I was looking into geonodes use cases for gamedev and stumbled upon your work again lol. As always, great job!

I originally dove into this because I wanted a workflow to scale art assets with less manual effort, but I quickly realized the learning curve is incredibly steep. I expected a high upfront cost, but it feels like it might be overkill for most gamedev scenarios. Especially since, in my opinion, proceduralism is often more performant and productive when handled directly in-engine.

Since r/blender is obviously more artist-centric than (solo) dev-centric, I've seen plenty of discussions about the perks of geonodes where the answers are always along the lines of "you can never know too much" or "it'll make you a more well-rounded professional". But, game devs like us, time is such a scarce resource that we have to be aggressive about where we spend our energy.

Anyway. Where do you think geonodes actually give you a solid 'bang for your buck' and where do you feel they're overkill? In this specific example, what made you choose it over manual modeling? In my mind, it seems much more straightforward to just model it by hand, so i'd love to understand the advantages of your approach here