Procedural Desert Landscape - Blender Geometry Nodes Tutorial

[@cameraware9299]

Loved the video. However, for newcomers to blender, the texture sand color part specifically 14:48 was a huge gap of an unexplained procedure. I too, wish it was a step-by-step guide rather than explaining what's already been made. Material Plane size? How do you create it? Do you attach it to the main desert and how? etc. Love the content though

[@SviatoslavPetrov]

One of the best tutor about generating desert. Thaks a lot! Shader can be a litle improve: add darker areas based on hight of sand vawes (Geometry_Info_[Position] + Separate_XYZ_[Z] + Maht_[Multiply] + ColorRamp)

[@thomas7726]

Make sense. Thank u!

[@amrtahtawi]

Just wow, didn’t even know that quality of desert can be achieved with geonodes currently! Thank you for being innovative 🙏

[@hemant5718]

You'd always want grains in this render.

[@WalidDingsdale]

amazing walkthrough enable me to finally better understand node working mechanism, thanks for sharing your talented insight

[@patrickpax3D]

I'm a Cinema 4D user and happened to stumble across your video. I've just released a desert generator for Cinema 4D myself, albeit a bit more extensive, so I found it very interesting how it works in Blender. Very cool tool of yours!

[@blenderdude5050]

thank you, I came from C4D to Blender 6 years ago! curious about your solution!

[@mikiad.3d-visualsanimation100]

Vielen Dank für das tolle Tutorial, genau danach habe ich schon ewig gesucht!

[@sonococoliche0810]

You are extremely talented. Please, do not stop making videos!

[@JimDHart]

Very good tutorial. I especially appreciate the detail put into the scene. Thank you!

[@blenderdude5050]

thank you!

[@kentsarikaya9475]

I am really enjoying your videos. Your mastery is very inspriring, thank you!

[@np5855]

nice tutorial, my only recommendation would be to go through the notes to explain what their influence on each other is and why it ends up looking like a desert along the way. Now it's just a follow along with almost no knowledgable substance. Great video anyway and thanks for the dunes! :D

[@notcore1783]

This is the best Sand Dunes I've seen so far, I want to export it to the Unity Engine. Could someone posssibly know how to do that?

[@MeshMayhem82]

I appreciate the tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

[@ltsoup2778]

I've been looking for a tutorial about this fo so long! thank you :)

[@bloodywanker231]

Excellent stuff! Very nice tutorial with great results.

[@blenderdude5050]

thank you!

[@rndm2000]

Super Video, danke:)

[@samidzn]

Great tutorial man! followed the whole thing but i don't have the settings like u do in 0:12 how do i get those settings to change stuff? mine says no group output attributed connected

[@vizdotlife]

Fantastic tutorial, thank you! There was one thing I couldn't get to work in Cycles which was the wavy sand lines from the wind. Do you by chance know what I might have missed in the tutorial? I created everything, including the sand procedure texture in the second half of the tutorial.

[@charlesh4333]

This can also turn into waves pretty quickly just by changing the colors and smoothing out the pattern

[@cinebite2074]

Wonderfull lession thank you

[@ciarawaggoner3748]

When I input the model, none of the nodes effect the terrain. I don’t use nodes much so I could be doing it wrong. But none of it changes the model. Height, seed, etc.

[@henryeden3182]

I worked with the tutorial and got to 20.27. I also did the grass tutorial, but when i join the geometry notes and connect them to output blender crashes every time. what can i do?

[@EXPstreams]

amazing tut, thank you for taking the time to make this (love your accent :) I was hoping you could give me a hand with tiling the 200m surface without using an array modifier and breaking the edges?

[@MattScottVisuals]

amazing! thank you :)

[@kuromaru9661]

Quick question: I just bought the project file, how can I export the texture so I can use it in unity? When I export as fbx normally, the textures aren't there. *I'm a beginner, hope you see this

[@EuroCp]

The power of blender is both: Inspiration and intimidation. To some people it's the beauty of mathmatics, some say it's a horror. The question for me is: where is the demand for these creative pictures and animations ? I would love to do custom production ...

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, I don't think I quite understand your comment. Is it a question, or a statement...?

[@Steve_creates_Visions]

@@blenderdude5050 Explanation: I love to create such worlds/pictures, but the big question is, who wants it, who needs it, who admires it, and so on. It's similar to the question of the meaning of life ... I'm afraid nobody can help me there. Or can you ?

[@blenderdude5050]

@@Steve_creates_Visions Ah, I see. Then you have the same problem I have with very many Geometry Nodes tutorials. With very many tutorils, especially the abstract ones, I also don't see any application except the beauty of the graphic itself.... I try to give with my tutorials every time at least as prasktische application examples as possible.

[@useruser-le2du]

Amazing

[@FunTV-pl6bq]

Hi, could you tell me why the node height Settings have not changed? Thanks for the tutorial!

[@mmo4754]

I don't understand how to get the texture on there. I downloaded a sand texture and added it to another object, and from there I added it to the geometry node, and the color of the object changes, but I don't get any of the sand details. and I can't adjust the scale.

[@EmaSans-tu5eg]

How do you got collection grass? 19:40

[@mr_arc_mrc]

Awesome 👌🔥

[@blenderdude5050]

thanks!

[@WookieMama]

This was great. I very much so enjoyed following this tutorial. The only thing I wish is that my sand waves looked like yours. I follow every step to a T but still am not getting the same results. Can you help!?

[@blenderdude5050]

hard to tell from distance - but I recommend you the free (or paid) version of blenderkit.com - it's an addon with thousands of free materials, including the sand shader

[@biaobiaozhang3956]

Great video and I learn a lot! But i have a question, how to make the grass from green into brown?

[@tuber420]

I can't find the Set Position node in my Geometry Node editor

[@shmoukh2797]

how did you add a texture color , i wish you explained this point in the video ☹

[@fexgy5595]

for me dosent appear texture coordinate or mapping on geomtry node idk where are they???

[@ameenzemzem4019]

How to manipulate values just like u did at the beginng ?

[@user-ty2fd5nu6u]

Thx man

[@Mynkkk1717]

Where can i get the procedural sand material?

[@marcellpetrik7006]

hello, thanks for this tutorial, it was very helpful. However, I have a question, how did you do it in the intro, how did you adjust the parameters, what were written separately? Thanks for the reply! Have a nice and creative day! :)

[@cliffy987]

THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[@Jason.ok23]

i’m not getting some of the nodes for the sand material

[@polynormal4038]

Very nice tutorial, couldn't you use the offset input from set position instead of setting up your own offset with position>vector math?

[@isabelsaij9183]

How did you make the "material plane" ? Und danke wirklich für deine Tutos !

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, danke! my material plane is just a normal plane, created outside of geometry nodes. did you mean that...?

[@isabelsaij9183]

@@blenderdude5050 That's what I've done after a while. But I forgot to link the material in "set material" (geonodes again). It works now perfectly. Thank you for your answer.

[@lmydawson5885]

Can i get the procedural sand material.

[@halafradrimx]

Cool! Can we use this to a spherical object, though?

[@aimenzaied]

is there a way to like make some places flat and others with dunes ? in real life desert there are flat areas and dune areas

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, yes, that should be possible. You could do it with a mix of two textures and connect them with a "mix" node. This should happen at the very beginning at 4:20, when creating the first Voronoi texture.

[@aimenzaied]

@@blenderdude5050 yea, thats what i thought of doin, thanks for the reply and the great work !

[@renka1862]

did you found a solution for this? because i mixed the voronoi textures but i dont get the results i want

[@aimenzaied]

not really, the best idea i got is making two planes with two deferent heights @@renka1862

[@motionrunblender]

why is my texture not working pls help

[@CatSushi1337]

Really nice tutorial even though the sand texture just won’t work for me for some reason it always comes out as a dark brown plane without any texture although only when I look at it in the render preview when I look at it from the Material preview everything looks totally fine has anyone a clue what I am doing wrong ?

[@blenderdude5050]

did you check the "texture coordinate" node? should be connected with object or generated, not UV

[@CatSushi1337]

@@blenderdude5050 Haha es lag halt wirklich daran, vielen vielen Dank du bist eine lebende Legende :D

[@blenderdude5050]

@@CatSushi1337 Ungefähr jede zweite Anfrage endet mit dieser Lösung :-D

[@pro.gamer_ff]

🙏🙏❤❤😊

[@romeocodm]

Hey how did you make the procedural sand texture?

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, at the end I explain the sand material

[@romeocodm]

@@blenderdude5050 Hi, thanks i found it, ive nearly finished this tutorial and its turning out great. Making the grass texture now. May i ask how you got the blue gradient background in the viewport render?

[@romeocodm]

I was able to do it with an sky texture in world settings.

[@blenderdude5050]

@@romeocodmHi, the blue background is a sky texture node

[@aduduww1830]

@@romeocodm hei, can i asking you? i can't find texture coordinate when i start making procedural sand section. may i know how to find it? i just aware that he 's not making procedural section in geometry node. where is it made? i'm so sorry if my english so bad.

[@aduduww1830]

please, help me. I cant find texture coordinate, where i can find it?

[@blenderdude5050]

hmm - just type in "coordinate" in the node search. should appear then

[@fexgy5595]

@@blenderdude5050 dosent appear

[@leonard-teo]

@@blenderdude5050 It doesn't appear for me too.

[@ivangelium6348]

Блин, она не скейлится, если сделать пустыню больше, уровень деталей падает. Но в остальном почти идеально, спасибо.

[@possesdsnailsnailacademy9566]

I couldnt find a sand material as good as yours?

[@blenderdude5050]

@@possesdsnailsnailacademy9566 try the blenderkit addon! it's free and you can use thousands of materials

[@possesdsnailsnailacademy9566]

alright, thanks!

[@martudamelia]

I'm not happy that you don´t explain in detal how to make the sand texture, I'm a beginner and I can´t finish the tutorial hahaha

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, sorry - just install the blenderkit addon on blenderkit.com. it's free. there are thounsands of free textures, including sand. hope that helps!

[@TunderTunder.]

Can I turn the desert into a mesh at the end?

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, you can add a "realize mesh" node right before the "group output" or you can just apply the geometry nodes modifier like any other modifier. should work...

[@TunderTunder.]

@@blenderdude5050 Thank you very much. By the way. An idea for a video. Procedural Volcano with geometry nodes

[@johnmc181280]

@@TunderTunder. Oh, yes, sounds interessting, I will add the GN Volcano to my list!

[@Br6a3]

please update the file its broken

[@felixlange2176]

Hey at first, amazing tutorial, the end result looks gorgeous but for some reasons my dunes don't cast any shadows im kinda new to Blender so its probably something realy dumb :D (for Ligthing im Using the Dynamic sky add-on which is already part of Blender )

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, thank you - did you check your material? the "texture coordinate" node should be connected with "object". sounds like that...

[@santhoshkumar-wy9cu]

bro make ocean

[@willwood3874]

:)

[@blockschmidt]

chefe

[@natanaelsuhardi9660]

can you be my teacher sir ? I really need it , Im will pay you

[@blenderdude5050]

Hi, thanks for the request :-D but I don't think my knowledge is enough to be a Blender teacher! Are you a complete beginner?

[@natanaelsuhardi9660]

@@blenderdude50502 years in 3D but my math so weak thats why Im trying so hard to understand this geometry nodes logic

[@emile7895]

multiply node doensn't exist

[@MARKF0RME_]

maybe use math node? there are other options like multiply divide addition etc in that node

[@emile7895]

@@MARKF0RME_ awesome thanks