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#geometrynodes

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Dudley Storey
"Summer on a Stick, No. 2: Candy Apple"

In Calgary, summer is associated with Stampede and the fairground. As we start to warm up, I wanted to create a series of quick fair food renders in Blender, a series I call “Summer on a Stick”.

This is the second one, a candy apple. I found the candy apple shader particularly hard to get right; in the end, I used a combination of approaches I've previously used for car and oil paint, although I'm still less than perfectly pleased with the result.

#fediart #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #b3d #blender #Blender3D #geometrynodes #candy #blendercycles #fairground #cyclesrender #blendercommunity #geonodes #3dartwork #3dart #digitalart #fair #fairground #summer #food #candy #sweet #illustration #digitalillustration
A 3D rendering of a red candy apple, sitting in a pool of candy, with a single green leaf.
#digitalillustration
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Armoured Wizard

Geometry Nodes. Wireframe.
Start with a Cube. Add a Loop Cut, and pull one edge out.
Head to Geo Nodes.

We need 3 parts:
Original Mesh
Wireframe
Corners (as the way I'm doing it doesn't add corners)
so lets add a Join Geometry to plug them all into.
Corners are the easy bit. Instance on Points: Sphere. I've set the radius to 0.1m
For edges, I convert to Curve, and back! Add a Curve-Circle as Profile, with the same radius as Sphere.

Cont...

A simple cube, with a loop cut that has been pulled along the XX axis.
Spheres Instanced on Points
Node Tree
#blender#blender3d#geometryNodes
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Donn
  • This is my first post on Mastodon, so for an #introduction post I'm going to present a puzzle related to my interests, as I have an issue and could use the Fediverse's help! Specifically, the material falls within the intersection of those interested in #blender3d as well as playing #guitar

I'm making a guitar fretboard visualizer with #geometrynodes as part of a bigger project, and am struggling with vertex selection for specific points fed by user input (think like how notes are numbered per string in guitar tablature)

  • Alt text for the images describe the issue i'm currently tackling:

    • A grid that represents a guitar fretboard, with a numbered index starting from 0 that increases along the X-axis. Upon reaching the last fret, the index number continues at the original X location and up one on the Y-axis. This repeats across all strings for all frets.

    Below the grid is a Geometry Node setup that shows how the grid changes shape to reflect the number of frets and strings on the user guitar, with rotation and flipping for left-handedness, as well as a Sort Elements node that arranges the aforementioned index of the grid vertices.

    • In addition to the grid, small circles are instanced at every vertex of the grid with matching rotation via an Instance on Points node.
    • In the Geometry Nodes space, we can see the Player controls with an integer for each fretted string. Using Integer Math nodes, we can get the value for each fretted note.
    • Using a Viewer node, we can see the values that correspond to each fretted note (i.e. on a 25-fret, 6-string guitar: [string 1, fret 3] = 3; [string 2, fret 5] = 30, etc.)

  • With the current Player input, the expected result is to have only circle instances show up in the shape of a G Major barre chord. The idea is that the grid maintains its index that starts with 0 and increments by 1 (image 1), and circle instances are placed at the vertices corresponding to the values shown in image 4 (3, 30, 55, 79, 103, 128, all higher values won't appear on the fretboard).

  • The actual result is that nothing appears to happen; no circles are instanced to the grid. I'm currently stumped, so I'm hoping a friendly noder out there might have the solution I seek. Thanks in advance!

A grid that represents a guitar fretboard, with a numbered index starting from 0 that increases along the X-axis. Upon reaching the last fret, the index number continues at the original X location and up one on the Y-axis. This repeats across all strings for all frets. Below the grid is a Geometry Node setup that shows how the grid changes shape to reflect the number of frets and strings on the user guitar, with rotation and flipping for left-handedness, as well as a Sort Elements node that arranges the aforementioned index of the grid vertices.
In addition to the grid, small circles are instanced at every vertex of the grid with matching rotation via an Instance on Points node.
In the Geometry Nodes space, we can see the Player controls with an integer for each fretted string. Using Integer Math nodes, we can get the value for each fretted note.
Using a Viewer node, we can see the values that correspond to each fretted note (i.e. on a 25-fret, 6-string guitar: [string 1, fret 3] = 3; [string 2, fret 5] = 30, etc.)
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