Questions tagged [animation-nodes]
An add-on that provides a node based visual scripting system designed for motion graphics in Blender. This tag should be used when asking about how to use the add-on and not when asking about animating nodes in general.
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I cannot install Animation Nodes add-on
I am trying to install an Animation Nodes add-on to Blender 2.8. I tired GraphicAll and Github respectively. The system is rejecting and error message said that I have multiple versions of animation ...
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Animation Nodes - Multiple Particle Hair systems distribution, and mimic child particles
I followed a tutorial on how to distribute object with particle hair system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GahQXc8QQuc
I also add a few nodes from another tutorial to get the whole collection ...
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Books on a shelf AN question
So I'm trying construct procedural node-graph in Animation Nodes to distribute books on a shelf (or any other surface). Getting them randomly from collection to certain location with random distance ...
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how to achieve this grid falloff with animation nodes?
I want to get the falloff effect through animation nodes as in this video
Are there any ideas?
Video from Instagram here by @cavidmdw
Thank you
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Create graph using animation nodes
How to Create graph like this using animation nodes?
It should be X,Y values animateable
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Blender 2.82 animation nodes toolbar is missing
Animation nodes toolbar is missing.
Latest AN for blender 2.8x installed and works.
Only the toolbar not shown.
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Using animation nodes to create / animate different 3D Polyhedrons solids using the expression node
Using animation nodes to make 3D platonic / geometric / polyhedrons solids using expression node. The reason I want to do this is to animate them in different ways. Some of the objects would be ...
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Animation Nodes can Not be enabled and also can not be deleted
Animation Nodes addon (Jacques Lucke Version 2.1.4 ) can Not be enabled in Blender 2,82a and also can not be deleted There is an exclamation mark icon inside triangle and it says ...
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AN and extra mesh addon
I treid but I see no way of adding addional images to this post so I'm giving up
this question is inspired by a post from wishmasteregel called "How to create explicit (parametric) functions in ...
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Can Pycharm be used in animation node script?
Hil all,
i set pycharm up to write code for blender.
I can read code from blender text editor from pycharm and the console in blender prints out correctly, but i dont get any output from the script ...
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Animation Nodes: Propogate a vector path along either X "OR" Y axis randomly without overlap
I'm trying to make a maze like vector path which only has 90 degree turns and no intersection
Using a parameter loop with "Reassign" mode + a random boolean controlling which axis gets a value added ...
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Animation Nodes : Use Previous output of a Loop in calculation of the next iteration
What i am trying to achieve :
Random floating floors (square plane)
floating stairs connecting to each of them (Line generator with steps)
all floating floors have another floor which is parallel to ...
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I am having trouble installing animation nodes
I am trying to install the animation nodes addon on my mac, but I keep getting this error message
I cannot find the specified folders on my mac and would really like some help if anyone knows what ...
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I'm having problem enabling Animation Nodes in blender 2.82
I dont know what to do. Im pretty sure you will get the idea what is wrong by seeing this picture. I'm new doing animation in blender so any help will be apprreciated...
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"Dll load failed" error when trying to install Animation Nodes in 2.81b and 2.8
Not a top notch programmer here, just an artist. Recently tried using AN with 2.8 and 2.81b but have been getting this error (Image Attached). Too much to type and I'm not sure exactly what's wrong.
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Splines Animated by Sound - Animation Nodes
I've just made the change from Blender 2.79 to 2.81a. I've also updated my Animation Nodes to 2.1.4. Both are installed and working as expected except for the Sound Baking function in AN. Some ...
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It"s possible to morph a spline in multi-spline controling the delay on time?
moving in the same direction of this idea -Morphing Object-Distributions on multi-splines(Animation Nodes - Blend distribution of objects on a curve into another curve), i find the way to morph spline ...
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Set particle emission number
I have a empty with a cube shape. Inside that I generate points. Then I have a torus, if a point is inside the torus then I render it as a particle, if it is outside the torus then I ignore it.
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Animation Nodes Error When Checking off Add-on
I have installed Animation Nodes from animation_nodes_v2_1_windows_py37.zip in Blender 2.80. Installation seemed fine. When I check off 'Node: Animaton Nodes' in the list off Add-ons, I get an error ...
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Is LSystem broken?
I Have a very simple question. Is there a way to make LSystem on Animation Nodes to be shown on object mode? My system only is displayed and updates when I enter edit mode.
Thanks!
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Why doesn't Animation Nodes' '3D Viewer' node display anything in the viewport when connected to a 'Distribute Matrices' node?
In Blender 2.81.16, AN 2.1.5 connecting a 3D Viewer to the Distribute Matrices does nothing - you would expect there to be 16 here...
In the following animation from the Animation Nodes docs it looks ...
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how to do the earth position animation with auto camera tracking
let's say I have a .csv file with format as follow:
I have created the earth:
I want to do with Blender:
a.the longitude and latitude show as a sphere's position
b.the mag be as the sphere's ...
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Animation Nodes - Delay Rotation
Let's say there are two cubes: A and B. The A cube is rotated by the Dope Sheet. I would like the B cube to follow the A cube rotation, but with a delay of 10 frames. Is that possible to accomplish in ...
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how can i add backgrounds and animate them in blender 2.80 2d animation?
Im making a 2d animation and added a background but the background doesn't appear in the render and neither in the frames.
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why is this animation node offset polygon rendering wrong?
The scene is rendered correctly in the camera view, but wrong in the rendered image. The wrong part is an object which's using offset polygon node.
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Ben 10 omnitrix animation
So i have modelled the omnitrix, and now i want to animate it. I am very new to animation. I wanted to know, ho to achieve the effect as in the two images 3 and 4. When the two pieces approach each ...
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How can we 'attach' animation nodes to objects?
I want to find a way to attach the animation-node tree with a collection or an object. So that when I link/append the collection to other scene, the animation node tree also comes with it and ...
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Help with rendering "wispy stocking effect" / emission shader / texture / material
I'm trying to reproduce the image below in Blender 2.8
From the a Strange Attractor site
I've tried using an emission shader and converting points to a curve but it doesn't even come close.
My ...
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shape tweening with animation nodes and sound
My ultimate intention is to shape tween different object based on different frequency outputs from a song. IE High notes shape tween objects A, low notes shape tween objects B...and so on. (I am no ...
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Have letters slide along pane then fall into a bucket
I'd like to create an animation where several words moves along an edge (hard surface). When the letters get to the end of the edge, each letter then falls into a containers. The container then ...
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Making a cursor (caret) that leads the typing effect using animation nodes
I am trying to simulate a dos prompt screen. using the text nodes in animation nodes I have the act of typing simulated. However is there a way to have a cursor box automatically lead the text, or is ...
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how to add vertex colors to multiple objects using animation nodes
What are the steps to assign a list of colors to the vertex color of a list of objects? The 'set vertex color' node does not accept a
list of colors and a list of objects. So how to wrap this action ...
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animation nodes bool difference union intersect
How to do Boolean mesh operations with animation nodes (difference, union, intersect)?
The Boolean nodes for animation nodes seem to be for manipulating lists of numbers not mesh data?
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AN: Platonic Solid Fractal Maker
I have this node setup in animation nodes :
and am trying to make this object:
What I want is to be able to take one of those "iteration" boxes and loop it. But when I try to do it, I get ...
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Animation Nodes - Random Object Data Path Value
I need to create several random leafs using Animation Nodes. Each one should be composed of a mesh, an empty, and a Bend/Simple Deformer Modifier to make some deformations. The mesh and the empty are ...
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Time remapping does not work with particle info node
This was a fairly hard problem to find. I also discovered that it is not an easy one fix. The issue is that the particle info node gets messed up when you use time remapping.
I'm not going to explain,...
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Want to render animation nodes text animation on sheepit [duplicate]
I have a blender animation where I have used the trim text feature of the animation nodes add-on of blender. However, when I upload it to the render farm, those parts don't render out. I've been told, ...
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Blender 2.8 and Animation Nodes build from Chris Prenninger [duplicate]
As Blender 2.8 has a new build everyday, is the Animation Nodes build from Chris Prenninger (made on May 5) still valid?
It does not work for me :(
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Having trouble installing animation nodes addon
Im trying to install the animation nodes add-on to blender but I cant see the zip file when I click install. I know i'm in the right location, the file just doesn't show up.
This is probably a total ...
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List of parameter options in Animation Nodes
I see there are boolean nodes, but is there any way to create list of named options so that the a user can pick one and specific part of tree will be executed?
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How Can I define rigid plane?
I want to pour cubes which are in the image. However when I animate blender p plane passing through to the cubes. How can I solve this problem? I just want to pour cubes and observe falling of cubes ...
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duplicate mesh error in blender animation nodes2.1
i tried to duplicate mesh using "transform mesh "node,but i faced a issue as the below:
i don't know how to fix the issue?anyone has an idea,thank you!
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how do i store a value when using animation nodes?
I am translating a list of objects but I only want the translation in the x,y,z plane to occur during frame one then after frame one the translation to happen only in the x,y plane.
Any help is ...
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Animate colour change, in text with the beat
how do i change the text colour like this guys intro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCiMz1iOFE
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here is the screenshot, like how do i animate the colour change of the text
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Convert rotation from sign switching to continuous in Animation Nodes
Plane is simply rotating on Z axis around origin from 0 deg to infinity (linear interpolation), AN extracts this rotation from polygon. Extracted motion looks fine but it isn't calculated as cumulated/...
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Animation Nodes - bake sound, bake spectrum, evaluate sound
I make this node tree using "bake sound" mainly.
I hope it helps, I have been investigating the possibilities offered by this node and some possibilities of use.
The first time we need to bake a ...
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Limiting precision level in Animation Nodes?
Is there a perfomance wise way to limit decimal numbers for all values inside NodeTree?
Sometimes I don't need that many decimal numbers, especially for comparing values to get desired boolean result....
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fractured object meshes follow along path in order in AN
I want fractured object meshes to follow a path in a defined order in Animation Nodes, like in this video.
Here is a gif of the animation:
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View polygon's index as non-tuple in Animation Nodes
I wonder how can I see polygon's index not as tuple of vertices indices, but as single number?
There is polygon viewer in N-panel which is what I want, but works ...
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Why does rigid body physics not work in objects created by an object instancer? (Animation nodes)
Simple setup:
When I've played an animation, an instanced cube has stayed put:
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