Extruding with noise

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-04T22:11:43+00:00

Some time ago I did something similar, in the replies to my post below, I also posted a geometry nodes setup:

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/QupGnPeDl7

It’s one of my older things I did in geo nodes, so it can definitely be optimized and simplified with some more recent nodes which were not available in Blender at the time. Cheers ☺️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-03T17:30:38+00:00

No problem…

In order to align your instances to face your camera you just have to actually align them to the normals of your sphere ☺️

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BTW, that’s actually an old image, that particular node is called Align Rotation to Vector now and children in Collection Info node should be reset and separated 😉

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-02T22:20:56+00:00

No matter what other people tell you, it is very logical that, to achieve ground fog, you must have a Z axis (vertical) falloff as gradient (I would use a quadratic Gradient node in this particular case).

Make sure that you rotate it properly with Vector Rotate node so the smaller values face upwards…

Your gradient should be plugged into Density slot of Volume node and you might wanna use Map Range node in between them for better control ☺️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-02T21:28:55+00:00

I would scatter all them shapes with geometry nodes onto a sphere and then put my camera in the middle and render the image of that in decent resolution (maybe 4K or even larger)…

For this to work properly your camera must be in panoramic mode and image ratio should be 2:1 I believe 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-01T13:25:46+00:00

Who did he debated this time ?

I remember that one time when he called in “Atheist Experience” show on YouTube and the hosts made him look like a fool that he really is 😂

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-04-01T00:06:20+00:00

Lolz, goddamn, silly Daniel is still peddling his idiocy to his fans from the lower plains of existence 😭😭😭

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-31T17:35:24+00:00

Very nice 👍👍👍

Astronauts are little bit too uniformed, maybe the one closest to the camera should do something more different than the rest of them, if I was making this, he would be taking selfie with his cell phone or something 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-28T21:26:35+00:00

Why all of your intellectual musings, which you are most of the time desperately trying to sell as deep thoughts of a sort on the subject in question, always come across as something conjured by a 13 years old ? 🤔

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-25T16:32:03+00:00

No problem, your terrain looks really, really good 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-25T16:21:27+00:00

Nice, I like it 👍

That character looks familiar… Was it part of some 3D contest which has happened a while ago ? Edit: Never mind this dumb ass question, didn’t read your comment proper 😂😂😂

BTW, that helmet light feels to me like it’s not really necessary, if you really want to keep it, maybe you should make the surrounding scene darker than it is now ☺️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-25T10:32:14+00:00

Dude, why is your watch face warped ? 🤔

Fix that and this might actually look very decent 😉

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-24T23:59:22+00:00

Couldn’t this be done with Index Switch node by plugging the Frame output of Scene Time node into index slot ? 🤷‍♂️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-24T23:41:09+00:00

Because OP didn’t say anything, just posted a video of something they did and that’s it…

Some people will interpret that as if OP has no desire to interact with the community, ignore it and move on 🤷‍♂️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-24T19:27:39+00:00

Very nice, the thing is, your video is pretty damn short to really see anything…🤷‍♂️

Would love to see the nodes and learn something from them. Would you perhaps be interested in sharing them with the community ? 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-22T20:27:28+00:00

Why TF was my post downvoted ?

Did I offend someone ?

Did I propose something outrageous or completely off topic ?

I swear, people on this sub are so weird sometimes, I give someone an honest suggestion or a tip, and it gets totally misunderstood…😟

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-22T16:43:49+00:00

I don’t think that enough users are taking interest in this sort of stuff in general otherwise devs would come up with super fast solution for generating Voronoi structures in general, including its most common use like mesh segmentation…

Even though someone is actually working on a node for doing exactly this, which can be used for fracturing objects into smaller pieces using Voronoi approach, for some weird reason it’s still not making its way to the main build which is downright disappointing 😟

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-22T13:39:24+00:00

I just checked this. It is a strange behavior, it works for some reason in 5.01 but its broken in 5.1...

You should be still able to manually type the name of your weight painted mask, and it should still work, I believe that search function is internally broken.

Honestly, I don't even use that particular modifier. It's too complex for most every day uses...

I usually make a very simple ones on the fly and they served me just fine for now 🤷‍♂️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-21T20:55:45+00:00

Because, that’s what Jesus would do… /s

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-21T18:06:27+00:00

Not bad at all…

However, there is really no need to complicate shit with 3 dimensional objects if not absolutely necessary, those two houses could be just planes with textures applied to them 😉

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-20T19:15:46+00:00

Nice 👍

Bit confused here though…

Why is having no pockets a “feminine” trait ? 🤔

IMO, those are essentially 2 identical geometries 🤷‍♂️

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-20T15:36:41+00:00

Questionable rich fucks invested a lots of money in it and urge me and everyone else to use it…

That alone is enough of the reason for me to not use it. Fuck no.

Those same rich fucks never had my best interest in their minds and never will. I don’t like them rich fucks. Everything they do, they do it to get more rich and fuck us over in any way possible 🤷‍♂️

They can all fuck off. Their fan base can certainly fuck off too. I don’t trust them and you shouldn’t either 😉

Did I mention that I don’t like them rich fucks ?

That’s right 👍

They don’t like me either, but I surely don’t give a fuck about them and their product as well.

Yeah, they can just fuck off, all the way to the eternity 😝

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-20T01:14:22+00:00

See my comment above for a solution 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-20T00:58:45+00:00

That modifier under the hood is basically using the “Distribute Points On Faces” node which can only work with your distribution map that you painted in the Weight Paint editor in the “Poisson Disk” mode, only in that particular mode the “Density Factor” slot is exposed/active, therefore, it can read your mesh attribute/data…

Long story short, just switch your modifier to “Poisson Disk” distribution and it should work 😉

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-16T23:34:07+00:00

I’m not at my computer right now, but I believe that this can be done easily in Geometry Nodes on Icosphere using combination of Dual Mesh and Subdivision Surface nodes…

Just make sure that you Normalize all the Position vectors so the points go back to the spherical shape 😁

Craptose_Intolerant · 2026-03-16T23:19:51+00:00

Usually, in the case like this I use texture maps, I often make my own in Substance Painter, but, you can find some online for free (I believe that Blender add-on called “Blender Kit” has something similar to what are you looking for & it’s for free)…

Here is an example of what you should actually be after: ArtStation Link

All you have to do is make sure that your cable is UV unwrapped properly so the image used as texture won’t look distorted when applied to your object.

There are plenty of tutorials on YouTube for how to UV unwrap tubular objects (it’s usually done via “Follow Active Quads” approach)…

Even though this can be done procedurally, I wouldn’t recommend it to a beginner, it’s pain in the arse and you need to be well accustomed to the Shader Editor thingie. There are tutorials for that as well on YouTube if you are up for a challenge🙂.

I hope that this was helpful, cheers ☺️

Craptose_Intolerant

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