EASY GRASS in Blender with Geometry Nodes!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below! :)

[@DesignsbyDonBrown]

How would I do it with collections? I am doing a Christmas tree and I have the lights working fine but I want to add several ornaments I have made.

[@Gcreatesthings]

are attribute randomize nodes in blender 3.1? if not how could I get the same effect?

[@KelvinGuevara3D]

@@Gcreatesthings Did you find the solution? I am in the same situation

[@archcast5550]

Got tired of Hair settings! finally an awesome tutorial about grass !

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@alexandrearaujo4256]

greetings from Brazil, nice video. it gave me a great explanation about geo nodes. thanks a lot.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Glad it helped!

[@cgcores525]

You're my go-to channel for tutorials! Keep them coming!

[@mercurysmith563]

I like what you've done here, and it has taken the texture to the highest level, and I get that you are teaching all the nodes for the greatest level of detail but, I'm creating a lawn for an archvis project and always keep at the front the level of planning the render time I add by any actions. As you aren't really close enough to individual grass blades and they are not the focus, would it save much processing time by dropping the displacement and Normal nodes from the tree? Afterall, when you stand back and look at a yard, you don't really need to see the veins in a grass blade raised up. The color, roughness, and alpha seem enough to gain a realistic yard.

[@boski224]

I spent an hour to discover that we need to type lowercases in 'Attribute field' :) Anyways. Thank you so so so much for sharing your tricks. It helps me a lot in my woodworking craft.

[@TheCGEssentials]

UGH - I'm really hoping they add a drop down with the different kinds of attributes that we can just click on. It feels very "hacked together" the way that it is and it's easy to mess up little things like this

[@cyber5873]

This is cool. The origin point thing had me stumped for awhile but you answered that question in the comments. Fixed that. My grass blades then were upside down - that took me awhile to realize my selection in UV Ed was inverted. Fixed that. Im not fond of the CTRL J instead I make them a collection and then I can use all of that collection or just part of it which seems more logical to me. I hope these oddities and variations help someone.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Yep - totally valid solution. Thanks!

[@kulewa1]

Whoa, really good tutorial, I will be using the techniques for sure.

[@dynamic5109]

I miss your emphasised “WHHHAATSUP guys” 😂

[@TheCGEssentials]

Testing some new intro stuff :)

[@afrosymphony8207]

me too!! lool

[@arqitype]

Helpful as always 🙏🏼

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@thomandy]

Will it render faster with nodes compared to using a particle system? Curious what's the main benefits using nodes instead?! :)

[@flyingjudgement]

With nodes you can skip half the video and generate endless type of instantly modifyable grass. Than you can specify how you like to spawn them with lots of complexity, no performance benefits I think.

[@andreamacor4135]

You very good teacher!

[@wandamelamare1935]

Love your videos, keep up the good work. If possible, please do a tutorial on realistic architecture exterior rendering on blender. 🙏🏻

[@pastaeatinrasta1]

hey! this is amazing, is there anyway to cut a path out at all? that would be amazing!

[@richedge8667]

Great tutorial, thanks. Not that it would be noticeable unless the camera was up very close but, do they avoid overlapping?

[@TheCGEssentials]

At the moment no - I've heard there might be a node for this, but I don't know what it is

[@JedHurricane]

It's already in the point distribute node, click on random, and you'll see a new option called poisson disk, that allows you to adjust the minimum distance, so the objects don't overlap

[@jeffg4686]

Thanks for share. Regarding the density attribute of point distribute node, do you happen to know if this is for tying to weight paint masks? docs say "The name of the attribute to use for influencing the point density", but didn't know what types of attributes are allowed here. Seems like the doc is a little generic to leaving it open to several things rather than just WP, but I would imagine WP mask could be used here.

[@abo_al_nour6063]

thanks alot

[@UnchartedWorlds]

I'm watching you at 240p on my phone 😂 KZbin new update preffers to switch to low resolution all the time, so annoying 😂

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - saving that bandwidth one phone at a time :p

[@adrianscarlett]

I hate how everything tries to optimise for mobile data, I have an unlimited data plan and enough bandwidth for 4k streaming, but constantly have to reset the resolution of video streams. Please just let me have one place to select my data usage preferences!

[@adrianscarlett]

I just got the app update, it now allows me to disable auto resolution, giving me the option to force select a specific one. I wonder if this will stick permanently?

[@UnchartedWorlds]

@@adrianscarlett where can I find this setting? I need this 😁

[@UnchartedWorlds]

@@adrianscarlett found it, put it on higher quality, it now streams in 480p 😂 they really fucked it up, I now constantly have to adjust videos 😁

[@Gekitsuu]

When I select the "Opacity" image and go to Settings -> Options, I don't see a "Blend Mode" in version 2.93.5. Has it been moved?

[@Gekitsuu]

I found it, looks like it only appears under Material -> Settings in the properties panel for me

[@metalgeartac8186]

My grass seems to be going through the mesh of my plane. I've used a cloud texture with a displace modifier to get a better random ground layout. Im not sure if that's the reason?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Is the origin of the grass you're using at the bottom of the grass object? It should be placing your grass based on the origin location

[@metalgeartac8186]

@@TheCGEssentials I placed origin center to object. Ill give it a shot when I have the time and reply back if it works. Thank you

[@metalgeartac8186]

Yes! That was it. Thanks man 😊

[@abv250]

@4:18, select the UV map - then what keystroke enables the square cursor (to shape the blade of grass?) - Nothing happens on mine (Blender 3.1) . The UV map is in grey shades , although on the plane in the shader editor, the green grass displays as green.

[@_suryo_]

i can't find some nodes on blender 3.4.1. I think they're named differently, but when I try to use the nodes with similar name like "instance on points" my grass are all floating. The node Attribute Randomizer is also nowhere to be found

[@LeneChibi]

same problem here :( Did you find a solution yet?

[@jamesgreen2495]

I am trying to create a grass lawn next to a path in botaniq but the grass goes over the path in parts. Do you know how to create a clean grass edge?

[@FANTASYLORDCOX]

Is there a node to stop the grass intersecting each other?

[@JedHurricane]

That feature is in the same point distribute node, click on random, and you'll see another option called poisson disk, you can adjust the minimum distance so that the objects don't intersect each other.

[@Kalm15]

Is this heavier on computer resources than using a hair particle system with an instanced object? I generally can’t orbit around my model with a really dense particle system (500k+) in use if it’s visible in the viewport.

[@TheCGEssentials]

I think so currently

[@geetkrishna7673]

Hi, positioning of the grass is happening way for the plane. please help me.

[@angeloarenas6525]

Can you add wind with forces like turbulence, using geometry nodes?

[@BrentynMacMillan]

I also would like to know how to do this

[@Gamezoneadi]

how do i export this as fbx along with the grass?

[@TheLonelyCabbage]

Would this be less GPU intensive than using particles?

[@Brodovitch8]

yes

[@milansvancara]

What is the first thing we wanna do?:P

[@mr.banana8701]

How to extract a single object while there are many objects in the scene?

[@ahmednaseb7513]

I waited tell the end of video to see what are you going to do with that dog😂😅

[@sadicus]

10.02 how to change the falloff radius?

[@Digit0wL]

Hi ! cc0 textures doesnt work anymore

[@silverclik]

I didn't find the blend mode for some reason

[@Neil_Hyde]

I had to switch from Cycles to Eevee to see the blend mode

[@oddkward1410]

@@Neil_Hyde TY

[@afrosymphony8207]

i'm sorry but geometrry nodes for scattering things seems like hype train to me, particle system is way much easier to use than this, i dont know why everyone seems to be going crazy over geometry nodes

[@nurb2kea]

Vid quality isn't nice. Try HandBrake app to render your vid's smaller with a setting of at least 18. Less quality loss and less file size .... When watching you vid, nodes are barely visible to read, specially when you zoom.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Looks fine to me at 1080p. I can't record it higher - my monitors are max 1080p

[@tpe54]

I have instances "to" or "on" points in my menu 1/21/22. Found some answers and could continue on this more recent instance site kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZXKgH9ppt6DpMk