How to Make Lightning, The Procedural Way || Blender 2.90

[@JoeyCarlino]

NEW lightning video with geometry nodes here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJCtaZxnmqibeNU

[@takeraparterer]

if anyone is having trouble with the lightning becoming a straight cylinder when you set the vertex groups to focus, make sure they are inverted AND go into edit mode, select the bottom vertex, and go into the object data tab, select the focus and hit apply.

[@overlorde7526]

thanks!!

[@lotreez9714]

gj

[@LizardFella2.0]

The myth the legend, the one making sure the tutorial still holds up.

[@foorya4556]

If you cant use ctrl+shift+left mouse at 7:26 , you need to enable addon "node wrangler"

[@melodyyy7954]

u r a life saver man....thank u so much

[@qa38o54]

thank you ☺️

[@g_niac]

it’s bonkers how many possibilities this can be applied to. mind. blown.

[@DoctorMadness]

Spent so long looking for lightning tutorials until I finally found yours, easily the best! Great work, subbed!

[@blackswan6386]

just the best tutorial to make lightning bolts ...awesome + subscribed ! wohoo ! i am thor !!!

[@icarusswitkes6833]

This is absolutely beautiful really well done

[@tdgchan]

This is really true, i've seen people do 2h videos for much worse lighting 10/10

[@mallekgarson9127]

4:09 after hitting CTRLA then 0, hold shift and scroll to adjust proportional size

[@LearningCurveScience]

Cool video, thank you. You have gained my sub for 2 reasons. 1) you use the correct term vertex to refer to a single vertex. 2) The obviously cool Spinal Tap reference

[@alexmellor9455]

I appreciate the emoji at 8:06 for "turn it to 11" lol, made me chuckle

[@aliensoup2420]

Good work. This is the best looking and controllable lightning tutorial I have yet seen.

[@cookiecatman1699]

When scaling with proportional editing make sure that the transform pivot point is set to 3d cursor not individual origins.

[@日天樊]

you saved my ass, thanks

[@Sstadd]

Thank you so much for this incredible tutorial

[@notquitesure]

this is absolutely awesome, thank you

[@qedqubit]

Best Lightning tutorial i've seen so far !

[@zandrewsonnemaker5579]

Cheers man I'm using this for a channel intro and it'll help big boy time

[@方エデン]

When I was connecting nodes, the panel display was different from yours. I found that adding nodes by linking can be the same as you. Very useful, thank you for sharing.

[@nevell6069]

With your tutorial I finally made these damn lightning bolts... Man, you deserve more follorwers ;-)

[@dakotaridge]

EXCELLENT across the board. Couldn't be easier to follow. Thank you for this!!!

[@juia7336]

Great tutorial, thank you!!

[@TechMaster-ug4ft]

Dude you are so epic. I know I found this super late but like still, the way you explain how to do everything, how and why it works is really cool! I really appreciate it because this has actually taught me more about blender. Additionally, you could've just shown us the way to do the one lightning bolt and keep the bridging one just on your gumroad to sell, but no, you didn't you showed us how to do it and why it works, and that's what I like about you.

[@hoangnuongnuong5338]

This is sooooo cool. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much

[@ratzitrax]

Pretty nice tutorial. Easy to understand and to follow along AND it works! Thanks!

[@MrSofazocker]

1-Select the Root Vertex 2-Hook to New Object 3-Select the vertex group it created 4-Weight-Paint 4-Profit- now you have a procural end point you can move anywhere and it deform perfectly.

[@biblioteca3d618]

Yes sir this content is very worth producing! Thanks a lot for your time and knowledge! You are great!

[@Lqvy1]

Used this to make some tesla coil arms

[@brett_fitz4569]

thank you sir

[@nithinkumara2305]

Thank You Soo much for this tutorial

[@mralien9547]

Top tier video. Thank you.

[@thundercg9663]

just amazing what i was looking for thanks man

[@phanjam]

thank u so much for sharing! it's been said, but yes, you are a Wizard!

[@JGMorin]

thank you

[@ramperture]

I learned a lot of useful stuff in this video on top of learning how to make lightning. Really good tutorial, man. Definitely gonna sub.

[@abololo2288]

WONDERFULL!

[@ApeiroProductions]

I came here to learn about lighting. End up learning about a lot of really important awesome things. Thank you. Keep up the good work.

[@Fryzlr]

Wow, what an awesome tutorial. This is beautiful. Thank you so much!!

[@karstenz.8754]

Amazing tutorial and well explained.

[@caram6589]

Goodness that was amazing - I am just a beginner but I could follow along - thank you, great tutorial.

[@deucejm]

wow, 400 to 8.15k. I hope that's a good sign!

[@andrewrichard3490]

Genius! Thanks.

[@Lance_G]

THIS IS LIT AF -Thank you!

[@Jham3D]

Terrific, thank you!

[@cyborganic]

this is great thanks for teaching this

[@DragyDZN]

Really good tutorial!

[@Alex-tn7pv]

Great tutorial!

[@zapfsaeule2]

Super cool! Thank you!!

[@rotajulien140]

super, viewers can strike in the middle with that tips

[@dominicpond]

One way to get a super easy thunder bolt is by just using the ivy generator.

[@mensoon6038]

Spasibo!!! its that method what i looking.

[@khalidlam3647]

amazing tutorial man

[@demon4734]

Really great tutorial thank u

[@JoeyCarlino]

Whatever keeps the Demon happy!

[@jiki3d]

fantastic!! thanks

[@galenlathrem8584]

That's a good one! Love the procedural stuff. You're a wizard. Keep up the great work!

[@ahmedhamoda2748]

Thank you very sharing this knowledge with us :D

[@henrycowdery2688]

This is great! Super helpful and inspiring. I want to adopt this method to animate a river meander/erosion cycle. If you felt like making a tutorial about animating rivers, that would be amazing. But no pressure. Thanks for the great content! You're a wizard.

[@JoeyCarlino]

Thanks Henry!

[@nicolasdionne7237]

Thank you very much man! It's the best tutorial!

[@mr.handsome2455]

nice tutorial

[@toitanalexandru9664]

Just subscribed, keep up the good work!

[@drzigzag8985]

New to your channel Making Moonshine lightning Next Excellent video

[@kyletheinilater4235]

For me, in Jan 2022, i had to enable Proportinal editing, and then from there hit the drop down menu for it and check "Connected only" otherwise it was just changing the width of the whole bolt all at once

[@enasirkofi]

Clean!

[@nonrealitymotions9081]

this is cool

[@sashank_gl]

Thank you : )

[@blasterfish2372]

Good Job!

[@marcdraco2189]

Superb Joey. The only complaint is your audio. I think a lavalier mic would improve your sound greatly. Also, love the Spinal Tap references! I love Big Bottoms!

[@spottedhyenaOwO]

Well done!

[@kodurishiva]

how to get another top vertex also focus at a stable point

[@adityarajput9904]

great content man!!!

[@jackwolfmedia4015]

I'm having trouble exporting it with a transparent background, it's just the emmission that's not exporting, please help!

[@json9865]

Epic thanks.

[@chubbydunkers78]

Okay, so everything was fine until I went to change the vertex group under the displacement modifiers to "focus". Not only did the tip not match up with the origin point, but the whole like butt/thicker end of the bolt straightened out so only the first vertex or two were wavy/wiggly. Does that make sense? I have no idea how to fix it.

[@JoeyCarlino]

It's hard to tell by your comment, but make sure the vertex group has the right name, you might need more vertices too, if you only have a few.

[@JoeyCarlino]

Or maybe you need to invert the vertex group. There should be a little arrow button next to it on the displacement modifier.

[@chubbydunkers78]

@@JoeyCarlino I'll try these when I can sit down at the computer again! Thank you so much! So far everything else is absolutely perfect and I learned a lot from this tutorial!

[@chubbydunkers78]

@@JoeyCarlino It was definitely that I needed to invert the vertex group! Thanks!

[@aranhamiles5648]

tanks

[@sobreaver]

Brilliant !

[@manmadeartists]

Bro this is sooo sick! Your tutorials helped me so much with realizing my projects and they are easy to understand even if i know that I never could come up with something like this by myself! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@danielluisfranco]

This "Toggle Stack" button is a addon? (i'm using 2.93.3)

[@prashish7638]

To go out from the node group press Tab

[@lebenin3604]

Beautiful #cgelectricity . Thank you for showing your workflow. #blender

[@sim2g]

Wow, great channel, good tutorial! Thank you. Big like!

[@whatidoinmyfreetime2289]

nice

[@AG41303D]

SOLID

[@lntredits9486]

can i export them with animations and import into UE5 ?

[@mallekgarson9127]

10:59 How does " Go Out" translate into what button to hit/where to click?

[@JoeyCarlino]

Tab, or the arrow in the top right

[@melodyyy7954]

14:18.....my top and bottom vertex does not stay in place....so when i move middle vertex the whole line moves......can u please help? i did exactly the way u did it....with like the proportional editing n smooth n connected only....i did the exact same thing

[@JoeyCarlino]

Make sure the top and bottom are selected, select the vertex groups and add them, then in the displacement modifiers (all 3) select the vertex group and click the little arrow to invert them.

[@JoeyCarlino]

If you're talking about proportional editing, use the scroll wheel to make the area of influence lower, otherwise, it'll move everything instead of just a few points.

[@Srcsqwrn]

Excellent! I'm glad I subbed now. I'm expecting more cool stuff!

[@juuu-d5g]

10:34 노드 그룹 묶기까지함

[@juuu-d5g]

11:30 키프레임 설정하기

[@trjvail]

when I made the node group, the factor slot was taken off my invert nodes so I can't plug anything into them, any tips to solve?

[@adl1719]

This is a great tutorial so far but I am struggling with the part at 4 minutes where you use ctrl+A with proportional editing on sharp, when I select a single vertex it still changes everything and not proportionally, so setting the first vertex to 0 makes everything 0 and trying to tune it controlling the strength affects all of them equally not the way seen in the video, is there a setting I perhaps missed?

[@JoeyCarlino]

Your area of influence is probably very large. Use the scroll wheel while scaling to make it smaller

[@adl1719]

@@JoeyCarlino Oh I finally figured it out, did the tutorial 3 times and on the third try I selected 'Connected only' for the proportional editing and it works as intended now, sorry for the hassle

[@StarlasAiko]

Subbed

[@bananaboy1100]

Hello! I'm having a problem Exporting the PNG sequence, as my goal is to take my bolt and composite it onto some real footage. Problem is, Rendering the sequence with a transparent background (which I kinda need for compositing), makes the emission / bloom disappear. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks

[@JoeyCarlino]

Thats a tough one. You might have better luck keeping the bloom if you export it with a black background and then add it on top of your other footage. Add might not be the best blending mode, but it would keep the bloom.

[@bananaboy1100]

@@JoeyCarlino Well, it sort of works! As far as slapping the sequence onto regular footage, blending it on using add does keep the bolt and bloom. I don't know how different it would be if I could have rendered it out normally (with transparent background) or if it's the same. After hours of scouring for a solution last night, what I can gather is that Eevee doesn't really support emissions like that, and getting it to work is a pain. I would've happily used cycles but It didn't seem to work either. Oh well, the search continues but at least I have this Add blend in the meantime. Thanks!

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

good

[@nonrealitymotions9081]

how did you enable that toggle stack button at 3:41 ?

[@JoeyCarlino]

There is an addon, I think it's called modifier tools. It's built in, you just have to enable it.

[@nonrealitymotions9081]

@@JoeyCarlino thanks

[@FinalMotion]

this is the best lightning tutorial ive seen. Thank you!!! Is there a way to use vertex parents to be able to control where the lightning originates from and where it hits? like lightning coming from one point and striking another? Thanks!

[@JoeyCarlino]

I haven't tried it, but you could probably do this with a hook modifier or some bones and basic weight painting.

[@FinalMotion]

@@JoeyCarlino yeah I tried it myself after and using hooked you can animate it striking or just the position of the beginning and end. Thanks!

[@genesis2303]

Jacob's ladder, movie like this - they don't do anymore ;(

[@Wije]

🤘

[@melodyyy7954]

how do I make it disappear and appear again? I am very new to blender n I don't how how to animate it. Can someone help?

[@flapjacksauce8934]

hey I have a small issue was wondering if you could help. I cant seem to get my emissions to glow when rendering. it looks like white lines.

[@JoeyCarlino]

If you mean it doesn't look right while rendering then make sure the little camera button is on for the displacement modifiers. That is the "enable when rendered" button.

[@flapjacksauce8934]

@@JoeyCarlino yes I have them ticked on, just doesn't seem to "glow" so I had put a black pane in the background and turned on "bloom" for rendering to get the glow effect visible. Was curious if that's the way you did it in the end.

[@kirbydreamlanddeluxe9906]

Have you got a version of the lightning complete so everyone could download?

[@JoeyCarlino]

Not for free, but yeah, there's a file on Gumroad

[@vuukee8502]

my emission strength doesnt make it glow like yours does, any help?

[@JoeyCarlino]

If you're using Eevee, bloom has to be turned on. You won't get it glowing in cycles unless you add it with the compositor.

[@vuukee8502]

@@JoeyCarlino you're a legend, thanks!

[@BarneyWobba]

When I extrude it always goes on a different axis, not z.

[@Greenman4890]

Could you export this? Like say apply modifiers and export it into a game engine?