can you please help me ! i have downloaded blender , started following the donut series to learn it , cleared all the steps and when geometry node came into play I can to know that there is no option for geometry nodes in my blender's drop down menu . Now I am unable to continue my learning . please help me.
@@vinayaksen4896 It should be there if you clicked the [General] at the home screen but if it's not there. Click the *+* icon (it should be called "add workspace") then click [General] and then [geometry nodes] note: the *+* should be located at the top, where there is tab like Layout, Modeling, Sculpting, etc...
@@vinayaksen4896 If your pc is small, then at the top where stuff like layout, texture paint, and Sculpting are there, then you might have to scroll on that to see it. Then click on geometry nodes.
@@vinayaksen4896try using the scroll wheel in the part where "Layout, Modelling, Sculpting" and all those stuff are. Geometry nodes are almost at the end of the list
I have been working on this project for a month now. Restarted the actual donut 6 times. Restarted the icing 3 times. Restarted the sprinkles 4 times. Finally just finished part 6! If youre reading this dont give up! You will finish the donut! One step at a time. Thank you Blender Guru!!!!
I'm stucked at he Named Attribute poitn : the Density Factor don't fu..ng want to show up, as well as the Sprinkle Density name under "Name"......can't figure why.....very disapointing
Anyone struggling with slow zoom and panning after shrinking the Donut, it's a pretty easy fix. Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Navigation, then under auto check Depth. This should make your actions scale properly to your zoom and make navigation feel the same as with the bigger donut.
@@unabhangigenachrichtensh7296 If you knew how in Ukraine we manage to close fundraisers for vehicles and drones for the military with such small contributions, you wouldn't say such things.
If you happen to be following this tutorial, and you're at about 5:30, and you're wondering why the ball doesn't appear for you the same way it does for him, as well as why the menu is different... It's because your mouse cursor need to be in the viewport segment, NOT in the geometry nodes segment. I didn't even realize it could matter, but had to rewatch a couple times to figure it out
can you please help me ! i have downloaded blender , started following the donut series to learn it , cleared all the steps and when geometry node came into play I can to know that there is no option for geometry nodes in my blender's drop down menu . Now I am unable to continue my learning . please help me.
@@vinayaksen4896 You might have solved this already but if you haven`t, Just scroll in the workspace by dragging it by the middle mouse button, if isn't there click on the plus sign>General>Geometry Nodes
16:48 was a bit unclear, but our Guru selected the "Group Input" node, then hit "N" on the keyboard, and double clicked on the "Density Max" label to change it's name.
7:29 if the sprinkles are really big for you even though you did the same exact thing, you need to connect the scale output of the object info into the scale input of the instance on points
19:38 If the scaling doesn't seem to be working, press N to bring up the menu on the right of the screen, go to Tool > Options > Transform and untick everything next to Affect Only.
Everything was deselected but when i scale down my donut i can't zoom into it, i don't know why but even it's in the same scale as in the video it might becoming too small
@@eva_yldrm Press the period/dot key on your numpad (it has to be the one on the numpad) when the object is selected to zoom right into it. You can also try holding shift + ctrl when zooming in on objects if it's refusing to zoom properly. There's something about the way Blender zooms where it can occasionally get confused about the scale and that usually helps.
Any ideas why my geometry nodes themselves are huge? I haven't applied an object to them yet and my particle diamond shapes are about 20x bigger than the video. Have already applied scale to everything.
Yesterday I didn’t even know how to open blender, and here I am today looking at the most delicious donut ever! I really appreciate that you explain why something is done the way it is! That’s the key for me to understand the program and actually learn.
Folks, if you're having issues with your icing "exploding" after the apply scale at 20:25, go back to your Solidify modifier on the icing and reduce its thickness value. I chose 0.0003m for my approx 0.125m (X/Y dimensions) donut.
Icing spheres haven't scaled down correctly for some reason and I cannot seem to find the solidify modifier you are mentioning. edit: If anyone has very large sprinkles after scaling down, go to geometry nods then on the lower part of the screen w/ the node tables, find "instance on points" and under scale set xyz to 0.1 after that you can set a higher density for sprinkles
If your sprinkles look SO SO SO SO much smaller, after applying scale, make sure to also apply scale on the icing, you might have only applied it on the donut.
GEOMETRY NODES - at 7:41 I actually had to attach the "Object Info" scale output to the "Instance on Points" scale input for this to work properly. Otherwise, I got HUGE spheres all over my donut. My first thought was to click "relative" in the "Object Info" node and that fixed the scaling issue but all of the sprinkle spheres were offset in a bad position.
@@shawnthomas2995 hey bro i also face that phase so ,i overcome by just delete the sphere and recreate sphere for sprinkles and also delete the instance on points and object info node and recreate with and that solve my problem i hope you will already fix that problem , but at future if you stuck as the same situation you can apply my method . hope this will help your.
Wow! I had to slow the speed of the video down in a few parts to catch all of the key strokes. The sizing of the donut changed my camera view. I will be patient through the next few videos and see if we cover the positioning of the light and camera. Lots of info in this video! I am still with you Blender Guru!
One small feedback item I have is that it would be helpful for you to verbalize some quick movements you do. I know it shows most of your actions on the bottom of the screen but if you are quickly using hotkeys to swap views, or change modes, or go full screen, or back to geometry nodes its helpful to tell us what you are clicking as a reminder. Example: I had to click back a few times at 16:52 I had to watch a few times to see how you brought up the option to name the input. Thanks for the great course just trying to put in my 2 cents as a beginner designer following along!
Just in case you didn't notice - every button he presses is displayed on the screen, so if you're confused about how something was done, look there. It also helps when there's a small error, like when he says he pressed Ctrl+Tab to go full screen at 9:23, but the keys displayed are the correct Ctrl+Space.
Yes, I'm struggling to figure out how to bring back the Geometry Nodes second window from the full screen. When I click Geometry Nodes, nothing happens now. I don't get any new screen below. I know it is something simple, I just can't find it, even with googling forums.
"I could be building a car in the future and It needs sprinkles, and I can just drop this on" incredible. Innovative. can't wait to sprinkle everything
if anyone has trouble zooming in at 6:00 "You can try going to Edit, then Preferences, then Navigation, then Orbit and Pan, and clicking Depth in the Auto Options section."-ai. This fixed my issue. Good luck and keep going! You got this :)
I feel like I began my 3D modeling journey at a renaissance of 3D modeling in Blender, because man, using Blender isn't difficult at all, but quite intimidating before I began, and learning of what is now possible as to previous versions, has me quite hyped, and thankful for all of you who put time and effort into making this software an incredible tool to create and make art. Thank you!
I have never touched 3D software before and the same little old me has currently a donut with sprinkles on top.. just awesome! 🤩👍 Can't wait to learn more, thank you so much Andrew!
I feel so excited every morning to wake up to a new episode and continue to edit my yesterday’s donut where I left off. Also feels like we’re part of future history by watching these one by one as they get released 😂❤
Pro-tip that saved me on 16:48, turn on captions. It shows you what button he is pressing during the tutorial. He presses 'N' to pull up that menu for editing the the property name for "Sprinkle Density".
I can't believe I was following the 3.0 tutorials all day (started my donut this morning) and I kept having to go on google for tips as the versions have some different settings... and I'm at the last step of my donut... and NOW I see there is a new series uploaded yesterday 🤣🤣😭 I'm gonna finish this donut and start again!
how do i proceed at 12:33 if Named Attribute doesn't appear when I drag out from Density Factor? I have started the process over from the beginning of this video and I get the same result every time. I looked on google how to access the Name Attribute node but it just tells me to type it in the search and it will show up. Any tips or tricks would be great! Thank you! **EDIT: I realized I was using Blender 3.2. If you are having this same issue make sure you are using Blender 4.0 and Named Attribute pops up right away when you type it in the search
I'm 48 years old with a history in CAD and 3DSMAX - (haven't touched either for 20 years). Can't thank you enough for reigniting my passion for 3D using Blender. Thank you sir.
I'm in the same exact situation! I'm 42. learned 3DS Max exactly 20 years ago but haven't touched it since. Now I'm trying my best to learn as much as I can with the hope to one day create an animation reel for employment(I'm desperate for a career change). I have a long way to go but these videos are really giving me that motivation that I need!
i finally collected enough natural world energy to go through the tutorial.. NOW IM AT PART 6 I congratulate myself ... thank you good sir for this nice tutorial so far.
Am I the only one lost at this point? Every single step it doesn't quite fit well but I wont give up! I think he's making movements that he doesn't explain like unconsciously assuming that we should know it already but I love this guy anyways!!
If anyone is struggling with oversized sprinkles at 7:39, you have two solutions: 1: In the "Instances on Points" node, you can use the "scale" option to make them much smaller (play around with the values until you find what you like!). 2: In the "Object Info" (OI) node, you can attach the "Scale" node for OI into the "Instances on Point" scale node.
side note for anyone maybe thinking about using the multiple doughnut idea... its a good idea to also link the "seed" value to the Group output node. although the amount of sprinkles changes, changing the orientation of the sprinkles does just as much, if not more to make em look random. (with the seed value just radomizing what random you get in that specific instance)
If you have an issue with zooming in and moving around being really slow or just stop after you shrink everything to real world size, go to edit -> preferences -> navigation and then check depth in the section that says auto
A really useful information when working with Geometry Nodes is that you can: 1. Open a new window and select the Text Editor 2. Create a new Text 3. Add a "frame" to your Geometry Nodes 4. Press "N" and click "Node" on the right side of your Geometry Nodes window 5. Click on "Text: " and select the Text you have just created in the Text Editor Congrats! You can now write comments in your Geometry Nodes window. It is a really useful feature, especially when learning Blender, so you dont get confused with all your nodes. Just write down what all your nodes are there for. Bonus: 6. You can drag your nodes into the frame to make it more clear what comment is for what node. 7. Above the "Text: " button is a little checkmark, deselect that so you can freely adjust the size of your frame. 8. Color your frames for an even clearer sorting.
I'm definitely saving this video for later on, there's so many gems in this one that I'll for sure be coming back to later on. Keep up the great work! You're inspiring so many future animators/creatives!
at 12:25, when I first attempted to do the named attribute node, I made the node after renaming the vertex group but when I clicked the box to bring up the pop up menu, nothing appeared in the menu, it was completely blank. I however undid the last few steps and reattempted the steps from the application of the weight painting to this step and it worked. I would like to know if anyone ever came across this issue before and what was the potential mistake being made?
If you deleted the original sprinkle like I did and cant set shade smooth to them all, in the geometry nodes menu click shift+a --> mesh --> write --> set shade smooth and add this table right between 'instances on points' and 'join geometry' line
thank you!!! I didn't even realize I maybe did delete the original sprinkle? I've had a bit of trouble with this video so I've been doing a lot of undoing and redoing. Nonetheless, this worked! And I learned something new.
Just started on my donut! I have so many advanced ideas I would love to come alive one day. Thank you for making such a well explained, easy to understand guide. Blender is very intimidating but you make it less daunting.
13:32 Not negative, just less, although if you paint with a lower strength on an area with a bigger strength then it is negative, because it'll reduce the particles in that area
With spherical sprinkles it's very easy to do an exactly correct minimum distance if you do not want any overlap, which is just twice the radius of your spheres, so if you use a radius of 0.01 for the sphere, just use a distance of 0.02 for the min distance. Of course once you do the elongated sprinkles, that's no longer going to be true
Hi there, been following along really well except for 15:20. How are you duplicating the donut without also selecting the plane? Also I cant get the modifier to show on the right side to change the amount of sprinkles on one donut and not the other
@@TheLizardoushi, so I did as you said and it seemed to have worked but the only thing that I see when I moved the cursor is the x/y/z scale and not the donut itself. how can I fix this?
I was going crazy because my sprinkles were not the same as my sphere. They were like glitter dots and wouldn't mirror the changes I made on the sphere at all. I tried everything, tried again and again. The Discord group just seemed to have people ridiculing each other for asking questions, so I switched it off and gave up. Just opened it up again after a week and it works! If in doubt, switch it off and switch it on again. Sometime It works!
Lol Andrew, just wanted to let you know on 18:50 when you scaled the donut, the reason it was scaling incorrectly was because you had your pivot point set to median point (it takes the average origins and scale their locations). Change your pivot point right above your view port next to global. You can use the 3d curse pivot or the active element, which acts like a child parent relationship. I know you knew this. Probably just forgot.
Thank you for the great tutorial! I used the exactly same geometry nodes to generate Christmas ornaments on digital trees and was really happy about the result!😊
It's so awesome that this new donut tutorial seems simpler and uncomplicated than the previous one, yet there's a lot of new things being discussed and clarified.
I must say this is a great tutorial. I've tried every time you've made a new one of these but have never finished it. This is as far as I've ever gotten and I'm honestly really pumped. I know that so many people in the comments are saying stuff like this but I genuinely hope I finish it this time around. Blender is something I've wanted to learn for the better part of a decade but somehow never could. Heres hoping I stick with it this time. Thanks for your help. :)
on 20:28 if your dougnut sprinkle has fly up or stand outside the dougnut , you should move the orgin of your main sprinkle oject to the center of main sprinkle oject and it will stand normal .
I had my donut whole the time in an appropriate size and thus had huge troubles following the sprinkles. This actually forced me to play a bit around in order to still get a desired result. Thumbs up!
I made my donut around .09m in diameter (more like a bundt cake than a donut) and the sprinkles are an issue, even though they're .002m. I noticed when I followed his instructions for distribution points on face and increased the density, there were still no points visible. Everytime I try one of his tutorials, something cursed happens that hardly anyone else, or no one else is experiencing and I don't know how to fix it. Edit: He does the 4.0 tutorial different than the previous ones. Didnt think he would scale it down later in the tutorial. Guess I should start over and actually follow instructions😅
If your stuck with named attribute and can`t find it (like me). In point distribute there is a density factor in it you need to put sprinkel density. 😁
I dont get this moment at 14:40 with that short cut number pad peroiod key - I cant mark the sprinkles alone only the whole thing.. What am I doing wrong or how is the short cut exatly? And I do not have that selcet mode icon in that quick menu - how can I bring that in?
At 22:01 - I've changed the density and distance, but no sprinkle showed up - not even three! The "output Attributes" and "internal dependencies" were replaced by "bake" for some reason. how do I find them back?
At 20:30 when I try to apply scale to my object, instead of making most of my sprinkles disappear, it actually made them larger. Can anyone explain to me why this happened?
When in the Geometry Nodes, the Node called "Instance on Points" has "Scale: X, Y, Z" values. I changed mine to 0.1 because they were to big. Go the other way if they're to large :)
As a person learning godot, and now using Unity and C#, it's super cool to see geometetry nodes which, in an abstracted sense, is kinda like programming!!
12:20 Can't figure out what I've done wrong. In name atribute the "sprinkle density" I name my Vertex group WILL NOT SHOW UP. There's Point, Face Corner, Edge, and Face, but no vertex group I make will appear. No idea what I did wrong.
@@ayoubbanneni3206i fixed mine. What i did was press the minus button to get rid of the vertex groups name. I added a new group while in weight paint mode naming it sprinkle density. I tried it again and it worked
These are good and I really appreciate the free content! All I would ask is for teachers of a field where someone is a complete newbie, just do exactly what will get to a point of success. The more words used, the more chance of confusion. The more chance of confusion, the more people will slowly drift away. The whole sprinkle editing after it was already applied was where I completely tuned out and ended up completely lost.
For the people wondering why sprinkle density isnt showing as your factor it is because you have to change it manually but it doesnt really change anything! ;)
IF YOU SELECT YOUR ICING AND GO BACK TO EDIT MODE IN THE TOP LEFT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO HIT ALT+H AND IT WILL UNHIDE THE HIDDEN SECTION. Haha caps lock. @@laoludan2000
I had the exact same problem as you, and what made it work for me was to simply save the project, close the program, and open it back up again. Hopefully this fixes it!
For these ones, who don't have time to watch a whole video: 0:31 - Create new node 1:50 - Explaining in details what's nodes do 3:28 - Adding new node 4:10 - Adding another node 5:10 - Adding object that will be as sprinkles for our donut 6:28 - Dragging sphere to node 7:10 - Geometry to instances 9:18 - Configuration of sprinkles 9:57- Weight painting 11:27 - Data 12:13 - Named Attribute 13:10 - Adding sprinkles (Hold Ctrl to negative painting 14:35 - Hotkey numpad [ . ] or [ ` ] - 15:13 - Problems with duplicating 16:50 - Hotkey N to expose panel - 19:20 - Hotkey Ctrl then scaling (or just type it) - 20:27 - Applying global scale (Ctrl + A) - 22:58 - Math calculation node
Really easy to follow, maybe spent two hours on this Donut so far, feels overwhelming but I know it gets easier at some point. My dreams of creating my own video game inch closer
I seemed to be tracking well until I reached 3:40 to start my geometry nodes, and the little dots representing the particles won’t show up for me. Anyone know how to fix this? 😭
It seems there are two ways to add an UV Sphere, but only one which actually makes sense and works. The way he shows is when being in Object Mode and, this is important, have the UPPER part of the window active (e.g. when you just click on the Donut or the plane). This way you get the same menu as shown in the video and the UV Sphere will be added into the "Scene collection" where you also have the Donut, icing, light, camera, and plane. When I tried it, the bottom part of the window (the one with the nodes) was active, and it shows a slightly different menu where the UV Sphere is located at "Mesh - Primitives - UV Sphere". Someone would say: Who cares? Must be same, no? No. This way the UV Sphere will be added directly as a NODE but NOT as an OBJECT, like in the video. For some reason, this has some effect, as later on I cant smooth the sprinkles. This is completely counterintuitive, as everything happens in the node section, except this particular action.
17:33 one thing I would like to add, make sure you scale your donut before the geometry node step I know it sounds weird but I got stuck following the steps and then the sphere got disappeared after the scale, so if you encountered something like this make sure to scale it first and then follow the steps✌🏽✌🏽
21:39 When I went to adjust sprinkle density, there is literally no display for it. I can’t adjust the density, and adding the math doesn’t do anything afterwards.
I followed everything well before and everything worked out, but when I started changing the scale from this point on 20:30 everything changed. Even when I tried to enter all the same numbers as you, my sprinkles looked different. I can no longer get such a dense amount of sprinkles. I will continue with the videos and hope that nothing goes wrong in the end because of the changes. Nevertheless, I want to thank you first for these videos.
@@Beyatchenator maybe you didn't selected the icing when applying the scale, select the icing only and apply scale. Worked for me but for some reason my sprinkles are now bigger :(
10:40 in and cant do the weight painting, icing doesnt turn blue and cant paint weight/heat colors on it. i can paint the weight on it but cant see what im doing because of this. what am i doing wrong?
you can go on layout, do edit mode, select the icing, do alt+h or go on "mesh" (at the bottom of modeling) and go on "show/hide" and do "reveal the hiden"
This series is very good and focused on high quality realistic scenes. I can tell you really mastered this as you know the solution to every special case issue that arises. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, well done.
When I add points using geometry nodes I get one giant point and my icing disappears. I was able to bring back my icing just by following the tutorial but not the sprinkle's size
Had the same issue, just ignore it for a bit. He created the UV sphere 6:32 and used it as a reference. You can just set the small scale and you should be good.
Same issue. I think the issue is probably because we have followed or remembered Blender 3.0 donut tutorials and scaled donut to be in real world scale before reaching this point. Just like @markoburak6549 says, ignore it for a moment and continue watching the video then we should be fine.
It's been almost a week that I found your channel and I'm on my half way of making my 1st donut. I already subcribe your channel, so today I want to comment. Thanks a lot, your channel is a perfect tutorial, easy to understand by telling me what to do step by step as a beginner, not like other channel that don't describe what the used of each thing in blender, and they're so fast for me to see what are they clicking. Thanks also for the Poliigon website that you created free to use for someone who's still stuck at making money to buy a professional software that cost a lot of penny. God bless you sir. 👍🏼
Thanks for another great lesson. This felt a bit more challenging than the last few simply because of the number of nodes used. I like how you demonstrated the versatility of nodes.
Knowledge gained after these tutorials:
80% knowledge about Blender
20% knowledge about how donuts are made and why they look the way they look
can you please help me ! i have downloaded blender , started following the donut series to learn it , cleared all the steps and when geometry node came into play I can to know that there is no option for geometry nodes in my blender's drop down menu . Now I am unable to continue my learning . please help me.
@@vinayaksen4896 It should be there if you clicked the [General] at the home screen but if it's not there. Click the *+* icon (it should be called "add workspace") then click [General] and then [geometry nodes]
note: the *+* should be located at the top, where there is tab like Layout, Modeling, Sculpting, etc...
@@vinayaksen4896 If your pc is small, then at the top where stuff like layout, texture paint, and Sculpting are there, then you might have to scroll on that to see it. Then click on geometry nodes.
top tier comment 😂😂
@@vinayaksen4896try using the scroll wheel in the part where "Layout, Modelling, Sculpting" and all those stuff are. Geometry nodes are almost at the end of the list
I have been working on this project for a month now. Restarted the actual donut 6 times. Restarted the icing 3 times. Restarted the sprinkles 4 times. Finally just finished part 6! If youre reading this dont give up! You will finish the donut! One step at a time. Thank you Blender Guru!!!!
donut give up
I'm stucked at he Named Attribute poitn : the Density Factor don't fu..ng want to show up, as well as the Sprinkle Density name under "Name"......can't figure why.....very disapointing
@@SKYNETSTUDIO press N while selecting the input
Uff I really needed to hear this...😫
i restarted the icing 2 times cause it crashed twice and i forgot to save
Anyone struggling with slow zoom and panning after shrinking the Donut, it's a pretty easy fix.
Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Navigation, then under auto check Depth. This should make your actions scale properly to your zoom and make navigation feel the same as with the bigger donut.
Thank you so much
Thanks, exactly the issue I have had
thanks!!!
thank you very much
OMG, thanks man! I was really struggling :)
Amazing tutorial. Cheers from Poland!
10 Polentaler? Das ist aber mager...
@@unabhangigenachrichtensh7296 If you knew how in Ukraine we manage to close fundraisers for vehicles and drones for the military with such small contributions, you wouldn't say such things.
If you happen to be following this tutorial, and you're at about 5:30, and you're wondering why the ball doesn't appear for you the same way it does for him, as well as why the menu is different... It's because your mouse cursor need to be in the viewport segment, NOT in the geometry nodes segment. I didn't even realize it could matter, but had to rewatch a couple times to figure it out
🙏
Essentially shift A into the upper half of the window where your donut model is, and not in the bottom half where the Geometry nodes information is.
bro you saved me tysm
What’s a viewport segment
@@PappiiJHeemThe part with the preview of your 3d scene
I never saw someone successfully monetize only one object for years in 3D as much as you. Amazing :D
Well, this is not an ordinary 3d object, it's a brand by now. It is popular and recognized by almost every one in 3d industry.
Cus it works. I'm new to 3D. ...6 tutotirls in :) and his tutorials are they best I found. Easy to understand and follow.
If you wanna make some dough, make doughnuts?
can you please help me ! i have downloaded blender , started following the donut series to learn it , cleared all the steps and when geometry node came into play I can to know that there is no option for geometry nodes in my blender's drop down menu . Now I am unable to continue my learning . please help me.
@@vinayaksen4896 You might have solved this already but if you haven`t, Just scroll in the workspace by dragging it by the middle mouse button, if isn't there click on the plus sign>General>Geometry Nodes
I love how he remade this series so many times. And everytime it gets better.
The fact that he keeps it up to date as blender updates is so nice
@@han_463 The man is a legend. Think of all the 3D careers he's kick started!
And faster. I have to redo every section a few times to keep up with what I missed.
that's great but there aren't many detailed videos on his channel, I mean other than this donut series in different versions
16:48 was a bit unclear, but our Guru selected the "Group Input" node, then hit "N" on the keyboard, and double clicked on the "Density Max" label to change it's name.
Yeah, had to google it to find out!
tysm for pointing that out
You can see every keys he pressed at the bottom of the video
Thank you!
Right, it's the properties for the node. Cheers :)
7:29 if the sprinkles are really big for you even though you did the same exact thing, you need to connect the scale output of the object info into the scale input of the instance on points
OML U SAVED ME ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Tysm
Tysmm❤
Thanks!!
Big appreciation. Thought I was smart by connecting a separate value node there. Instead I broke it.
As soon as you said "So" an advert came on saying "So you think you know Wix?" the timing was perfection 💀
After I finish this donut and render it, I'm going to buy a dozen donuts to celebrate
Why buy them, just eat the ones you made in Blender :)
@@Jez1963UKThen he has to make himself in blender and animate himself eating the donuts.😂
@@anzaklaynimationnah, they can just 3D print them.
@@notahotshot But how can you eat 3d printed donuts?
@@anzaklaynimation instead of using plastic in the printer put in the ingredients for the donut
19:38 If the scaling doesn't seem to be working, press N to bring up the menu on the right of the screen, go to Tool > Options > Transform and untick everything next to Affect Only.
Thank you
Thanks
Everything was deselected but when i scale down my donut i can't zoom into it, i don't know why but even it's in the same scale as in the video it might becoming too small
@@eva_yldrm Press the period/dot key on your numpad (it has to be the one on the numpad) when the object is selected to zoom right into it. You can also try holding shift + ctrl when zooming in on objects if it's refusing to zoom properly. There's something about the way Blender zooms where it can occasionally get confused about the scale and that usually helps.
Ah thanks you that help me lot
If anyone else has the issues that your sphere sprinkles are huge, hit CTRL+A on the UV Sphere to apply scale
you are a life saver
same thing as he says at 19:50 ;)
Any ideas why my geometry nodes themselves are huge? I haven't applied an object to them yet and my particle diamond shapes are about 20x bigger than the video. Have already applied scale to everything.
Thanks, I was wondering why the size wasn't changing
Thanks
Yesterday I didn’t even know how to open blender, and here I am today looking at the most delicious donut ever! I really appreciate that you explain why something is done the way it is! That’s the key for me to understand the program and actually learn.
Me too! I barely could use the interface and now I am here! Feels great. Good job! Keep it up!!
Thanks for the "it's just a screen layer, don't get disorientated" really helped me to not freak out
Folks, if you're having issues with your icing "exploding" after the apply scale at 20:25, go back to your Solidify modifier on the icing and reduce its thickness value. I chose 0.0003m for my approx 0.125m (X/Y dimensions) donut.
Thank you!!
I decided to do this because i had this problem but it started to go inside my donut and the original problem still isnt fixed
same@@Swomp-Womp
thanks a lot !!!!!!
Icing spheres haven't scaled down correctly for some reason and I cannot seem to find the solidify modifier you are mentioning.
edit: If anyone has very large sprinkles after scaling down, go to geometry nods then on the lower part of the screen w/ the node tables, find "instance on points" and under scale set xyz to 0.1 after that you can set a higher density for sprinkles
If your sprinkles look SO SO SO SO much smaller, after applying scale, make sure to also apply scale on the icing, you might have only applied it on the donut.
Yes! Thank you very much for pointing it out. The icing were missing the scale indeed!
Thank you so much
my live saver thank you!
The life Saver
THANK YOUU
GEOMETRY NODES - at 7:41 I actually had to attach the "Object Info" scale output to the "Instance on Points" scale input for this to work properly. Otherwise, I got HUGE spheres all over my donut. My first thought was to click "relative" in the "Object Info" node and that fixed the scaling issue but all of the sprinkle spheres were offset in a bad position.
Thank you!
I had the same issue. thanks for the fix!
You saved my day man! Thank you.
I'm so confused just done it n didn't fix it, would be something else on my end?
@@shawnthomas2995 hey bro i also face that phase so ,i overcome by just delete the sphere and recreate sphere for sprinkles and also delete the instance on points and object info node and recreate with and that solve my problem i hope you will already fix that problem , but at future if you stuck as the same situation you can apply my method . hope this will help your.
For smoothing your sprinkles, you need to select the center sprinkle. The first one. 14:42
YOU SAVED ME FROM SO MUCH FRUSTRATION, THANKSS
i still have sprinkles on the side of the icing do u know why
THANK U SOO MUCHH I WAS COMPLETELY LOST , BUT I FINALLY GOT TO SMOOTH OUT THE SPRINKLE AT THE END
Wow! I had to slow the speed of the video down in a few parts to catch all of the key strokes. The sizing of the donut changed my camera view. I will be patient through the next few videos and see if we cover the positioning of the light and camera. Lots of info in this video! I am still with you Blender Guru!
*Note: If your icing part's missing the top vertices when you try Weight Paint, remember to unhide them by 'Alt+H'
life saver
true, i actually forgot this step from some of the previous video
Thank God bro you saved me
You're a god
How do I thumbs up a comment twice?
One small feedback item I have is that it would be helpful for you to verbalize some quick movements you do. I know it shows most of your actions on the bottom of the screen but if you are quickly using hotkeys to swap views, or change modes, or go full screen, or back to geometry nodes its helpful to tell us what you are clicking as a reminder. Example: I had to click back a few times at 16:52 I had to watch a few times to see how you brought up the option to name the input.
Thanks for the great course just trying to put in my 2 cents as a beginner designer following along!
Just in case you didn't notice - every button he presses is displayed on the screen, so if you're confused about how something was done, look there. It also helps when there's a small error, like when he says he pressed Ctrl+Tab to go full screen at 9:23, but the keys displayed are the correct Ctrl+Space.
Yes, I'm struggling to figure out how to bring back the Geometry Nodes second window from the full screen. When I click Geometry Nodes, nothing happens now. I don't get any new screen below. I know it is something simple, I just can't find it, even with googling forums.
@@wilwhimsey Try Crl+Spacebar
Iv spent all day pissed off bc iv been sitting here unable to change it. I gave up on changing the name and just gonna continue on
"I could be building a car in the future and It needs sprinkles, and I can just drop this on" incredible. Innovative. can't wait to sprinkle everything
if anyone has trouble zooming in at 6:00 "You can try going to Edit, then Preferences, then Navigation, then Orbit and Pan, and clicking Depth in the Auto Options section."-ai. This fixed my issue. Good luck and keep going! You got this :)
I feel like I began my 3D modeling journey at a renaissance of 3D modeling in Blender, because man, using Blender isn't difficult at all, but quite intimidating before I began, and learning of what is now possible as to previous versions, has me quite hyped, and thankful for all of you who put time and effort into making this software an incredible tool to create and make art. Thank you!
I have never touched 3D software before and the same little old me has currently a donut with sprinkles on top.. just awesome! 🤩👍 Can't wait to learn more, thank you so much Andrew!
I feel so excited every morning to wake up to a new episode and continue to edit my yesterday’s donut where I left off. Also feels like we’re part of future history by watching these one by one as they get released 😂❤
Pro-tip that saved me on 16:48, turn on captions. It shows you what button he is pressing during the tutorial. He presses 'N' to pull up that menu for editing the the property name for "Sprinkle Density".
I really liked the analogy of the bugs hitting the large and matchbox cars. It helps to visualize what is happening. Thanx.
Is it just me or is he like a superhero to 3D? Thank you for saving us from the complex world of blender.
I can't believe I was following the 3.0 tutorials all day (started my donut this morning) and I kept having to go on google for tips as the versions have some different settings... and I'm at the last step of my donut... and NOW I see there is a new series uploaded yesterday 🤣🤣😭 I'm gonna finish this donut and start again!
Same here, I didn't realize I had the latest Blender (4.0) that was released November 13th
how do i proceed at 12:33 if Named Attribute doesn't appear when I drag out from Density Factor? I have started the process over from the beginning of this video and I get the same result every time. I looked on google how to access the Name Attribute node but it just tells me to type it in the search and it will show up. Any tips or tricks would be great! Thank you! **EDIT: I realized I was using Blender 3.2. If you are having this same issue make sure you are using Blender 4.0 and Named Attribute pops up right away when you type it in the search
Thanks !
Thank you!! I needed this
i am using 4.0 but still its not popping up
I’m using version 4.0 and it doesn’t appear 😪 HELP
@@mahnoorsaleem4328 did you figure it out?!
I'm 48 years old with a history in CAD and 3DSMAX - (haven't touched either for 20 years). Can't thank you enough for reigniting my passion for 3D using Blender. Thank you sir.
I'm in the same exact situation! I'm 42. learned 3DS Max exactly 20 years ago but haven't touched it since. Now I'm trying my best to learn as much as I can with the hope to one day create an animation reel for employment(I'm desperate for a career change). I have a long way to go but these videos are really giving me that motivation that I need!
I love how versatile the nodes are - and how well you can explain something so complicated!
My brain overheating
i finally collected enough natural world energy to go through the tutorial.. NOW IM AT PART 6
I congratulate myself ... thank you good sir for this nice tutorial so far.
Am I the only one lost at this point? Every single step it doesn't quite fit well but I wont give up! I think he's making movements that he doesn't explain like unconsciously assuming that we should know it already but I love this guy anyways!!
The "bugs on the windshield" analogy was such a good way to explain density, it clicked for me immediately. You're an amazing teacher.
If anyone is struggling with oversized sprinkles at 7:39, you have two solutions:
1: In the "Instances on Points" node, you can use the "scale" option to make them much smaller (play around with the values until you find what you like!).
2: In the "Object Info" (OI) node, you can attach the "Scale" node for OI into the "Instances on Point" scale node.
thank you bro
i love you.
you are a saver
i tried every other method still could not figure out why my sprinkles look like tennis balls
side note for anyone maybe thinking about using the multiple doughnut idea...
its a good idea to also link the "seed" value to the Group output node. although the amount of sprinkles changes, changing the orientation of the sprinkles does just as much, if not more to make em look random. (with the seed value just radomizing what random you get in that specific instance)
If you have an issue with zooming in and moving around being really slow or just stop after you shrink everything to real world size, go to edit -> preferences -> navigation and then check depth in the section that says auto
Thanks I was just looking for this!
Thank you for building up the skills to help others learn!
A really useful information when working with Geometry Nodes is that you can:
1. Open a new window and select the Text Editor
2. Create a new Text
3. Add a "frame" to your Geometry Nodes
4. Press "N" and click "Node" on the right side of your Geometry Nodes window
5. Click on "Text: " and select the Text you have just created in the Text Editor
Congrats! You can now write comments in your Geometry Nodes window. It is a really useful feature, especially when learning Blender, so you dont get confused with all your nodes. Just write down what all your nodes are there for.
Bonus:
6. You can drag your nodes into the frame to make it more clear what comment is for what node.
7. Above the "Text: " button is a little checkmark, deselect that so you can freely adjust the size of your frame.
8. Color your frames for an even clearer sorting.
I'm definitely saving this video for later on, there's so many gems in this one that I'll for sure be coming back to later on. Keep up the great work! You're inspiring so many future animators/creatives!
After 5 tutorials, I realized the tutorials have been scheduled to be published at 11PM everyday. So I waited until 11PM tonight for a fresh donut.
1 AM for me!
It’s because he is Australian
2pm for me… 2am when I get to my home state.
3 PM for me
6am for me which is awesome when i wake up
at 12:25, when I first attempted to do the named attribute node, I made the node after renaming the vertex group but when I clicked the box to bring up the pop up menu, nothing appeared in the menu, it was completely blank. I however undid the last few steps and reattempted the steps from the application of the weight painting to this step and it worked. I would like to know if anyone ever came across this issue before and what was the potential mistake being made?
I'm like you and I'm stuck now 😂
your dumb explanation helped me dude thanks
20:56 I really love the way he explains "the bugs that are hittinf the car" for The density in relation of the world example
If you deleted the original sprinkle like I did and cant set shade smooth to them all, in the geometry nodes menu click shift+a --> mesh --> write --> set shade smooth and add this table right between 'instances on points' and 'join geometry' line
Thanks, got exactly this problem
thank you so much worked
Thank you!
thank you!!! I didn't even realize I maybe did delete the original sprinkle? I've had a bit of trouble with this video so I've been doing a lot of undoing and redoing. Nonetheless, this worked! And I learned something new.
Just started on my donut!
I have so many advanced ideas I would love to come alive one day.
Thank you for making such a well explained, easy to understand guide.
Blender is very intimidating but you make it less daunting.
13:32 Not negative, just less, although if you paint with a lower strength on an area with a bigger strength then it is negative, because it'll reduce the particles in that area
With spherical sprinkles it's very easy to do an exactly correct minimum distance if you do not want any overlap, which is just twice the radius of your spheres, so if you use a radius of 0.01 for the sphere, just use a distance of 0.02 for the min distance. Of course once you do the elongated sprinkles, that's no longer going to be true
Hi there, been following along really well except for 15:20. How are you duplicating the donut without also selecting the plane? Also I cant get the modifier to show on the right side to change the amount of sprinkles on one donut and not the other
To duplicate as shown in the video, you need to manually select both the icing and donut object using shift+lmb then duplicate them using shift+d
thanks, was stuck here
@@TheLizardous Thanks!
@@TheLizardoushi, so I did as you said and it seemed to have worked but the only thing that I see when I moved the cursor is the x/y/z scale and not the donut itself. how can I fix this?
To get the sprinkles to show up click the icing where the collection is
I was going crazy because my sprinkles were not the same as my sphere. They were like glitter dots and wouldn't mirror the changes I made on the sphere at all. I tried everything, tried again and again. The Discord group just seemed to have people ridiculing each other for asking questions, so I switched it off and gave up. Just opened it up again after a week and it works! If in doubt, switch it off and switch it on again. Sometime It works!
"It doesn't look very good." THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE EVER SEEN
Time to make a virtual donut. 6 days in a row for this part 6. Thanks a lot.
Lol Andrew, just wanted to let you know on 18:50 when you scaled the donut, the reason it was scaling incorrectly was because you had your pivot point set to median point (it takes the average origins and scale their locations). Change your pivot point right above your view port next to global. You can use the 3d curse pivot or the active element, which acts like a child parent relationship.
I know you knew this. Probably just forgot.
Holy crap, thank you!!! 🎆
thankssssss
tknx
OMG! Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for the great tutorial! I used the exactly same geometry nodes to generate Christmas ornaments on digital trees and was really happy about the result!😊
It's so awesome that this new donut tutorial seems simpler and uncomplicated than the previous one, yet there's a lot of new things being discussed and clarified.
ive done somthing horribly wrong. i turned my icing into a million balls.
Only 4 days with blender and watched 6 videos about it (these 6) and I feel like I know lots of stuff about blender
You're the greatest teacher
i duplicate my donut but the sprinkle was stuck on the other donut can you help me? {part 7}
''Im giving different sprinkle amounts to different donuts, like a mad man. No one can stop me" 🤣
🤣😂
I must say this is a great tutorial. I've tried every time you've made a new one of these but have never finished it. This is as far as I've ever gotten and I'm honestly really pumped. I know that so many people in the comments are saying stuff like this but I genuinely hope I finish it this time around. Blender is something I've wanted to learn for the better part of a decade but somehow never could. Heres hoping I stick with it this time. Thanks for your help. :)
Keep at it. You can do it!
on 20:28 if your dougnut sprinkle has fly up or stand outside the dougnut , you should move the orgin of your main sprinkle oject to the center of main sprinkle oject and it will stand normal .
omg i love you , a was almost 2 hours triying solve the problem xD
If your sprinkles disappear at 7:21 select the sphere layer and scale it up. The sprinkles are still there, they may just be insanely tiny / small.
I had my donut whole the time in an appropriate size and thus had huge troubles following the sprinkles. This actually forced me to play a bit around in order to still get a desired result. Thumbs up!
I made my donut around .09m in diameter (more like a bundt cake than a donut) and the sprinkles are an issue, even though they're .002m. I noticed when I followed his instructions for distribution points on face and increased the density, there were still no points visible. Everytime I try one of his tutorials, something cursed happens that hardly anyone else, or no one else is experiencing and I don't know how to fix it.
Edit: He does the 4.0 tutorial different than the previous ones. Didnt think he would scale it down later in the tutorial. Guess I should start over and actually follow instructions😅
18:50 Alternatively, You can change Transform Pivot point to 3d cursor or active element for scaling all
Thank you so much!
You should do a procedural donut tutorial using Geometry Nodes
Someone already did: th-cam.com/video/kkIDdmIBBlY/w-d-xo.html
Truuuuuue
If your stuck with named attribute and can`t find it (like me). In point distribute there is a density factor in it you need to put sprinkel density. 😁
If the above doesn't work, update ur blender to the latest version and then try again
I dont get this moment at 14:40 with that short cut number pad peroiod key - I cant mark the sprinkles alone only the whole thing.. What am I doing wrong or how is the short cut exatly? And I do not have that selcet mode icon in that quick menu - how can I bring that in?
"The blue value means a value of zero, and the red value is a zero of one" - Our Best Guru, 10:46
hello at 20:32 when i apply the scale all the sprinkles removed so can you help me
At 22:01 - I've changed the density and distance, but no sprinkle showed up - not even three!
The "output Attributes" and "internal dependencies" were replaced by "bake" for some reason. how do I find them back?
At 20:30 when I try to apply scale to my object, instead of making most of my sprinkles disappear, it actually made them larger. Can anyone explain to me why this happened?
For me they are smaller 😂
Same
Have you found a solution?
far me its smaller
When in the Geometry Nodes, the Node called "Instance on Points" has "Scale: X, Y, Z" values. I changed mine to 0.1 because they were to big. Go the other way if they're to large :)
This guy is directly responsible for my ordering donuts the other night because of how delicious the one I'm building looks.
As a person learning godot, and now using Unity and C#, it's super cool to see geometetry nodes which, in an abstracted sense, is kinda like programming!!
12:20 I cant find the "named attribute" when I search for it. Please how do I get it, I am stucked.
PRESS F3 THEN SEARCH NAME ATTRIBUTE
I have the same problem
9:24 he said control tab but its control space just so you dont get confused
Ty
12:20 Can't figure out what I've done wrong. In name atribute the "sprinkle density" I name my Vertex group WILL NOT SHOW UP.
There's Point, Face Corner, Edge, and Face, but no vertex group I make will appear. No idea what I did wrong.
Same
same
@@ayoubbanneni3206i fixed mine. What i did was press the minus button to get rid of the vertex groups name. I added a new group while in weight paint mode naming it sprinkle density. I tried it again and it worked
These are good and I really appreciate the free content! All I would ask is for teachers of a field where someone is a complete newbie, just do exactly what will get to a point of success. The more words used, the more chance of confusion. The more chance of confusion, the more people will slowly drift away. The whole sprinkle editing after it was already applied was where I completely tuned out and ended up completely lost.
For the people wondering why sprinkle density isnt showing as your factor it is because you have to change it manually but it doesnt really change anything! ;)
10:06 when i press weight paint, my icing is not completely blue there's a unselected/no color round area please help
as same as you .have you resolved it now？
IF YOU SELECT YOUR ICING AND GO BACK TO EDIT MODE IN THE TOP LEFT YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO HIT ALT+H AND IT WILL UNHIDE THE HIDDEN SECTION. Haha caps lock.
@@laoludan2000
@jyitz look at my reply above.
Press alt h if you’re still on it
@@AARIV I love you
it's end of my first day in blender. i managed to came this far! every time someone liked this comment i will go back and practise 10 min per like :D
For some reason "named input" at 12:17 doesn't show up for me no matter how much I try?
Same here
I had the exact same problem as you, and what made it work for me was to simply save the project, close the program, and open it back up again. Hopefully this fixes it!
For these ones, who don't have time to watch a whole video:
0:31 - Create new node
1:50 - Explaining in details what's nodes do
3:28 - Adding new node
4:10 - Adding another node
5:10 - Adding object that will be as sprinkles for our donut
6:28 - Dragging sphere to node
7:10 - Geometry to instances
9:18 - Configuration of sprinkles
9:57- Weight painting
11:27 - Data
12:13 - Named Attribute
13:10 - Adding sprinkles (Hold Ctrl to negative painting
14:35 - Hotkey numpad [ . ] or [ ` ] -
15:13 - Problems with duplicating
16:50 - Hotkey N to expose panel -
19:20 - Hotkey Ctrl then scaling (or just type it) -
20:27 - Applying global scale (Ctrl + A) -
22:58 - Math calculation node
Really easy to follow, maybe spent two hours on this Donut so far, feels overwhelming but I know it gets easier at some point. My dreams of creating my own video game inch closer
Make sure you have 'front faces only' enabled on your weight paint brush otherwise you will still end up with sprinkles under the icing.
Was looking for that. It was off by default, so I couldn't figure out what's the deal with weight paining if it paints on the other side as well XD
I seemed to be tracking well until I reached 3:40 to start my geometry nodes, and the little dots representing the particles won’t show up for me. Anyone know how to fix this? 😭
samee
It seems there are two ways to add an UV Sphere, but only one which actually makes sense and works.
The way he shows is when being in Object Mode and, this is important, have the UPPER part of the window active (e.g. when you just click on the Donut or the plane). This way you get the same menu as shown in the video and the UV Sphere will be added into the "Scene collection" where you also have the Donut, icing, light, camera, and plane.
When I tried it, the bottom part of the window (the one with the nodes) was active, and it shows a slightly different menu where the UV Sphere is located at "Mesh - Primitives - UV Sphere". Someone would say: Who cares? Must be same, no? No.
This way the UV Sphere will be added directly as a NODE but NOT as an OBJECT, like in the video. For some reason, this has some effect, as later on I cant smooth the sprinkles.
This is completely counterintuitive, as everything happens in the node section, except this particular action.
what did you do to make the sprinkle smooth then?
17:33 one thing I would like to add, make sure you scale your donut before the geometry node step I know it sounds weird but I got stuck following the steps and then the sphere got disappeared after the scale, so if you encountered something like this make sure to scale it first and then follow the steps✌🏽✌🏽
21:39
When I went to adjust sprinkle density, there is literally no display for it. I can’t adjust the density, and adding the math doesn’t do anything afterwards.
I knew I could not remember all of the shortcuts and utilities so I wrote most of them down. It definitely helps. Great video like always.
i wrote most of them down step by step 😅😅😅😅
He has cheat sheet
I followed everything well before and everything worked out, but when I started changing the scale from this point on 20:30 everything changed. Even when I tried to enter all the same numbers as you, my sprinkles looked different. I can no longer get such a dense amount of sprinkles. I will continue with the videos and hope that nothing goes wrong in the end because of the changes. Nevertheless, I want to thank you first for these videos.
Did you find a solution? I have 3 sprinkles. No one is going to want my donut :D
@@Beyatchenator maybe you didn't selected the icing when applying the scale, select the icing only and apply scale. Worked for me but for some reason my sprinkles are now bigger :(
10:40 in and cant do the weight painting, icing doesnt turn blue and cant paint weight/heat colors on it. i can paint the weight on it but cant see what im doing because of this. what am i doing wrong?
did you fix this? i'm stuck too
@@Wafflehouse6969 Hiya, no i never fixed this. Ran into another similar problem in another tutorial. So gave up on Blender for now
Same thing
you can go on layout, do edit mode, select the icing, do alt+h or go on "mesh" (at the bottom of modeling) and go on "show/hide" and do "reveal the hiden"
This series is very good and focused on high quality realistic scenes. I can tell you really mastered this as you know the solution to every special case issue that arises.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, well done.
I struggled a bit with part 5, but here I am! I'm really enjoying these tutorials and want to make it to the end, thanks for making them!
I ACCIDENTALY TURNED MY DENSITY OF SPRINKLES TO 5 BILLION IT IS FROZEN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME
Your computer survived?
nope it’s a sun now
Idk if I laugh or if I cry
May be too late but File > Recover???? 😅 best of luck friend
IM SO SORRY FOR LAUGHING 😭😭😭
17:40 my donut was 12 meters
Imagine it was a real donut it could save you from buying donuts a long time (if ur American that’s like 472 inches)
When I add points using geometry nodes I get one giant point and my icing disappears. I was able to bring back my icing just by following the tutorial but not the sprinkle's size
same problem here. I only get giant points but not small ones, thought it was the scale but no. IDK why this is happening
Had the same issue, just ignore it for a bit. He created the UV sphere 6:32 and used it as a reference. You can just set the small scale and you should be good.
Same issue. I think the issue is probably because we have followed or remembered Blender 3.0 donut tutorials and scaled donut to be in real world scale before reaching this point. Just like @markoburak6549 says, ignore it for a moment and continue watching the video then we should be fine.
It's been almost a week that I found your channel and I'm on my half way of making my 1st donut. I already subcribe your channel, so today I want to comment. Thanks a lot, your channel is a perfect tutorial, easy to understand by telling me what to do step by step as a beginner, not like other channel that don't describe what the used of each thing in blender, and they're so fast for me to see what are they clicking. Thanks also for the Poliigon website that you created free to use for someone who's still stuck at making money to buy a professional software that cost a lot of penny. God bless you sir. 👍🏼
Thanks for another great lesson. This felt a bit more challenging than the last few simply because of the number of nodes used. I like how you demonstrated the versatility of nodes.