Questions tagged [geometry]
Questions pertaining to creating, generating or editing an objects geometry. Object geometry is defined by editing and creating the location and rotation of vertices, edges, and faces.
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How to use geometry nodes to generate a 2D array of cubes with random heights (integer 1-4) and make adjacent cubes have different heights?
I used the Grid node to generate a 2D lattice, adjusted the lattice height and cube height based on random integer numbers, and then used the Instance on Points node to generate a cube array. But how ...
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How to express flat line motion graphics effects
Hello, I'm trying to create motion graphics like the photo above.
I looked through several tutorials, but couldn't find what I was looking for.
I want to make that image shine in that shape on some ...
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Delete Curve geometry based on edge Angle
Can I delete parts of a curve based on black and white values .
I have a mesh that deforms
I have a curve attached to that mesh
I have created a edge selection using the edge angle node on the ...
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How to fill a 2D area with N 2D quads of different shapes but same area?
I have a 1000 m² N-gon of a curved shape. I want to cut it in 100 10 m² pieces and have a look at different variants of filling. Like manually changing the shape of one piece and have other pieces ...
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'Fill caps' not working in Geometry of Mesh Curve
I tried to make a coral but was unable to fill the caps. As you can see, the option is not clickable. I also can't see options like 'Round', 'Object', or 'Profile' and I don't understand why.
I made ...
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display and edit value into geometrynode properties
how to display and edit this value of a node in the GEOMETRYNODE property window
thanks
In fact the value I want to make available in the property panel is a scale value of the "value" node....
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How to decurve or straighten a mesh?
Well I have a curved mesh that I want it to be straight.
I wanted to know what is the best and fastest way to straighten this mesh.
The mesh is already bent and I now use the armature and some ...
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Geometry Nodes - Point Instance Boolean
I want to create a scatter-like forest pack in Blender. How can I create the "Edge Trim" feature available in 3ds Max (explained in this video) with Blender?
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Geometry Nodes - Curve To Point - Rotation Problem for door
I want to add a door model between the two vertexes I selected in the geometry node. but I wonder how can I fix the reverberation of the doors in the corner? Thank you :)
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Get the coordinates of the intersection between a line and 3d model
I'm new to Blender. I want to know if there's a way to get the coordinates of the intersection point between a given line and a 3D model, just like the picture below. Thanks!
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Bone rotation offset help
I have a series of bones that I want to rotate using only one bone.
Rules:
The rotation of the effected bones rotate only along x axis
The effector bone has a fall off value
The effector bone slides ...
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Can we combine a image texture and a ies light on a spot lamp?
I wanto make the gobo light effect so i want to combine the stencil and the effect of ies file , with shader enable on spot , trying to make in cycle engine , can anyone help me to build one
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Geometry nodes: Split curve to segments by angle
I have a bunch of connected edges as a base mesh. What I want is to split my edges by angle, convert theses edges to a curve and trim that curve by a certain distance. Split Edges node works, but does ...
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Geometry Nodes - Curve To Point - Rotation Problem
If I have one dot, it becomes a problem. but when there is more than one point due to the distance, it is difficult to rotate.emphasized text
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Geometry nodes: Select vertex on an edge by angle
I have a simple mesh, which is just an edge and i want to instance objects on some points.
Points, which have 3 or 4 connected edges
Points, which have 2 connected edges, but have 90 degree angle ...
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How to Set the Origin to geometry following a curve
Plane is placed at Point A
Curve is placed at Point B
Using the Curve modifier, Plane follows the Curve path at Point B, but leaves behind its origin at Point A meaning the only thing at Point A is ...
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how to remove vertical lines ? you need to leave only the vertical [duplicate]
how to remove vertical lines . you need to leave only the vertical. geometry nodes
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Trying to delete bad face, can select edges but not face
I am using knife project onto an object to make recessed portions. On the edge of object, I would like to inset and do a negative extrude, however, I end up with a thin face I cannot get rid of with ...
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shade auto-smooth ceates holes in mesh
when I shade my object auto smooth I get holes along the edges, shade smooth does not create this problem but an edge-split with auto smooth does. The normals are facing the correct way and there is ...
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Procedural Node for Wood Texture For 3D Print
I am trying to 3d print an object which needs a wood texture. I have used shader nodes to create wood texture (is that even the right term? bc i have not used texture node..).
I want to try to use a ...
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Realizing instances generated with geometry nodes while preserving rotation
Hi everyone,
I created geometry nodes and want to export them in gltf/glb format (to use with three.js). The important thing here is that as a result I need to have many individual sprinkle meshes ...
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Is it possible to do "Mesh>Sort Elements>Selected" in geometry nodes? [duplicate]
In Blender there is a function call "Sort Elements", which change indices order (but without changing position of vertices, edges or faces), depending on different variables (for example: &...
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Uneven geometry on semisharp edges
How can I smooth out these harsh edges(circled in red) and make the geometry look more like what I have circled in green.
I've tried using the smooth tool in sculpt mode, and while that does seem to ...
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Geometry Nodes - Vertex Group - Add Less More
I convert Weight Paint(Vertex group) to Shader map (with geometry nodes), And I want to select more (like ctlr + (+) in edit mode) graiden in geometr nodes, can you hepl please, thank you :)
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GeoNodes - Incremental Rotation object on curves
I have created a path array in Autodesk Alias where I can use an "Incremental Rotation" option and easily create the rendering shown in the reference image.
But I do not know how to ...
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Geometery Nodes N Ripple Flow
Can someone point me in the right direction of going about creating a ripple effect that can be applied to a mesh that allows the object to be stationary and still project a ripple in a desired ...
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Geometry Nodes // Rotate instances separately based on rotation and location of Empty Sphere
I have a grid with instances. I then added an Empty Sphere and want to rotate all of the instances 90° which are within the range of the Empty Sphere.
I figured out to rotate all of the instances at ...
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How can I change the X scale of an object according to a curve?
So I have this object, which is simply a basic mesh with an array modifier and a curve modifier that causes it to create many copies of it along a curve that moves with the dragon's back.
The thing ...
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My mesh keeps deforming and random vertices merge during animation after I ctr+j a cube
I can usually just go back a few steps to fix the glitch but when I try to merge them again it will corrupt the same way as soon as I press play. There are no bones and adding them didn't help. I've ...
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Is there a simple way to enable collision with geometry nodes?
new to geometry node, in the exemple below im trying to make the curves, instanced on points on the mesh going along the surface of the objets, the stripes are animated with a fake wind effect (wave ...
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Orthographic View Alignment on the Y-Axis
If I create a cube, move it away in the x direction, and zoom all the way in toward it (i.e. from either left or right), its center is still aligned with the origin:
Same with the z direction. But if ...
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Weird clouds appearing when converting mesh into SDF
I'm following this tutorial on how to morph one object into another. It converts an object into an SDF, similar to a Metaball, so they can merge together. It works for most objects, but the ones I am ...
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How do I nicely curve two perpendicular rectangles?
I have two rectangles that I want to smoothly curve along the green line I've marked.
Ends (marked red circles) must stay in place.
How do I do this? I am begginer to Blender.
I've joined the two ...
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How can I get geometry nodes group node-tree name?
How can I get geometry nodes group node-tree name?
With this code I can get the name of node, but I need get name of node-tree assigning to this node group instead.
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"Masonry" alignment of 2D or 3D objects of various sizes using geometry nodes
i would like to take a collection of image planes, for example, or 3D objects of various sizes and instance them in a "masonry" style distribution pattern based that arranges each instance ...
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Deleting overlapping shapes (with Geometry Nodes)
I'm using Geometry Nodes to instance shapes in my scene and I'm trying to figure out if those instances overlap with another specific object. For the sake of simplicity, the specific object is a cube ....
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How do I align extruded faces perpendicular to the global z axis using geometry nodes
I am new to Geo nodes. I have converted the edges of the road to curve and then used curve line to get faces, then used extrude mesh node to extrude individual faces along z axis, but I want the faces ...
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Vertex crease creates unwanted stretching
I've been looking for a proper way to make the creased vertices stay in line with the subdivided geometry but it ends up creating an unwanted corner stretching.
I'm trying to get something like this, ...
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I created this circle with geometry nodes but its not filling faces, I connected Fill curve node but still not working
I Just want to create a pie chart animation, so i created a circle with goemetry nodes but its not filling faces of up side
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Using LoopTools to flatten quads and N-gons: Can I lock the position of one vertex point?
Hello I'm new here and hope someone can help me.
So I have this quad and I need it to be perfectly flat. I discovered the addon LoopTools and using it to flatten ("best fit") works pretty ...
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Has anyone else encountered the issue with the Limit Rotation bone constraint?
I'm having an issue with my transform constraints. It seems that when I apply a Limit Rotation constraint, the bone completely ignores it.
The Issue
https://youtu.be/LohLP-KnWrY
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Why everything looks messed up when I'm not locked to the camera? [duplicate]
Blender newbie here. I've been working on a background for quite some time, I stopped working on it for a couple of weeks and last time I was on the file everything was ok but when I opened it today I ...
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Joining Objects based on Proximity
I am looking for a way to join objects based on the proximity of their origins/geometry, if such a thing is even possible.
What I want to do is join each of the cones to the sphere that is directly ...
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Height map from image geometry node position
I'm making a flat mesh using a plane and geometry nodes. I am using a heightmap that I generated to displace the z for points on the mesh. However, the image is being transformed into a square and not ...
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Crossing in geometry nodes
Have anyone idea how to do a crossing in blender geometry nodes?I've made something like below but don have idea how to make faces in geometry nodes Thanks in advance.
To be more specific I'd like to ...
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Bevel a curve in blender
When I bevel a curve in blender I end up with something like this
I'd like something more like this
Is there a way to achieve it ?
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Points to curves in geometry nodes
I have a project in which I want to fill a human shape with wire. So I found this great but rather old tutorial online which uses animation nodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3CwKkiJZN0&...
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Creating one surface skin without hidden parts from all these loose parts
I have this file
https://uploadnow.io/f/mLKhQKj
and I want to keep only what is in front like a skin or so. As you can see the column is full. I press Z and the model turn with that face up. So, is ...
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Need help with UV Unwrapping complex geometry
I'm working on a modelling project and have unwrapped the whole model except for one section of complex geometry which I'm really not sure how to tackle. I've looked around google for similar geometry ...
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What technique does blender use ofr Smart UV unwrap?
I am writing an academic document and need to cite blender. The issue is, I need to be able to name the technique it uses. I assume it probably uses somthing like ABF++ or LSCM, but I don't know for ...
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