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Yeah this was from the LA Blender Conference in April lol. Yeah as it turns out they literally have less colors in their brain palette to mix, depending on the kind of colorblindness. Likewise people with tetrachromia literally have totally new colors that our brain doesn’t have.

@@malymotion Ah good catch, I don’t even recall where that would’ve bee seen in this video😛 I didn’t even know about a company by that name, so yes it’s for music, or at least it will be

@@humbleraider6343 You’re welcome!

@@unknownrocketeer9289 ikr we shouldn’t have to go to all this trouble lol. But that’s why I did this so it’s easier in the future. I think I still have this file available somewhere on Patreon for download so people can just use the node without going thru all the steps in the tutorial. I should make it available for free if it’s not already.

@@Ruuubick Thsnk you much!

@@Ruuubick Thank you much!

Thank you!

Thank you so much! That’s the way I like people to explain things to me! That they don’t skip details that they assume I know while at the same time not talking down to me. So that’s what I endeavor to do.😁

Very good question! I did find a tutorial here on TH-cam that does that, but I think I might know a slightly better method. If so I’ll have to make my own tutorial for rounded ends on curves😊

Thank you so much! I try my best☺️

Well thanks! Understanding it is such a revelation which I wanted others to have too😊

Thank you so much!☺️

Thanks for asking! Actually I’ve just gone and come from the Blender Conference!

@@nrdkraft Great!

Yes that is also a good help for detailed volume! I do so for fine detail of clouds in planet atmosphere.

Ooh that’s a very good one! So, it depends on personal preference, but depending on your setup, I’d say the easiest way might be to use whatever means you’re using to corrugate your curve (if it’s something like a displacement map in Geo Nodes) plug that into its own Store Named Attribute which you can call upon in the Shaders, and manipulate that attribute there however you want (like putting it thru a ColorRamp and maybe a Mix Color). However there are other methods if your setup is much different. Please let me know!

Thank you!🥹 If it’s useful to people that’s what I hope for😊

Thank you so much! I hope I can produce some new tutorials soon!😊

What kind of texture are you trying to map using this tutorial?

That’s a good question! It depends on how I understand the result you’re looking for, but I’m sure there is a way to do any setup you want. Even if your goal doesn’t require an actual curve object, you can certainly manipulate a stripe or stripes of light to make it curved just about anyway you want. For example using a math node set to something like add or subtract over the input into your ramp, then using anything, like a wave texture, noise texture, a radial texture, or a manipulated vector or gradient. This will nudge different parts of the stripe over, or up or down.

You’re welcome!😊

Thank You, sir!😊

Thank you so much and I’m glad I could help! I hope whatever your project is will turn out awesome!🙂

I was certainly taken aback when the new Principled shader was released after I posted this video.😆 The truth tho I think is that my setup 𝘤𝘢𝘯 be used in 4.0 (other than that the 4.0 Principled node’s Specularity seems to have an error with metal which I hope they fix soon) but the question is whether it’s really needed now. Since one of the motivations behind my making this node group was the overwhelming size of the old Principled shader, in 4.0 that irritation has basically been solved with the node panels that have been introduced. I’ve honestly been more comfortable just using the Principled shader than I was before.

Yes I ran into this issue too. Specular used to affect metal as it should in the version of Blender we had while I recorded this, but I noticed in Blender 4.0 when they updated the Principled shader, the Specular doesn’t work as it should on metal. I submitted a report on this problem to the Right Click Select website and I’m hoping they address the error in another version of Blender soon. But yes, if they fix it, that setup for the Specular (through IOR like here if one chooses to do so) will serve a function of technical realism. And yes allowing a factor or Boolean for metallic parts might be useful for some people in certain cases, this tutorial merely focuses on cases where one wants an entire material to be metal. But that’s more just a preference, especially now that the Principled shader looks less busy as is anyway thanks to node panels since 4.0.

Ooh, that’s a good tip to keep in mind! I’m going to pin your comment so others can find it useful. I need to get more comfortable with Python and scripting myself.😁

@@nrdkraft That's why open software rules. If there is no necessary button to press, we just create it, then press it. :-)

@@dongiovanni1993 Exactly! And chances might be someone else made that button that we can download if it’s something others want too. Just one of the many perks of open source!😁

Thank you so much!!☺️

Oh that’s interesting! Yeah in order to accommodate an effect you want, you may have to incorporate the principles of this node setup either outside of the group created here, or in a new one more accommodating to your needs. In all honestly I don’t work with curves much beyond the experimentation I did for this tutorial lol

Thank you! I’m glad I was able to provide something that can prove useful somehow! I hope you find success in developing your own technique😁

I’d be happy too! That’s probably a subject that would be suited well for a livestream, so I may do that this Friday evening😊

Aw thank you! I like free, so I figure others do too😆

Thanks so much! Making videos is more work than I wish it was sometimes, but it’s great when others find value in it! And thank you! I’m hoping for the best.😊

Ooh that’s a great question. Sadly I don’t think so as what we do in this tutorial only crests data for vertices themselves. To do something similar for volume I think we would have to use volume objects in Geo Nodes, probably manipulating the density of three different volume objects and then combining them as XYZ data after the fact in the shader, and even then I don’t think we could easily transfer the data from a curve to a volume. But never say never! I’ll have to experiment with it and see if something effective can be done!

@@nrdkraft Thanks a lot for you answer ! I find you lasts videos very interesting and easy to understand (even if i admit it's too advanced for me now) you explain things very well, very good job 💪 Can't wait to see if you find a way to figure this out

@@TheBlaster199 Thank you so much!😊 I’m always glad if I can explain things the best way I can. And I’ll try to experiment with that when I can get a chance!😁

Indeed! That would merely be internal workings tho. On the outside the node would still show a value that uses increments of tenths (or hundredths while holding Shift), which would result in nothing happening as you click the little arrows on the sides of the value until the number reaches the amount it’s being rounded by. In which case it would make more sense user-experience-wise to leave it as is. Turning it into a real integer value as seen from the outside is also merely an aesthetic choice but it’s also easy enough to do.😁

@@nrdkraft that makes sense

Thank you so much! Hope it’s useful☺️

My pleasure! And thank you for the sub!!😊

Thank you! As evident during this, I need to go slow enough for even myself to follow😂

Thanks for your insight! In fact I did have this in mind for a larger sky scape as you suggested. I merely used a smaller scale as a quick demo. This tutorial was meant as a quick solution or a possible fix that I hope could be helpful to someone in a pinch perhaps even in something less specific than clouds, but certainly not a 101 on everything cloud. At the end of the day if this isn’t the solution that someone was looking for, they are absolutely free pass my tutorial by and find a better one more specific to their own situation.

@@nrdkraft It Can work decently, I did a little experimental using the volume cube, adding a fractal to it, and exporting to USD Format, which gives a vdb file in the volume folder to use. Imported to lightwave as vdb and checked how that would render, just for test and fun. But the main problem for larger sky scapes is the fractal textures, it´s just these ones to use and some additional model settings within them... magic musgrave noise voronoi wave In lightwave I can create really nices larger skyscapes, it has like 80 fractals and of those a special weather fractal, gardner cloud fractal, turbulence, turbulent noise, simples noise, fbm noise, windy wave noise..and many more noise types to use, with the weather fractal it´s pretty much enough to get the right settings, it has so much built in to that noise, wind scale, cloud scale, lacunarity, gain, cloud gain, wind gain, offsett, attenuation..and more than that, built in to one single texture node, coordinate positions and mapping is built in, texture can be inverted by a little checkbox invert, and the textures are scaling right, not the inverse way as the blender noise does. So yeah..I really whish they adress the fractals in blender, starting by letting us access the cloud fractal...which we can´t for the density of the cube volume, then adress the scaling issue. Ca not post links, it seems youtube removes my posts if I do.

@@nrdkraft Also, samuel kruger is the one to look at for shading the clouds, I do it a little different than he does though, but the principles are pretty much the same. He has a download vdb that is nice to use...that one is simulated in Houdini. Break your crayons also have a good showcase of shading clouds in blender, based on what Samuel Kruger have describe, and is also using a houdini simulation. Houdini apprentice you can use for hobby or personal work, and simulate and export vDB and render as Samuel and Break your crayons are doing, though for pro work or generating income, you would need to get the license.

@@PrometheusPhamarus Thanks for the tips! I’ll look those up when I can make the opportunity develop my own various clouds workflow. Certainly alot of expertise out there far beyond the potentially useless tip in my video

Loved the thumbnail. Could have used a beach scene with a bully. I went on a mission a while back and ended up liking best a mesh with layered modifiers essentially. The clouds looked like they hit the gym. Ripped. The project was more stylized though. From the research I ended up with a mega variety cloud museum asset library. From 2d up to CPU crushing simulations. Super fun. This channel is new to me. I like it.

I’m hoping it will be that easy soon. But in the version of Blender I am currently using, Integer isn’t one of the options available when creating a new group input. So for now we have to make due with a certain work-around

@@nrdkraft Isn’t this what you’re looking for: i.stack.imgur.com/brfCL.png ?

Yes precisely. If I am correct however, it looks like that screenshot is looking at the inputs of a group in Geometry Nodes. Geometry nodes indeed already supports easily adding an integer input. Not so for Shader Nodes yet tho. But maybe soon!

@@nrdkraft Not sure if it's a 4.2 update, but it's definitely possible to do with shader nodes now. Just grouped a noise texture, put scale into the group input as an example - Group Socket -> Scale -> Type -> Integer. Works like a charm.

@@MikeSierraFox You are right! I believe it is an update that came with 4.2. Also available is Boolean which shows up as a check box! That ought to be really handy for Group nodes!

Aw thank you I appreciate that! I try to make things understandable!

I hope you are too! I’m going to aim for this Friday evening (U.S.)

Oh very interesting! I’ll have to check that in 4.0! [checks] Oh you’re right! It looks like they fixed this for us since I recorded this, thanks for alerting me to this!

Yup, tried this in blender 4.1 and the subtract 1 from the resolution and divide it by the original number seems to be unnecessary now

@@nrdkraft Thank you for this solid tutorial. I came across the video when I was getting into blender successfully this year but the shorthand references to hotkeys and mode changes were too fast for me initially. Now that I've had time to understand a lot of the modes and standard hotkeys, this was a very digestible tutorial and especially was impressive to see the visual explanation of the coordinate space at the beginning.

@@snapxynith Awesome! I’m glad I could be helpful! And welcome to the Blender community! I hope you enjoy being a part of it☺️

You bet! I’ll be showing how to put a bit more into this node in the livestream tentatively this Friday☺️

@@nrdkraft That's awesome. :D I hope to catch it.

@@ashasekayi I hope you do too!😁

Yay! I hope it comes in handy😁 Thanks man!