Rolling Cubes & Hexagons, Blender Tutorial

A Blender tutorial demonstrating how to roll objects like cubes, hexagons and pentagons in Blender using Geometry Nodes. It's easier than you think and much quicker than manually rotating around several empties. Follow this step-by-step guide to rotate regular polygons, objects with sides of equal lengths, in Blender. This is done in Blender 4 but will work for earlier versions as well.
0:00 End goal: Rolling a cube, hexagon, or pentagon.
0:20 Setting up the rotation for the rolling cube.
3:00 Setting up the forward motion of the cube.
4:45 Combining cube rotation and forward motion to complete the roll.
5:37 How to determine the size of an object in Blender.
7:56 Setting up how to determine the size of different types of polygons for the roll.
12:39 Controlling the speed of the rolling cube or object.
13:15 Adding some flare and style to the walk or roll cycle with RGB Curves.

[@NEILSTER666]

Nice tutorial :) I may of plugged something in wrong somewhere but if I roll a Rubik's cube it doesn't do a true 360 rotation. I.E it rolls 90, then resets the rotation and then rolls 90 again/.Is there a way to fix this?

[@3dplockis]

So it´s acting like it does here? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaKun3d7ncigrJYsi=SbN57bEDHVRWOz8i&t=161 Just take it from there and make sure the Cubes origin point is in the center of mass (volume)

[@NEILSTER666]

@@3dplockis Here is an example. I.e it rotates 90 then resets the colors on the next rotation kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJOnmnmLdq6an5o

[@NEILSTER666]

@@3dplockis I have hacked my way around this. The problem is that if you roll an object (such as a rubiks cube) the colors do not rotate the full 360,, I.E green will be on top, then it rolls 90 and then green jumps to the top again for the next 90 rotation. I have hacked it by keyframing rotating the geometry 90 after the set position node.

[@3dplockis]

Never realized this problem, but nice that you solved it!