Falling Dominoes with Geometry Nodes | Blender 3.0 Tutorial

[@inventify_club]

Tip: u can use a float curve node for custom fallof instead of linear fallof which will fix the problem of the dominoes in front starting to lean before they are touched by any other domino

[@Khamurai]

Nice tip, thanks!

[@incoodla]

excuse me! Where to put the float curve node? Index -> math node -> float curve -> map range?

[@CornFerret_]

Saw this on reddit. Thank you for posting both the dominoes and the looping tutorials.

[@Tremori_A]

This is gonna be perfect for my suspenseful domino train building anime

[@CalmDownPanda]

What a creative tutorial ! Suffer taught !

[@FilmSpook]

Thanks, man, you're Awesome!! 10/10 😊😊

[@Delphinus88ca]

Thank you for this easy to follow tutorial. The power of geometry nodes never ceases to amaze me. I posted my result on my KZbin channel, and credited your tutorial in the description.

[@UnopenedParachute]

You just NUKED my mental status. My mind is totally kaput from watching the instance on points node activate.

[@RajeshJustaguy]

this looks awesome. im going to try this

[@Khamurai]

Nice, good luck! :D

[@touchstone1682]

Awesome!!!!!

[@sander-wit]

Cool tutorial! Tip: you could just bevel the box to get the round corners in stead of using subdiv and loop cuts. It would save on many verticles. You could also add a small random z rotation to each domino after falling to make it more realistic.

[@Khamurai]

Very good tips 👍

[@GdnationNY]

this is great! What do you think the drawback of this method is vs the classic way using the physics? Is there a way to create the falling action using physics?

[@hugo54758]

Super Neat !

[@Khamurai]

I thought so too!

[@MetalAnimeGames]

Thank you for the tutorial! Very informative. If I wanted to use the geometry nodes only to create the instances of the models (and not the animation) in order to appy the modifier and then animate all dominos with rigid bodies... How Would we do that? When I try to apply the modifier, it says it needs to convert the curve to mesh, but that leads to all the parts dissapearing.

[@Khamurai]

I haven't tried this for this example, but of you add a realize instances node at the end before converting to a mesh it might be enough to fix it. If that doesn't work I will take a look at a solution tomorrow and get back to you so let me know if it works

[@MetalAnimeGames]

@@Khamurai Thank you very much for your very quick responce. Your suggestion did solve it! Then in edit you can seperate by loose parts and have "part" being a seperate model. But the realize instance node seems to be messing up the random material distribution for me.

[@blackswan6386]

epic

[@blendercomp]

cool stuff! :)

[@Khamurai]

Thank you!

[@jeffzhang419]

Not sure why my dominos keep turning black for one frame when rendering. Any idea why?

[@Sixstring65adgmail]

Very good explanation what each node does!

[@evankirsh]

I can't get past the picking instancing step, using the random value node. When I do it just as you do, no only are the colors randomized, but also the spacing between objects, creating small clusters of 2 -5 objects with larger spaces in between. I've just started with cubes as a test. Here's a screenshot: i.imgur.com/yLeFf9Z.png

[@Khamurai]

What happens if you enable "Reset Children" in the collection info node?

[@evankirsh]

@@Khamurai Amazing! haha that did it, thanks man, awesome tutorial!

[@Khamurai]

Sweet, I assume that the cubes aren't located at the origin of the scene (or at least one of them) so they get instanced at an offset to each other which might explain the gaps, so resetting children treats their locations as if they are at the origin