I'm using Blender 3.0Beta, I want to align instances rotation along with the source mesh normals, I've seen people using align rotation to vector node, but it's been removed.
How do I make it so the instances(the planes) rotate along the normals?
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$\begingroup$ do you mean face normals or vertex normals? $\endgroup$– lemonCommented Nov 13, 2021 at 11:07
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$\begingroup$ Part of this updated answer may answer this question for you $\endgroup$– Robin Betts ♦Commented Nov 13, 2021 at 13:39
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$\begingroup$ @lemon my bad, forgot to mention face normals. $\endgroup$– Kirby CanoCommented Nov 13, 2021 at 18:16
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$\begingroup$ @RobinBetts That also works! $\endgroup$– Kirby CanoCommented Nov 13, 2021 at 18:17
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you can use this node setup, here the source geometry was a torus, instance object is a plane.
here a simple cube with a plane:
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$\begingroup$ Thank you! with this as a base, I found what I was looking for. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 13, 2021 at 18:00
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$\begingroup$ @gordie: sorry, i cannot update all my answer here in BSE for all Blender versions. If you wanna know how that works for newer versions, pls aks a new question. You can open as many questions as you want. thx. $\endgroup$– ChrisCommented Feb 15 at 11:23
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You can use the method listed above to set the instances on vertices normal, if you want to set instances on face normal use the setup below.
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Things have changed as of 4.2.1 the node is now called Align Rotation to Vector
