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Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback. Well, there are few ways to animate these. 1. From the geometry nodes - by displacing the points of curves with set position and noise texture. 2. Convert to mesh, apply modifiers and add armature to animate

Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback! The music on the background is my own) something I’ve created for tutorials)

​@@retroshaperThe music is very beautiful. The tentacles turned out great too, thanks for the tutorial!

It’s the re-routing feature. You need to enable node wrangler addon to have this.

@@retroshaperI have installed node wrangler, then how do I join the 2 green lines like in the video?

@@sulthonbaiquni7256 Didn’t work for me from the start also. 1. You need to make sure that node editor is set to tweak mode. There’s an option for that in the upper left corner of the node editor 2. Use shift with right mouse button while sweeping across the link

@@retroshaper OK, it worked, thanks for helping

Hey! Thanks for the comment! Just one of the options) Flipping the color ramp is probably event better! 🙂

Hey @MaDmonkey3311 ! Thanks for the feedback! One of the solutions that I've came up with is to displace the curve points on z based on the factor (spline parameter). Add set position node after resampling the curve. It should look something like this - snipboard.io/kNSaYj.jpg

@@retroshaper Thank you very much for solution, but I still dont know what iam supposed to do from the screenshot. I dont use geometry nodes at all, they are my nightmare :D

@@MaDmonkey3311 the screenshot illustrates an example of points displacement on z axis based on the points position - I.e. the higher the point, the closer it is to previous point. This way, face of the segment of tentacle is going to be square, which will result in not squished ends of tentacles and suckers ))

@@retroshaper Also is there a way how to rotate tentacles as you need? Iam struggling with it a bit. In order to rotate it i have to move the handle points over some limit in order to rotate it but thats not what i need. I just need to let it be in specific curve position and then just press R and rotate it to desired position but thats not how it works.

@@MaDmonkey3311 Hey! Sorry for late response. Unfortunately this is not how curves work. You need to use the handles of each point of the curve to rotate to your need.

Hey! Thanks for the comment. Yes, that is possible, with a few adjustments. Instead of using the grid in the geometry nodes, you may use the plane with a needed number of quads.

@@retroshaper awesome! Thank you!

Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm happy to hear you've liked the format! ☺

Thanks for the feedback! 😊

Hey! Thanks for the comment! Not sure about exact tutorial, but you can look into Geometry proximity node and how to use it. In addition, you can also check Demo file on Blender website (www.blender.org/download/demo-files/). Th Halloween Spider project in particular. I think this is something you're looking for.

Hey! Thank you so much for watching, commenting, and getting the project file! Hope you've figured out the workflow! ☺

Hey! You may consider Altermesh to bring it into the UE

Hey! Thanks for the comment and for following the tutorial. So, there are 2 ways of creating those dungeons in the project, random or manual. The random one is when you add geometry nodes modifier to any mesh and it will create grid which transforms into dungeons with settings. The manual ways, when you add planes which are the base for the dungeons, by adding more planes, extruding them, etc, you will have the customized dungeons. Hope that helps ))

@retroshaper thanks your tool will help my dnd games be even better i believe i got it working

@@robertstratford3584 awesome! Happy to hear that 😊

Hey! Thanks for the comment! Haven’t tried this yet, but I think it is possible

Will do my best) thanks for the feedback 😊

Hi! Thanks for following the tutorial. From the top of my head, is the GN modifier enabled for rendering? As far as I understand, you’re rendering the animation, right? If yes, does it render anything at all, or just one frame?

That sound awesome! Thanks for following the series! 😃

Hey! Glad you’ve enjoyed the video 😊 it is still the same object if created with a single geometry nodes setup. You may try converting the whole thing to mesh by applying the modifier (make sure to use realize instances node if you’re instantiating anything). That’s the easiest approach. However, if you still want to modify parameters of the node tree, you may need to create animation inside the GN, which is quite limiting at the moment.

It does. I assume that is when the ""Bake sound to curve" was renamed to "Sound to samples" and is now located under "Channel" menu

@@retroshaper I cant even Import it. Its grayed out.

@@minebloxer7445 You need to select a curve to which you want the sound to be baked. snipboard.io/rlwDsG.jpg

And how? i tryed literly everything but it wont work @@retroshaper

@@minebloxer7445 I assume you already have a parameter which you want to animate with curves. E.g. scale of the cube. First, you need to insert a key in the dope sheet. Just hover over the parameter and click "I" on the keyboard. Navigate to the graph editor, select the object and a curve with RMB that you want to bake sound to. From there, go to channel -> sound to samples.

Thanks for the comment. Yes, there is such effect. It happens because of the scaling of the faces on a mesh which reached small size through spline parameter. To remove the suckers on the z axis, you may deselect the spline/curve points on which the suckers should not appear. When you select points and pass them as attributes later on to the mesh transformed from the curve, you’ll select the whole set of faces formed from those points. Hope that helps 😊

it sounds like it should! thanks! @@retroshaper

Thank you so much for sharing this!) Super useful information!)

Hey! Thank you so much for the feedback! Happy to hear that this tutorial helped) Absolutely, you can export the mesh to fbx or any other file type supported by blender. Just make sure to add “Realize Instances” node in the end of your node tree. This node will make instantiated geometries “real” meshes) after that you can apply the GN modifier and export mesh in a standard way) hope that help)

@@retroshaper Excellent ! i'm definetely going to give it a try. thank you again for all the useful tips!

Thank you the feedback!) 😊

Hi! Thanks for the comment. The current setup is designed to create corridors with some props randomly without any complicated logic behind, so it would be complicated to update it for the example you e provided. However, similar method may be used to create/generate rooms with props and furniture. Multiple factors can be taken into account, like seed of rooms division, size of faces, etc

@@retroshaper Well i had a thought that all things should spawn along walls. most furniture in a kitchen would anyway but say a table and chairs, that could spawn away from a wall so its into the middle of the room more but was spawned in using a point along a wall. I did have another idea using a sort of modular layout thing, do you have discord? i could explain better what i was thinking

@@speaker6060 Hey! Sorry for late response. I think what you are looking for is in the Distribute Points on Faces node. This one has an option - Position Disk, which will allow you to pick distance between points in a radius. I do have a discord, but I’m not very active there right now, unfortunately. It is Retroshaper ))

Thank you so much for the feedback! I hope to release some new stuff soon ☺️😉

Thank you so much for watching!) Glad to be helpful ☺

Thank you very much for the feedback! ☺☺

That is weird.. The new button gets disabled only with the unsupported object selected, like camera or lights..

@@retroshaper yeah i didn't click either just the bezier then went to geometry nodes

itll be because u arent on blender 3 +, i had the same issue until i realised i was on version 2.9.3 and using geometry nodes on bezier curves only works on version 3 and up

Thanks for the feedback! Yes, sometimes textures get oriented in a wrong way, especially whit generated uv coordinates. When I notice things like those, I try fixing it with mapping node in the material or manually uv map.

Glad I’m not the only one taking notice lol. Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Thank you very much for the feedback! Really appreciate it ☺

Yes, I'm pretty sure there are )

Thank you so much! ☺☺

Thank you so much for the feedback! ☺

Thanks for the feedback! I was thinking about making more of similar videos in future ☺

Дякую велике! 😊😊

I haven’t tried 4.0 yet. However, even with the previous versions I was trying to make the prompts for super easy features or actions. Taking into account how fast blender evolves, ChatGPT just can’t get all those changes taken into accounts))

@@retroshaper i like chat gpt for somethings but coding is not its strong point. I even found documentation for nodes and cut and pasted pages into a note pad and fed it through conversation and chat gpt 4 still fumbled the ball constantly. Im not quite sure how some youtubers are claiming to build add ons and geo nodes. Im very confused. I know by using python you stand a much better chance however when developing in python you cant acheive real time manipulation of meshs like with nodes.

@@wrillywonka1320 I absolutely agree with you. I just use this as a tool to help me out with very basic things that will take me more time to do manually. Of course, no need to rely completely on it 🙂

@@retroshaper i respect the hobesty. Ive been noticing chat gpt works better for people actually already know stuff like coding etc. Then they use it to streamline. All this "natural language" doesnt do the "average joe" much good just yet

Thank you so much for the feedback! 😊I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the video ☺️

Hi! Thanks for the comment! Strange. Maybe a cached thing. You can always add a new or custom workspace. Try adding a new workspace with the "+" tab like so: snipboard.io/2JvP6M.jpg . Geometry nodes should be there.

@@retroshaper thanks ill try that!!