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It is on Blender Market, I just to forgot to publish this version of the file, but you can now find it on the products page. I removed the culling for this version because I managed to improve the performance on Blender 4.2, so if that is the problem, you can keep with the latest version, or If you just want to remove the points from the back faces, I can add this again to you.

@@phcgm thank you very much! I think culling is just a cool feature not only for the performance, but also to break down the uniformness of the model. Thanks again, i will use the previous version that you published. Keep up the great work!

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Volumetric texturing in Blender it's very limited at this time and if you try to move the foam, you cannot keep the texture at the correct place or if you try to do that, the texture will just stop working. Maybe in future updates of the software thay could fix this.

@@phcgm Ah, thanks for the explanation.

This tool can be used to project a mesh into another, with different topology. For example, if you have a mesh with bad topology and UVs and you want to transfer that 3D information to another one with better, this tool will help you a lot. People who jse that usually are the ones who does sculpture and photogrammetry.

This tool must to be used as a modifier with a mesh. Sorry about the issue! Can you use the latest version of Blender? Where did you bought it so i can upload a oldier version of it? I recently updafed all of my produc5s in order to make it work on Blender 4.1.

or u have to add it in yourself

You can use a texture from the base mesh to change the of color the scales

But how do I add multiple colors with transitioning gradients

@@itsjtg6455 Sorry, didn't understood what do you are asking for, can you give me an example? I can let you use vertex color from the base mesh to color it if you want.

@@phcgmi want the scales color to look identical to a snake and also the geometry nodes arent showing on object cetrun objects

Probably not. I think with the new raytracing engine this shader is no longer needed.

Thanks for the feedback, I will take a look on that and fix this issue as fast as possible!

Hi, thanks for the feedback. In the latest version you can actually use a Size Map with it and control the XYZ scale using Vertex weight values.

@@phcgm Sure but then the density around the smaller ones need to increase doesnt it? or it'll expose the mesh under?

O@@Zev_Reef You are right! For now, there is no Blender node that allows you to control density based on the radius of the instances, but that is somenthing I have been trying for a while. One thing you can do is to create masks for each scale size and them use this node multiple times in the same mesh, until you get a nice size variation. That is something that I always wanted to add to this tool and if I find a solution, it will gona be added to the node. Thanks for the feedback.

@@phcgm Ah I see, well goodluck with that hah

@@Zev_Reef I updated the project. Now you can optmize the distance between the scales based on it's size.

Hi, sorry about the issue. If you bought this on the Blender Market you can message me there so I can give you a better support or you can send a email to phenriq@protonmail.com. Whats is the problem? Common issues are, it doesn't work on flat planes; you should add a little bit of displacement on it. The scattered meshes floats on the surface; You should move the instantiated meshes closer to 0,0,0 and aplly all of the transforms. This is a geometry nodes modifier, so remember to load it there. I hope it helped.

There is an material applied to the object called "Pixel Material". Open it on the Shader Editor, look at the graph and you will se a Attribute Node, you must use this node to map of your textures applied to the pixelated mesh. You also need to type the UV name on the "UV Name" input on the Pixelator modifier. I hope it helped.

Thanks!

Check out the Documentation on the Blender Market to see how to use that. This video is also a good reference. To use that in your scene, you need to Append the .blend file that you download to the project that you are working, selecting the "EASY HAIR" inside the "NodeTree" folder. After that the new Geometry Nodes modifier will gonna be added to the Modifiers tab list.

@@phcgm There doesn't appear to be any documentation at all. Video would be a lot more useful if you explained the process.

Just add a curve object to your scene, enten in edit mode. This tool can be found on the left tool bar, I selected that at 0:09.

This tool only process 1 tile of an object, no matter if that is tiled by 100x, 10000x, 10000x. That makes it far more efficient in memory usage and in performance than any other subdivision method for this kind of situtation. My "Adaptive Terrain" tool also allows you do do this when you tile the terrain, but this one was designed for large scale planes.

@@phcgm interesting. If it really works I think you have a real buzz here. The inbuilt method doesnt really work at all, it just kills all memory instead of saving.

The adaptive subdivision that you mentioned isn't very efficient because first it needs to subdivide the mesh to the highest subdivision, it only optimizes the topology after that. So, you still needs a lot of memory to handle that peak of memory, that's probably the reason why it is still an experimental feature.

To use that you just need to Append the "chain.blend" to your scenel, selecting the "CHAINGEN" inside the "NodeTree" folder Create a curve to add a Geometry Nodes modifier, and select the "CHAINGEN" You can watch the video bellow to see how to use it.

That one took days to be done.

@@phcgm are you planning to release this or can i get the download file please

You no longer need them in Blender 3.6, I added a check box to the geometry nodes that turn the instances to mesh. Just the new version for Blender 3.6 that I uploaded, if you haven't done already. Enable it and apply the geometry node modifier. This is solution is a lot faster too!

Ohh nice nice! thanks! @@phcgm

Hi, thank you very much for buying it! I'm adding a new version on Gumroad that take advantage of Blender 3.6. With this file you will gonna be able to convert the instances to a mesh that you can export a lot easier, just check "Bake Instances" before applying the modifier on Blender 3.6. About your issue; Blender isn't very good rendering transparency, so the more cards you scatter the slower it gets. Those tiny cards are meant to cover the areas with micro fur and they are really bad to render as you need a lot of them to cover an area. But there are a setting to control the density specifically for this cards but you can also use the "Remove Fur" slider to get rid of the smaller ones. But what you really should do is create a Vertex Group, load it on the "Fur map" input, use Weight Paint to control the area of the fur and the lenght of it with values higher than 0.150.

Thanks!