How to get started with Geometry Nodes in Blender

[@dylanking000archive]

I am overwhelmed by the possibilities of geometry nodes

[@stirrcrazy2704]

I can totally imagine using this to make a procedural city where all the buildings have floors stacked on them using layers of geometry node trees, this is awesome

[@KenanProffitt]

Yes, Great idea! Thanks for watching.

[@michaelwerkov3438]

houdini mini! man, when blender finally exposes all creations, modifiers, inputs and outputs to nodes?! holy hell a blender houdini hybrid

[@chaotickreg7024]

I'm pretty sure somebody has done this

[@tanmaysahu100]

I was watching a lot of videos for the grass particle system and I was really confused but this method is so great that my friend who doesn't know about the blender also understood the whole process. Great video.

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@mattsalt4189]

Took me a good 2 and a half hours to figure out how to drive these with weights, thanks for reliving the problem.

[@onjofilms]

You explained it really well. This seems much more intuitive than particle systems where you have to jump out of particle systems and go over to texture for mapping and then back to particle. This is way cleaner and seems more controllable. Hope you keep going with this series.

[@KenanProffitt]

Yes I find it much more usable than normal particles. Very excited for what this mean for the future! :) Thanks for watching!

[@ZUnknownFox]

I am really loving geometry nodes especially since render times for me have been cut in half compared to particle systems. (I rendered an image using just particles took 6 minutes, swapped the particles out for geonodes and it only took 2.5 minutes)

[@KenanProffitt]

Awesome! Great benchmarks. I had a feeling it was faster but didn't do official tests.

[@jeffg4686]

Geometry Nodes is amazing to say the least. Second after all pablo's new sculpting features. Can't wait to see what they come up with for particle nodes.

[@KenanProffitt]

Hey Jeff, yeah lot's of exciting things coming in the future!

[@arqueoartis]

One of the best explanations about Geometry nodes so far :D Thanx!!

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

[@zalzalahbuttsaab]

Hopefully Node Wrangler will get updated with a key shortcut for the basic nodes for a point distribution. I've watched several videos where guys do the point distribution example and in each case they create the node tree by hand instead of using a shortcut.

[@JPEspulgar]

This the most precise tutorials i found

[@KenanProffitt]

Hey thanks! :D glad it was helpful

[@pledg]

Been away from blender for a while so this has been an excellent introduction into the power of geometry nodes and the theory behind using them. Great video thanks...

[@AdrianChazz]

The frame tip got you a new subscriber... Great tutorial, lot's of insight...! Keep up the great work, man...!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Adrian! :)

[@ImNorman]

So much more control than particles! This is going to be perfect for a future project. Just bought your foliage pack and going to make good use of it. Thanks!

[@KenanProffitt]

Awesome! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial. And thanks for downloading the pack as well. Hope it serves you well. Cheers!

[@diegopadilla4853]

If the blender game engine come back this nodes will be really cool to use

[@KenanProffitt]

Yes! Let's Bring it back haha

[@yussufmberwa3094]

Thanks for the tutorial. I have learned something new.

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to hear it! :)

[@MrCheebs]

Thanks for this. I've been procrastinating learning about geometry nodes and this really helped me get started!

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad it was helpful! :) Thanks for watching.

[@DaToTao]

This is the best geometry node I ever seen, you got my like bro

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks Alexander! :) Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sentient3346]

Man it helped me a lot thanks

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching

[@jbanimations8475]

Thanks for this video!! I hope you make one about the other nodes... 😍😍

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad you enjoyed it. I do plan to do more. It's such an awesome new feature!

[@chrisbowman5910]

Great vid. I, like you have been really hesitant to try the new geometry nodes, but after watching this, I'm going to jump right in next time I'm on Blender.

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to hear it was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@1980sRetroanimation]

So glad I found you bro!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks for watching! :D

[@michaelwerkov3438]

i cannot WAIT until blender exposes ALL creation functions, all modifiers, all objects and relationships, as nodes where all inputs and outputs can all be visually programmed etc... once particles really get updated, some of the 2.49 functionality is returned, and flip fluids/manta fluids and the fracture build are integrated... then we are looking at a package that has a great modeling and sculpting ability, character animation, compositing etc... all within a mini-houdini and ICE/bifrost functionality! oh im so excited. mini houdini open source honest briliantness?! we dont deserve this

[@KenanProffitt]

Hahaha love this comment. Yes, mini houdini open source honest briliantness! lol Thanks for watching! :)

[@EmilioNorrmann]

so simple yet so powerful !

[@KenanProffitt]

Indeed!

[@sennabullet]

Fantastic video. You present the techniques super well...and I can't wait to play with them. Thank you for very much for sharing your knowledge!

[@gsfxmentor]

mind blowing explanation 😍👌

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks! :D

[@rachelhong4435]

Great tutorial!! thank you so much!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks! thank you for watching! :)

[@gianlozano102]

The last second got me 😂

[@KenanProffitt]

Hahaha Props for watching all the way to the end! :)

[@TheXperimenter]

Really well made video, precise and informative. Thanks.

[@KenanProffitt]

Much appreciated! Glad it was helpful!

[@DarrenLGoldsmith]

Great video! Brilliantly explained. With geometry nodes, is there a way to avoid collisions? Andrew's classic doughnut tutorial is a good example, i.e. ensuring all the sprinkles don't intersect.

[@erik....]

If you use "poisson disk"-method in Point Distribute you can enter a minimum distance between points, but of course it only works if you set it to the diameter of your biggest object in your distributed collection

[@DarrenLGoldsmith]

@@erik.... Yes! Was just experimenting with this today. The intersections/collisions problem still exists if you have lots of objects that overload the available space, but it does help!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Darren! I've been playing with the Poisson Disk setting which helps avoid collision.

[@blenderzone5446]

Great instancing with geometry nodes! thanks for sharing mate!

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching.

[@blenderzone5446]

you are welcome mate!

[@nigellill3222]

& for those people who have smashed their computer/laptop in frustration trying to work out how to get the grass (or anything) sitting on the plane instead of half way through it, Click on the grass, go into edit mode make sure all the grass is selected, press G+Z & lift it until the center point is at the bottom of the grass. Go back into object mode & select the plane, the grass or whatever should be positioned exactly on the surface.

[@KenanProffitt]

Yes haha. Thanks for that tidbit. Should have mentioned it in the video. :)

[@nigellill3222]

@@KenanProffitt Welcome. I only mentioned it because when I added the grass to my scene that's what happened. I fixed it easily but I remember days when I couldn't & it frustrated me no end not being able to do something as simple as positioning the grass on the plane. Stay safe, cheers from Australia

[@nikosgeorgiou1341]

Excellent tutorial, very well explained.!! Is there a way we can avoid objects overlapping?

[@blockplayer0026]

In point distribute node you need to change distribution method from "random" to "poisson disk" and adjust Distance min slider

[@kendarr]

@@blockplayer0026 shiiiiieeet really? Man you may have saved me from bumping my intensity

[@chilichickSantaFe]

#blender #blenderhelp

[@sigurjonmyrdal3873]

Very good! Thanks a lot!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thank you for watching! :)

[@DracoTheBlack]

Very cool, I foresee myself playing with this all weekend. When you show the sphere attached to the suzanne it is in the same spot every time. Is it possible to somehow randomize the seed values per instance of an object? I'm thinking things like procedurally generated trees or flowers or whatever assembled from parts. Just layering geometry nodemaps to create a procedural forest where no two plants are exactly alike?

[@hwand7715]

Thank you. It was very helpful.

[@pfeffermartin642]

nice explained

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks! :)

[@jchralos]

Great video. I learned a lot. Only at 10:35 you mentioned the rotation goes from 0 to 360, but it should be in radians (i.e., 0 to 2*pi, or 0 to 6.28).

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Carlos!

[@madshader]

Can we get an updated version of this for Blender 3.0 Geo nodes? It looks like this method will be outdated and no longer possible by 4.0.

[@kendarr]

Thanks mate!, this is a 100% better then particles lol

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Victor! and yes I agree! :)

[@eco1.176]

Nice video buddy 👍

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad you enjoyed, Thanks for watching!

[@JonVlogs123]

Thanks! 👽👍

[@KenanProffitt]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@anishalamansari9887]

Make more about geometry node concepts

[@KenanProffitt]

Hopefully more to come in the future! Thanks for watching.

[@badboogl8529]

@3:40 Ah... good to know this just isn't possible. I did so much fiddling around, google searching, and video watching trying to find out how to do this. Now I can rest.

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to help! thanks for watching

[@Amateratzu]

whith out saying the others are bad somehow.... best geometry node tutorial so far. theres ur hand up and a just join ur channel

[@KenanProffitt]

Thank you! Glad it was helpful!

[@Sylgwael]

Fantastic. Big thank you.

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@carlsnet]

This was Excellent for sure,Kenan.. i need some toturial of Earth Bending In Blender,I don't know whether you can do it for me.

[@kemeraljones]

This tutorial needs to be updated to Blender 3.4

[@KenanProffitt]

Yes it does… hopefully soon!

[@francoisvillemaire773]

So powerfull we are become like gods!

[@KenanProffitt]

Hahah yes

[@Zeix02]

For me, adding one point the point distribute, if the density value greater than 100. I want to make coffee foam. So i have set 1000000, but doesn't look much. The coffee cup is 6cm dia, and subdivided by 3.

[@KenanProffitt]

If you figure that out, send a render. I'd like to see that. Sounds like an interesting test.

[@kendarr]

Did you apply scale?

[@Zeix02]

I have watched Blender Guru video, he added a math node, to multiple the density value. Working now, but the foam material is not look good. Is very difficult...

[@3D-Amir]

haha! Great tutorial but love the ending outtake! XD

[@KenanProffitt]

Haha you are the first to notice! ;)

[@BobMcCarroll]

Great video and so well explained. Thanks.

[@KenanProffitt]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@DanielGGava]

Really good tutorial !! thank you for that. Wonder if there is a way to do smt like this but not intersecting the deplicates.

[@KenanProffitt]

Thank you, Daniel! So far I have found changing it from "Random" to "Poisson Disk" on the point distribute node helps with this.

[@DanielGGava]

@@KenanProffitt niceee, thank you !! going to try it !!

[@abheetrajput]

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!

[@KenanProffitt]

You're welcome! thanks for watching!

[@marclapinff2709]

Good one. Thanks

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Marc! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@bobdobs8855]

Terrific tutorial! I'm wondering if there is a way of making the grasses appear to be swaying from a breeze?

[@KenanProffitt]

Hey Bob! Yes there are a few ways. You’d have to edit or effect the grass assets that are being instanced. You’ve given me a good tutorial idea! 😉

[@bobdobs8855]

@@KenanProffitt And I will be looking forward to that tutorial!

[@craighdolphin]

Really good tutorial. Thanks. I too would love to know about whether it is possible to prevent collisions between the scattered geometry instances. :)

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Craig! As far as I know, the best way so far I have found is to mess with the Poisson Disk Settings in the point distribute node. That seems to work pretty well.

[@Dabbl1ng]

This is amazing, thank you

[@KenanProffitt]

You're very welcome! Glad you liked it.

[@studiopost9762]

I love your tutorial!

[@KenanProffitt]

I'm so glad! Thanks for watching.

[@OscarAdan]

Thank you

[@davidswanson5669]

Is there a way to add a gradient to the vertex group or the point distribute so that scale can be modified? I’m making a sequoia tree and the branches should get smaller the higher up the tree you go. I have 20 branch variations in a collection being used as the nodes.

[@AngelAgudoGuerrero]

Nice tutorial! Thanks, Máster!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thank you for watching!

[@gryffGryff-so3zq]

Try applying the modifier - everything disappears in v2.92. Can't export any creations - an interesting development, but not quite ready for prime time

[@Eliqzar]

I'm curious if you could make an infinite particle loop if you used the monkey head as a reference object on the sphere. Would it reference just the monkey head or will it bring the sphere that was on the monkey head with it, and if it did would it be stuck in a constant loop of generating particles on top of particles until it crashed blender?

[@KenanProffitt]

That would be a great experiment!

[@kdeuler]

Thanks for the concise tutorial. I was wondering: How would you go about making realistic soil between the plants?

[@sonicgeeksquad4g106]

Here’s a good tutorial: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnqQoY2pnbejbsk

[@sonicgeeksquad4g106]

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[@sonicgeeksquad4g106]

Here’s a good tutorial: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnqQoY2pnbejbsk

[@krypto61]

thats a really cool tutorial of geo nodes. I never touched it before because it was a little bit confusing but now it makes really sense :) Question: how would this grass react to force field like wind or in general: how do you simulate it with geo nodes?

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad to hear! So if you had a force interacting with the objects you scattered then that motion would applied to the whole field as well. Thanks for watching!

[@krypto61]

@@KenanProffitt ahhh thats good to hear, thanks a lot :)

[@EXPstreams]

dood, you have SUCH an Andrew Kramer vibe, and I'm very picky about tutorials vids, great job man! consider me subscribed.

[@KenanProffitt]

Huge compliment. Thanks for the watch and the sub!

[@jenovaizquierdo]

Awesome video man. I have a question how can I make it to move like wind blowing to it.

[@kendarr]

How about animating the grass object?, that might work, I don't know if the instancer reads animation, stuff like shapekeys

[@phyominaung5026]

My grasses are not standing along Z axis They're just laying on ground how can I fix that If you help I'll really appreciate

[@moiggc]

Very helpful tut, thanks. I've been searching for a way to reduce the amount of geometry in the view port, but still renders out everything. Is there such a setting within geo nodes? Thanks.

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks for watching, Giom! You could turn the visibility of the geometry nodes modifier off in the modifier settings. That will help your viewport be much lighter...

[@kendarr]

I just reduce the amount while I'm working and turn it back on when rendering, not the best but it works, you can also toogle the modifier, but then I don't see anything and it bugs me

[@enensis]

Does this work well with large scenes I always found blender struggles when you start doing large areas of grass with the scatter addon or the particle system and you had to mess around for ages with paint layers and camera limits to reduce geometry to make it manageable.

[@KenanProffitt]

I found large scale scenes to be much more manageable with this method. Seems more intuitive.

[@priyes9496]

Why my geometry nodes dont have the Point Distribute and the Point Instance :(

[@YASIR.K]

Cool ... Thank you

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks for watching! Geo nodes are pretty sweet!

[@asandadlamini2087]

Thanks so much

[@KenanProffitt]

You're welcome!

[@nealgrieb6660]

It seems faster than particle systems, do you feel that is the case? Maybe I'm just a noob, but I seem to never be able to initially guess the orientation of my instances and can't ever generate enough density to make things look decent without massive slowdowns.

[@kendarr]

I feel the same, another guy in the comments said it halfed his render times

[@justash7]

Love the video mate thanks!!

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@justash7]

@@KenanProffitt got a question, is scattering these things less lagging with geometry nodes than other way which particles system or etc??

[@KenanProffitt]

@@justash7 It feels faster but I'm not sure of the exact clock speeds. I'll need to do more testing.

[@justash7]

@@KenanProffitt allright thanks mate.

[@mrbstudio9388]

I love it

[@gdematteis9023]

...great tutorial!

[@KenanProffitt]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching.

[@dinisdesigncorner332]

how to add a walkpath where no grass grows?

[@KenanProffitt]

Create a vertex group using weight paint and add the name of that group to the density input on the particle distribute node. That should work. :)

[@evgeniismirnov655]

The geo node breaks the uv of scattered objects at the end

[@VMP666]

Hey, any tips about how to animate this grass similiar to how you can use wind and turbulence in particles?

[@KenanProffitt]

I'm personally doing some tests with that now, first thought is to mess with some wave modifiers and weight paint....

[@MrStevenhogg]

how do you link in detail , i pressed link , selected file but it comes up not a library , bought this but have no idea how to access them.

[@ImNorman]

Is there a way to make the geometry node elements react to objects (or each other)? For instance, someone walking through the field and the grass gets stomped down or moves as they walk, or making it sway in a breeze. I tried adding physics, but that applies it to the plane.

[@ImNorman]

I just answered my own question: Apply the physics properties to the individual objects and it applies it whatever is used in the geometry node.

[@blendcreator]

If i´m trying to search things like ,,Point Instance´´ it doens´t appear in the search line. Do you know , what´s the reason for that ? Thanks in advance!

[@Tremori_A]

Blender armature and I just realized the existence of geo nodes. I might be able to increase my framerate with this if I convert my particle hair ghibli grass into this. Do geo nodes also react with forces like wind?

[@SuryaKiranReddy-xx1gb]

no not yet

[@SuryaKiranReddy-xx1gb]

I Might be wrong about this

[@SuryaKiranReddy-xx1gb]

As for my knowledge point instancing doesn't have dynamics sym like default particle hair system

[@evertonfonseca4989]

Thank you for this vídeo Kenan \Ü/...

[@KenanProffitt]

You're welcome, Everton! Thanks for watching.

[@wambman]

node wrangler for geo nodes when?

[@actimations]

Can you create an cache from geoNodes?

[@redratpetrax]

Nice 1 Helpful

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful.

[@redratpetrax]

@@KenanProffitt Still to this time watching TUTS and find always something new.. KEEP ON . :)

[@gipen]

Is there a way to pick objects in the collection in different proportions like the "use count" option in particle systems?

[@arhsm]

U like organizing ur nodes but u cant turn on snapping

[@KenanProffitt]

haha good point

[@MannyFigs]

How are you able to enter edit mode and still see the geometry? When I enter edit mode, it “mutes/hides” any modifier until I go back to object mode. ~ 11:00.

[@MannyFigs]

Interesting, once a distribution node is added with a vertex group set as its density, the added geometry no longer appears in edit mode. I wonder if thats meant to be like that, or they haven’t thought about that process tree.

[@trevtweetz]

Point Distribute and Point Instance are not found in my node library?

[@KenanProffitt]

Hey Trev, Yes the nodes got renamed in newer versions of blender. You can check this video for the updated nodes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/namrdGR_hritmZI hope that helps!

[@johanverm90]

Cool !

[@KenanProffitt]

Thanks, Johan!

[@farid.rabhallah]

The video is geat, but, every thing is changed since V3.0, so they Renamed and delete/ add lot of nodes. Ex: Point distribute = deleted. And changed with: Instances to points Point Instance = deleted also, and changed with: Instance on Points You must add ''Object info node'' if you use "Point Instance". -------------------------- So it will be really appreciate if you do an update of this tutorial. Thank you Sir.

[@fadhil4008]

Is the use of geometry nodes only for point scattering? I mean a lot of tutorials about this node but everything is just the same use

[@KenanProffitt]

As it develops further, there will be more uses. I think right now it's pretty limited.

[@katenguyen5622]

Hi, great tutorial. However why I apply this my objects become very bigs eventhough the original size was small, do you know where it might've gone wrong? thank you.

[@WARDISWARD]

so this is essentially the partical editor but with nodes Most stuff could already be done with the particle editor , no ? Edit: answer @ 04:00 , multipl levels deep instead of just one level in the particle editor

[@AA-hg7xq]

the grass, mushrooms, flowers are all vertical. Randomize the z ?