Lego anything with this NEW Blender geometry nodes feature
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Using the new instance attributes in geometry nodes, we can now turn models into Lego bricks! They can even keep their color. Using instances means we can make much larger Lego scenes. If you want to be able to export models, the instances must be realized, and some of the settings in the node tree need to be changed to use geometry instead of instances
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Edit: In Blender 4.0 the mesh to volume node doesn't have the interior/exterior bandwidth options. I don't have an immediate replacement, but this still works without those options.
I said something wrong in this! Location from the Object Info node is the global location, so it will only work the same as the Object Texture Coordinate if your object's origin point is 0,0,0. You can do this by Applying All Transforms with Ctrl A.
Hopefully this makes sense
Sorry also, that bevel bit?? Hit CtrlB, sure done that before, C just makes it all freak out - what did you actually mean, you kinda skip over it - which faces exactly?
Edit: oh shiiiiit the line faces not the faces faces 👍
Beautiful ❤️
@@crumblebee6728 which line faces did you use to bevel, i cant find out the combination.
Your work rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Very cool!
"Legos"
YOURE OUTTA THE CLUB!
A cool thing you can do is map the texture's colors to match with Lego's official color palette.
This is something I'd love to see
Then use it to build it in real life
@@snailcheeseyt I guess you could use it for that, but you can do already that using Tinkercad. I think this Blender feature is more meant for rendering CGi 'Lego-fied' scenes/objects.
@@ianjtgove well damn
@@snailcheeseyt this is a good thing it means you can except to see more fan made Lego animated short films and renders
I wouldn't even know what I want to Legofy with this but you explained it so well and the setup is so simple I have to try it. Thank you so much for sharing and explaining your work! I can already feel this tutorial is going places.
Low res simulations 😉
Honestly, I have no intention of legofying anything. But I learned a lot of useful info about attribute transfer that'll be helpful in completely different projects.
I really want to legofy Pochita now looking at your pfp lol
@@julianas.3352 That's a great idea, actually!
Same, also, I have no idea how to do blender, but its entertaining.
A great addition to this would be to get a list of the most common official lego block colours, and index the UVMap colours to the closest one!
That should cut down on a lot of the colour variance that you wouldn't normally have in a lego set
You can do it with Photoshop as a workaround
Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to do this? I'm a blender noob
It's so satisfying to see someone so proficiently explain something I don't even understand. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Exactly
Geometry nodes are my favorite addition to Blender. There's just so much incredible stuff you can do with them. They make all kinds of tasks easier, just so long as you can work out how to use the nodes.
It’s all to your advantage.
Any good tutorials and or recourses to learn nodes
@deanwilson9317 check my channel, I have a whole playlist
And now you can use them to pose/animate hair (3.5) and do dynamical simulations (3.6).
I'm sure you're right, but for me as a newb still working though the Donut tutorial, they feel seriously overwhelming.
I was just not able to grasp what geometry nodes are ever since they were first introduced but after this tutorial looks like I'm going to have to figure it out because this was just amazing!
I have a few beginner videos to get started. Also, @erindale has a good beginner course that could help a lot
This is amazing. Blender has come a long way.
I love how concise and high quality your tutorials are. Thank you good sir.
Clicked on this bc I just wanted to save this vid for later, ended up watching it entirely because it was so interesting and seems really easy to follow thanks you for showing us this!
I did the same, definitely want to try this later. Super neat
The geometry node setup we didn't know we needed! This is so cool 😎
One of the best Blender tutorials I've seen in awhile. On behalf of the Blender community, thank you! 🙌🏻
Just discovered your channel and learning blender a few weeks ago, can't wait until I'm able to do stuff like this. Fantastic video and editing, going to binge your channel now and save lots of videos for later!
never in my life have I used a 3d rendering program but you explained it so well even I was able to follow your explanation; today I learned about nodes lol. the results look super cool! and being able to set two different resolutions for render and viewport is such a neat little trick!
This is such a well made tutorial. I haven't tried Geometry Nodes (I haven't used Blender for years, actually) and this was super easy to follow and understand. Blender is truly amazing.
woww well done! it turned out so nice and accurate, while also being very editable
So simple. Brilliant. This is state of the art tutorial. You are the best Joey. Thank you.
This is a great video for people who have some difficulty messing with blender, you gave simple and to-the-point explanations and showed where everything is. Simple and easy to follow, and very fun to watch and learn from
i love your tutorials so much! never fail to inspire me and you're so good at explaining
A very good and clear tutorial! I did something like this in Houdini, but now it feels that Blender is also getting there.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing
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I know you, I love your content, and also, you have the name of people in my family, last name and first name, I find that quite funny.
What are you cooking
Damn, I was just working on that and was about to release a tutorial, but you beat me to it. But good tutorial though.
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Lmao same
So work now on use more kinds of lego pieces depending on the geometry, like use roof pieces for roofs... ...and tree pieces for trees...
@@eduardoanonimo3031 Thats what I'm figuring out right now, but I dont know how I would do this
@@themaddove9687 just adjust the colors to the real Lego pallette, start by that.
This is amazing! And dude you are fast! I have yet to use the nodes in blender, but this is definitely something to inspire me to give it a go
You make this stuff look so easy. I've been learning maya at my Community College but I wanted to see what blender has to offer too. Looks like it's just as viable.
Wow that’s beautiful and insane
Definitely gonna be trying that soon
Thank you for sharing your skills
been doing blender for a decade, feels good to still be learning new things. great vids!
Awesome effects, congrats on figuring it out!
This was one of the best Blender vids I have seen. Perfect! Could follow all steps and had no questions after watching, and im new at blender.
I was thinking about making a video on this as well, but I could have never made it as good as this video. Amazing job!
You still can if you'd like. Everyone has a different way of explaining.
@@JoeyCarlino true🙃
I have a comic I’m working on where the characters have filled a room full of Lego constructions and I was dreading having to figure out how to draw that many legos while staying on-model for each perspective change. Now thanks to you I can once again abuse blender to do my job for me
And yes i know im really late
That switch node part made me literally cheer irl. I could integrate this to other trees as well, to make my pc work properly in the node tree. Thanks for the tutorial.
This is awesome!! very helpful tutorial too, the basic shaping of it can easily be done in 5-10 minutes. Love it !!
Absolutely amazing tutorial! I found you when you subbed for CGMatter and I have actually really enjoyed your tutorials! Please keep up the good work my guy, gj.
(also how do I make the materials of an object transfer correctly with one object with multiple materials)
When selecting the verical edges at 2:50, Select two of them, turn on “face stepping” under “pick shortest path” at the bottom left, finish selecting the verticals and then bevel.
there is no such option
YOU NEED TO PRESS CONTROL WHILE SELECTIGN THE SECOND EDGE!!!!!!
still doesnt work
This was the push I needed to start learning to use Blender! Thank you!
Great editing on this and so efficiently explained
This is an amazing tutorial.
I wonder how hard it would be to make different sized LEGO pieces? Like 1x2s and 4x2s
Like, if there is a way to make the pattern look like it's somewhat interconnected for structural and stability instead of 1x1s just floating in the air on some parts.
Actually it's not too hard if you watch Blender Guru Donut tutorial he explains how to make different sprinkle sizes using geometry nodes. It's just a matter of making 1x2's and 4x2 then using a random value node there's more to it than that but yes it's possible.
@@ipaxton But in this case it's not a sprinkle, they have to fit together like tetris, and that caused problems even on a donut
@@OrbitalCookie They might be onto something tho. Cubes in a system should be a whole lot easier to align than random sprinkles in all shapes and sizes.
It definitely feels possible, but who will be the brave soul to figure it out.
@@Into_Ingrid You would need each brick to independently decide what connections to make with other bricks.
This could be faked by using deterministic noise (perlin/simplex ir similar noise). Noise could be sourced from texture. Not sure how to do this in Blender. This would not make ideal bricks, but at least it would look like there are random bricks used to make a model.
Like, how the hell people figure this out??
wow! you are so good at what you do! Im in awe at how people know what every node/button does/can do. I'd love to be able to use Blender, but I'm so useless at learning. What a great skill to have. Thanks for the upload and sharing your knowledge.
thank you so much for explaining the nodes in a way that makes sense
The more i learn about blender the lesser i know !!
How much of the nodes are we supposed to copy for each specified material if our model has multiple materials?
Like from what starting node to em what end node for each material. Appreciate you sharing this tutuorial👏👏
This is insanely cool. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us!
I've never used Blender but this really made me curious! This connecting nodes system looks very logical and intuitive
It's truly amazing. Is it possible to feed the geonodes a collection of bricks or somehow make a setup that will merge some bricks together so that it isn't just those singular stubby bricks involved? You know, for that true lego look. Would be especially cool if it was possible to make pieces of varying height make sense visually.
I would like to see it this is posible
I'm sure there is a way but I haven't found one yet. If I do then I'll make a follow up video
@@JoeyCarlino cool
@@JoeyCarlino I would love to see that. It'll most likely involve some complicated math or positioning set up with some restrictions on how the blocks are arranged depending on where their position is in the volume but I don't really know how to set up that stuff correctly, so I might as well be speaking out of my ass here haha
Fantastic tutorial, but I am relatively new at blender and I have two problems I'd had no luck fixing them. When I imported a model it came untextured except when in the shading menu. and I'm not sure how I would bring back all the materials if I have multiple. in the Transfer UV part of the video, I don't think it says what to do if I have more than one. I would love some help here so I can finish this!
Same here
i'm lost too
Even if it isn't relevant for you anymore...you need to bake the textures to a single image
I used to model legos before I knew about this. I don't do modelling anymore but when I would model a lego I would flip my laptop to where the screen was flat and lay the lego I wanted on there and model around it. Flip it to the side, switch cameras and you got yourself a perfectly modelled lego. The important thing is to not mess with you zoom settings as it would throw the dimmensions wildly off.
Be carefull with the word "Lego". This company has sued others before for using their brand title for other products than their own.
Don't call it Lego - Lego actually doesn't like this. It's Klemmbausteine. Or just bricks.
I know nothing about blender or how to use it and just thought this concept was cool, and even for me it was very easy to follow what you were doing, great video
So good. So concise. So refreshing to have a tutorial which does exactly what it says on the tin.
Looks like I subscribed JUUUST before 100K. Congrats! Awesome content. I am learning a lot. 🙏
Thanks for sharing this. Really cool!
Awesome and incredibly informative tutorial. Great job! Love the effect. I can't wait to try it. Subscribed!!
Incredible work! Nothing's motivated to learn blender nodes than this video tutorial :)
So thorough and easy to follow. Thank you!
Oh wow this is insane. Big ups for this tutorial! Thank you for sharing.
Just a perfect walkthrough and video. Thanks for all you do!
It was very useful in every aspects mate.
Thank you
my man to be honest with you, your voice literly a perfect things to make me sleep it feel so comfortable to fall asleep while hearing someone explain about lego model on blender
Bro that's insane, how you keep up with all those tabs 🤯 I haven't used blender yet but I'm really looking forward to the challenge. Videos like this often are overwhelming but on the same note, it makes me want to experience it even more so
You're awesome. This is so much easier and more powerful than it used to be!
that's actually insane! thank you !
Just did this in 3.6. It works! I liked and subscribed!
Geometry nodes is amaizing! Great tutorial!
This is super cool! Three epic things all combined in a video; Lego, blender, and you ofc! :)
WOW! It's AMAZING! Thank you!
This is pure magic! Thank you for the great tutorial!
Man. This is so insane! I’ve been practicing every day. I can’t wait until I’m this familiar with Blender.
I've been trying to find if there's any ways to see the dimension in blender for month!! thank you!! and great tutorials, you earn a sub my dude
That was amazing! Thank you very much for all that useful information!
What an amazing tut for a newbie. Thank you and wonderful vidjya!!
I love this video, got to learn a lot not gonna lie, keep up the good work brother
I barely have any cursory understanding of 3D modeling processes but I still found this entertaining enough to watch all the way through
Brilliant tutorial! Subscribed / liked :) 👍🏻👍🏻
simply amazing! everyday I stumble upon some amazing geometry nodes tutorial
Great tutorial! Thank you for making this video! Have a blessed week!
Amazing! Thanks for the Video!
This is amazing!! I like 3d modelling and blender but wish I was smart and good and maths is to difficult for me to understand geometry nodes. Great job. This is so cool.
i never really paid attention to geometry nodes until now that’s amazing
Very cool! Thanks for the video.
This is literally one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
As someone who tried once to figure out blender for a school project one night, this blows me away
This was very informative. Thank you
This is beautiful and so fast. The LEGO company could easily be using this now. Amazing tutorial.
this is so helpful thank you!
Awesome tutorial, thanks🙂
Absolutely incredible tutorial! 💜
Thank you for using my beachball model for your tutorial, cool to see it used in such a unique way!
Thank you! It was a great example
uuhhh this was SO cool. 10 minutes that went by like a split second, awesome!
That was cool, I’m literally never going to use the info I learned from this but it was still so cool.
Amazing. Inspiring. Subbed.
This concept is pretty cool. I bet you could do the same thing with some other meshes or even have those meshes be randomized. You could make a 3D model mosaic.
This is beautiful. Thank you! very well explained! Excellent.
I see a storm of lego objects rendered in blender coming...
I tried a small variation:
I created a "Lego ABS plastic" material with the glossiness SSS and all, and mapped the color to vertex color instead of a texture. In GN i used this material instead of the original obj material. This way I don't have to modify the material and set it up for each object.
Then I can use the "bake texture to vertex colors" feature or set them manually :-)
My God I have so much to learn. This is gorgeous
Literally I’ve never touched blender but I felt like I understood all this. Awesome video
I'm nowhere near good enough yet with Blender to dabble with nodes at this level but that doesn't take away from you giving an exquisite explanation and tutorial! Super cool, may give this a go, carefully...
Fantastic content. Presented very well!
Thank you for this amazing tutorial!
If you have a mesh with multiple materials, you can use simple bake to bake it to an atlas or split the mesh by material.