The Easiest Way to Create Braids in Blender (Free Curve to Braid Generator)

[@NinoDefoq]

Hope this helps! Let me know what you used this for and feel free to tag me in any render results through one of my socials😇

[@vstreet7583]

Just brilliant! Another great tutorial and Geo Node product. Just learning how to sculpt so this will be very useful. THANK YOU! Dg

[@NinoDefoq]

Thank you so much! Glad it helps 😇

[@DesignsbyDonBrown]

Even after changing the option so it shows the UV map. none of the colors change. Any ideas?

[@averyc7492]

Really struggling trying to figure out how to rig this. Do you have any videos on that?

[@FloridiaPietro]

The realistic braid doesn't show up in render view (both eevee and Cycles) how to fix? The anime style works just fine

[@elijahgreenwood702]

Convert it into a "Curves"! Something with Blender probably updated, a curve object itself is just points, not faces, so it can't have a material. Converting it into a Curves solves it

[@bobcatdreams]

question.... is there a way to change the little threads at the end? I know there there for the realistic but when its in anime mode I kinda wana make it just taper out with out the big bulbs at the end so much. is there a way to do that?

[@Romeo615Videos]

vid is cool but how to do cornrows with this pre set?

[@NinoDefoq]

Check out my channel. I have a full video on how to make cornrows.

[@Romeo615Videos]

@@NinoDefoq I saw it but it has no info on how to use it with the particle system and the new update wont import into ue5 as groom without particle system hair

[@darwingcaballero6603]

Thanks Nino, is possible make for haird card with this form. You are doing an amazing work

[@R24_alt]

Is it possible to make the starting point size (radius) be changeable?

[@brulportnicolas1838]

Tremendous work... Merci Nino

[@xmkmx1]

Thanks a lot for your Geonode setup! It works great, however the optimized version does not render when rendering in cycles in Blender 4.0. The unoptimized version seems to render fine however.. I tried realizing the strands as instances but that also does not seem to work. Any pointers?

[@elijahgreenwood702]

Convert it into a "Curves"! Something with Blender probably updated, a curve object itself is just points, not faces, so it can't have a material. Converting it into a Curves solves it

[@kritzstudio]

First of all, thank you very much for this incredible generator! We wanted to ask you a question, if you have an animated character who walks, is there any setting so that the braid advances with the character? Since the anchor point of the node geometry advances, but not the rest, so it's as if it were stretched like rapunzel hahaha, thank you very much

[@NinoDefoq]

I'd recommend rigging it in that case. Attaching the points to a rig and link it to a cloth sim perhaps so it follows some fun physics?

[@ThisIsLacus]

I really appreciate this! Im trying to make this really long braid in form of a star on the floor surrounding my model, what Im finding hard to manage is the root of the braid it doesn't look very uniform like the rest of the braid, I wonder if there's a fix for that? also every-time I extrude the braid to follow the star path the braids become thicker, I wish I could just have a continuous length through out.

[@NinoDefoq]

Hiya! Well, those things are all being set in the geometry node setup. The thickness of the braid depends on the length of the curve. You can set your own length, but that'd be a bit of work to figure out if you're not familiar with geometry nodes yourself. Have a look in the geometry node setup and check what controls the "thickness" of the strands. It should be named Thickness in the 3 hair strand groups. Try disconnecting the "spline parameter" nodes, but make sure only to do it for the thickness values. That may also make the start of the braid more uniform.

[@ThisIsLacus]

@@NinoDefoq thank you!!

[@MegaDinamita1]

a question, how to save the geometry nodes to use them in other projects?

[@NinoDefoq]

You can mark your geometry nodes as an asset and use the asset library to drag them into your other files. The other way is to simply append the geometry node setup.

[@wd3987]

So ive been crying over my keyboard for nothing. There was a generator this entire ti.e!

[@agyab3d]

cool... can get my hands on in the future 👍

[@NinoDefoq]

Thanks, enjoy!

[@akoako6554]

Ty Nino great Job

[@NinoDefoq]

@@akoako6554 Appreciate it!

[@AhmedTarek-ob3tj]

how can i animate it though?

[@NinoDefoq]

Link your curve points to an armature and animate the armature :)

[@Steveteeps]

Love this tool and its helping me a ton right now! Seriously love your tutorials on the new hair stuff. I had a couple small questions as I have been using it last few days. 1. When I switch to the realistic hair mode even with low amounts it completely tanks my performance in the viewport even with a 4090 and insane PC specs... not sure what is the bottleneck for that? The other hair systems are very fast for me other wise so not sure if its just the complexity of the nodes? 2. Is there a way to convert these nodes back to a particle system to export as grooms? Whenever I try the curves -> convert to particle system process it doesnt seem to do anything and I cannot apply the nodes once they are set. Not sure if I am missing something though! Still new to geo nodes.

[@NinoDefoq]

Hi Steve! Thanks for the love and the comments! 1. You had me struggling for a bit to try and make this setup more "PC Friendly", but I'm happy to say it worked! I'm going to make a short updated video on it and update the .Blend file on Gumroad so you can use this new one that works WAYYY better in terms of performance. 2. With the new setup I'm about to share you'll be working with empty hair curves instead of actual curves. This means that you'll work with actual hair grooming. In that mode, you'll also be able to convert it from a empty hair to a particle system with ease. Stay tuned! Thanks for the comments :)

[@Steveteeps]

@@NinoDefoq you are a legend! Seriously cant wait to check out the update! So glad to find your channel.

[@777leif]

Thanks so much. You just saved me A LOT of time. My GPU is struggling a bit though ;-). I wanted to check out the GEO nods and oof...what a beautiful mess.

[@NinoDefoq]

😂 I'm sorry about that

[@NinoDefoq]

I'm about to release an update that will be WAYYY better for you GPU :)

[@777leif]

@@NinoDefoq awesome. I'll use it 100%. I've got project coming up and I need 3 braids in the same scene. I was going to have to farm out the render.

[@NinoDefoq]

@@777leif Awesome mate! Happy it helps 😇

[@funcraft4270]

Wow 😶😶

[@BossMail-q2s]

I love the idea, but when you start a tutorial with everything already setup, to the point that all you have to do is draw a line with a pencil and your braids appear... Id say its not user/beginner friendly. I guess you made this video to show off what can be done, not HOW. The whole thing is already setup I start off way different

[@bosslivin.0]

I feel the same way and he does this with a few of his tutorials. Its EXTREMELEy frustrating to say the least. If you follow his tutorials step by step, your guranteed to be lost, confused and frustrated.... And thats a fact

[@roccobruno2241]

thx!!! ^^