to even grasp geometry nodes, so your tutorial was a perfect introduction for me!

[@fouadkazem1270]

Thank you Ryan, very helpful, this is what I asked about before, really thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful.

[@deadman-zc5ro]

Thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@guillaumec3d662]

Thanks ! Great tutorial, simple and quite clear. 🙏

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@neozhou9591]

Super well explained, thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks for watching. 😀

[@Robolord123]

Very helpful and to the point tutorial! Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@habhsnahjauxk748]

you’re the best

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@tomtruyens9804]

Thanks for this, to the point and easy! A lot of other videos I found were way too convoluted..

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Fleischkopf]

Exactly what i was looking for. thanks very much mr king art :D

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@skyvendik]

Thank You for this tutorial, there is all what I want to know to start landscaping, great

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@chx99]

Thank you so much. I really like all your tutorials! :D

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you like them!

[@IanLetarte]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much.

[@RyanKingArt]

You are welcome!

[@Guilherme5988]

Great tutorial!

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!

[@tomasbrechler9299]

amazing tut, thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad you liked it!

[@user-cp4xw8mi5d]

Thanks! Nice tutorial

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome! thanks for watching!

[@drumSick66]

Exactly what I needed, thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad it helped!

[@n4thanstewart]

excellent Blender tutorial, thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

glad you like it!

[@icesupport]

Thank you so much! ❤

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@ibrahimayad6732]

Thank you so much.

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@Kayesi3D]

This video is very helpful!

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad to hear that. Thank you for watching.

[@vincentleroux8383]

Thanks a LOT ! Exactly what I was looking for and allowed me to do what I wanted with geo nodes. Thanks, A LOT. :D

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it helped!

[@flashgordonrocks]

thank you!🙌

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@yecomer8577]

Thank. You.👍

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching! 👍‍

[@antonioreis7629]

Thank you very much!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome! 👍‍

[@madjepjep]

awesome

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@TomasHradckyComposer]

Wonderfully helpful.

[@RyanKingArt]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jeremypajotart]

You're the best Blender teacher

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks!

[@fonzjedelarosa7587]

Thanks!

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@agyab_cg]

Love it ❤️

[@RyanKingArt]

Thank you!

[@youngVegeta2]

Hey great Vid. Just a quick question. I made a land scape using a grid node and I don't have the group input plugged in. however it is making it so I can't weight paint on it. how should I go about fixing this?

[@ramyissa20]

I made it and saved it as an asset and now my life is easier by 15%

[@LowBudgetStudiosMario]

thank you

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@gabrielmoro3d]

Wish I could use those as attributes the same way we use vertex colors in nodes. Easy.

[@RyanKingArt]

me too! That would make things a lot more easy. I wish Blender had a weight paint node, that would let you just select your different weight paints. Then you could just plug it into other nodes.

[@gabrielmoro3d]

@@RyanKingArt this! Plus it's super confusing and there's no way to know you can even do it just by working on the node window.

[@AudreyGoncalves-]

You're the goat.

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks : )

[@phalhappy8612]

can u help show a similar way by masking with texture instead of weight paint?

[@codeBlock786]

Ryan, many thanks for this tutorial. I don't seem to figure out as to why my collection info node is only showing 'instance' as the output instead of 'geometry' in your case. I have checked this in 3.6 and 4.0 both. Also, perhaps due to this reason when I render it in Cycles I only see a single instance in render output whereas I see my plane fully populated with all the instances.

[@nabilali]

thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

You're welcome!

[@MR-br2uv]

THX!!!

[@RyanKingArt]

your very welcome!

[@byAndreasEkberg]

Now, I get it : )

[@RyanKingArt]

👍‍

[@johnsmith56920]

Great tutorial as usual. I encounter a slight problem when I do this: The density is the same if the paint is green, light blue or red. Is it just me or is it that I missed a turn somewhere? What I want is to have a fuull density factor when it is red, a 50% where it is green and so on. Is this even possible with vertex groups?

[@socialofficial5247]

thank uu

[@RyanKingArt]

you're welcome!

[@user-fn3dt2ec7g]

Thank you for the tutorial, one question if you have time. When you add the nature instances they add to the top of the group input, but when I add them, they are added in the middle of the grid. They can be moved up with a transform node but this doesn't work if the objects are of different sizes Is there anything you can think of I have missed?

[@RyanKingArt]

the objects will be instanced on the plane by there origin point. so make sure the origin point of the objects are on the bottom.

[@user-fn3dt2ec7g]

@@RyanKingArt Thank you! this has helped me a lot

[@6TheBACH]

Quick noob question: How can I make real the instances when exporting for Unity/*random game engine* ? I'm not a fun of Polybrush, so for me any alternative is worth trying. Thank you!

[@RyanKingArt]

yes, I have a tutorial on that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpayfWutl613jJI

[@choize9762]

how can I add more objects from another collection. For example, I want to add more elements on a plane but I want to paint them in a different position. 🤔

[@assemble3d704]

Loved This. Could we particularly convert just ground plane into shadow catcher or hide as emitter, so that we can get more realistic shadow of grass on our ground plane ?

[@jaypandya7759]

Thanks for this beautiful tutorial. After applying the geometry node in modifiers, all of my objects scattered on lane get disappeared. Please help me

[@RyanKingArt]

I have a video on how to fix that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpayfWutl613jJI

[@jaypandya7759]

Thank you so much it really helped me ❤️

[@EMB3D-du6zn]

how can you export the weight painted colors to texture, along with the UVs?

[@MohammadUsman-wb4eq]

Hi Ryan, I have a question, I'm following all your steps and all, but from the moment I connected group input to joint geometry, my object is still invisible. Can you help?

[@jonggoon51]

I want to collectioned the objects to which each modifire is applied and call them up as an instance. If I apply Modifire to an object, my computer can't handle it. So I can't touch the Modifire. To do so, I know that it can be solved by putting it in a "collection", but if I put it in a "collection", the location value of the object changes. How do I make the location value of an object unified by a collection equal to the origin of the object? plz help me...

[@andreibogdanbojescu4221]

My weight paint covers both sides even if the setting front face only is enabled and the fallof shape is set to sphere... Help?

[@ArnelHinson]

I installed a free add on which is biome reader, can i use weight paint to it? So i can control the grass location.

[@itsjes3d]

thanks for the tutorial! I have a question about this.. Is there any way that we can use an image like you do with pbr maps (procedurally creaded preferably) to weight paint? instead of using a brush over the model. I would like to tell the weight paint to follow the image placed on the uv map for exaple, am I being delusional?

[@vuk8550]

Is there a way to use a black and white image to drive the weight paint map? I know that it should work in theory, but I have no idea how to set it up. Cheers, tnx

[@kennethkam9747]

Hi Ryan, @ time 8:33, I can not find the "input attribute toggle" in blender 3.3..any suggestion will be much appreciate. Thank you for the video, very helpful!! Nevermind...I pug into the wrong input...Got it

[@scottmayson]

How can you do this if using "instance points" on an ico sphere?

[@samanhaghgoo1474]

Niceee

[@RyanKingArt]

Thanks!

[@MarkReategui]

8:05 the crucial part I always forget about. Not sure why I'm always trying to drag and drop the Vertex group into the geometry nodes haha!

[@RyanKingArt]

Ahh yeah. I wish that Blender had a vertex group node that we could use instead.

[@Interloper_32388]

Hey man, Blender keeps crashing on me when I go to change it to disk. I have to leave it on random, which populates trees but a lot of them. I wondering how I might be able to control the density of my trees after connecting to weight map. As you loose the controls when you plug in the group point on random.

[@user-xl3lc2yf1g]

Why in the beginning the scale is so messed up? What to do if I need the objects ti spawn the exact same size they are in the collection?

[@steliosziantaris]

Perfect tutorial. But what if I want weight paint a different collection? How can I paint in the same plane in different areas? Can someone help me?

[@RyanKingArt]

You can add multiple weight paints, by going to the Object data properties, and adding multiple vertex groups. Then you can select and paint each one, and use them both in the Geo-Nodes setup.

[@gdematteis9023]

Great tutorial - I've listed to many and everyone were excellent. If you have the time, one question - do you have to crank up density before you weight paint. Using weight is great but how do you increase the density of the areas you paint?

[@RyanKingArt]

Turn up the density max value on the Distribute points on faces node.

[@gdematteis9023]

...thank you

[@tinman3000]

Awesome! Bye bye particle systems. Mostly...

[@RyanKingArt]

yeah, geometry nodes replaces some of the features of the particle system, but the particle system still has many uses. 👍‍

[@vgcontas6664]

i followed it step by step but with trees (tried different trees) and it just make my 3d object a 2d plane how do i fix

[@andrelopesdasilva6626]

Thank you so much. You helped me a lot!!! I have one question: Can i paint without having the green painin? I mean paint a perfect circle witg red and blue frontier? Can find a way

[@RyanKingArt]

You want to paint a perfect circle? Just make your brush really big, and then click once to make one large dot.

[@RyanKingArt]

Also, change the falloff settings, to make it only values between red and blue. use the constant, on the falloff settings.

[@conorsvfx]

is it possible to use two different weight paint maps?

[@calogiga]

If the weight paint datas have a name, can we do several weight paint datas with different names ? So, we will have for example one painting for the mushrooms, another one for the grass, etc ?

[@evandrooliveira7575]

Very good! I have a doubt. How do I change the position of distributed objects to prevent the displace from overlapping?

[@saadmosar7423]

how to make them cast shadows.. I made trees on a mountain thanks to you.. but they're shadow-less

[@jorgerosas1094]

Thanks this is what I am looking for! Easy and simple. Buuut I have one question, what if I want to scale each object separely?

[@RyanKingArt]

you might need to apply the geo-nodes to a mesh to do that.

[@navich3416]

is it correct to use vertex paint instead weight paint?

[@user-rv4dx1op1i]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@RyanKingArt]

thanks for watching

[@ruk3d]

Strange thing happening, when I connected socket of density fac I don't see any input slots on the modifier tab I'm using this inside node groups maybe this is the reason

[@RyanKingArt]

hmm yeah it's probably because of the node group.

[@supersidgale]

Hey the point group float attribute doesn't appear for me. Do u have any ideas on what to do? I have checked that I followed the tutorial and everything is the same, just no point group float attribute. EDIT: There was no vertex group for the object. Silly me.

[@RyanKingArt]

Ahh ok.

[@Guest_1138]

I can’t get this to work unless I build it exactly like yours. But my set up is more complex than yours. I can’t build the entire thing on one geometry node.. also I have an additional group output which seems to conflict with yours. Can you show how to build it outside of the object geo group?

[@RyanKingArt]

You can get this same effect with the particle system in Blender. I just think Geo-Nodes works better, but the particle system will do it too. I'm sure there is a tutorial out there on KZbin on how to do this with the particle system.

[@Holm55]

My collection is stuck midway on the plane. Any way to raise them up? Also, how can you get 2 different collections on a geomoetry node setup like this? Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. I was missing the object origin on the bottom and a second distribute point on faces node.

[@RyanKingArt]

ahh ok, glad you fixed it!