When I was connecting nodes, the panel display was different from yours. I found that adding nodes by linking can be the same as you. Very useful, thank you for sharing.
if anyone is having trouble with the lightning becoming a straight cylinder when you set the vertex groups to focus, make sure they are inverted AND go into edit mode, select the bottom vertex, and go into the object data tab, select the focus and hit apply.
Cool video, thank you. You have gained my sub for 2 reasons. 1) you use the correct term vertex to refer to a single vertex. 2) The obviously cool Spinal Tap reference
Superb Joey. The only complaint is your audio. I think a lavalier mic would improve your sound greatly. Also, love the Spinal Tap references! I love Big Bottoms!
1-Select the Root Vertex 2-Hook to New Object 3-Select the vertex group it created 4-Weight-Paint 4-Profit- now you have a procural end point you can move anywhere and it deform perfectly.
For me, in Jan 2022, i had to enable Proportinal editing, and then from there hit the drop down menu for it and check "Connected only" otherwise it was just changing the width of the whole bolt all at once
Dude you are so epic. I know I found this super late but like still, the way you explain how to do everything, how and why it works is really cool! I really appreciate it because this has actually taught me more about blender. Additionally, you could've just shown us the way to do the one lightning bolt and keep the bridging one just on your gumroad to sell, but no, you didn't you showed us how to do it and why it works, and that's what I like about you.
Him: _enters __#frame__ into the position property_ Fascination? Immense! _appends /50 nonchalantly_ Mind? Absolutely-hecking-Blown! Hote- *gets killed before he can finish this terrible joke*
This is great! Super helpful and inspiring. I want to adopt this method to animate a river meander/erosion cycle. If you felt like making a tutorial about animating rivers, that would be amazing. But no pressure. Thanks for the great content! You're a wizard.
Okay, so everything was fine until I went to change the vertex group under the displacement modifiers to "focus". Not only did the tip not match up with the origin point, but the whole like butt/thicker end of the bolt straightened out so only the first vertex or two were wavy/wiggly. Does that make sense? I have no idea how to fix it.
@@JoeyCarlino I'll try these when I can sit down at the computer again! Thank you so much! So far everything else is absolutely perfect and I learned a lot from this tutorial!
this is the best lightning tutorial ive seen. Thank you!!! Is there a way to use vertex parents to be able to control where the lightning originates from and where it hits? like lightning coming from one point and striking another? Thanks!
Hello! I'm having a problem Exporting the PNG sequence, as my goal is to take my bolt and composite it onto some real footage. Problem is, Rendering the sequence with a transparent background (which I kinda need for compositing), makes the emission / bloom disappear. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks
Thats a tough one. You might have better luck keeping the bloom if you export it with a black background and then add it on top of your other footage. Add might not be the best blending mode, but it would keep the bloom.
@@JoeyCarlino Well, it sort of works! As far as slapping the sequence onto regular footage, blending it on using add does keep the bolt and bloom. I don't know how different it would be if I could have rendered it out normally (with transparent background) or if it's the same. After hours of scouring for a solution last night, what I can gather is that Eevee doesn't really support emissions like that, and getting it to work is a pain. I would've happily used cycles but It didn't seem to work either. Oh well, the search continues but at least I have this Add blend in the meantime. Thanks!
This is a great tutorial so far but I am struggling with the part at 4 minutes where you use ctrl+A with proportional editing on sharp, when I select a single vertex it still changes everything and not proportionally, so setting the first vertex to 0 makes everything 0 and trying to tune it controlling the strength affects all of them equally not the way seen in the video, is there a setting I perhaps missed?
@@JoeyCarlino Oh I finally figured it out, did the tutorial 3 times and on the third try I selected 'Connected only' for the proportional editing and it works as intended now, sorry for the hassle
14:18.....my top and bottom vertex does not stay in place....so when i move middle vertex the whole line moves......can u please help? i did exactly the way u did it....with like the proportional editing n smooth n connected only....i did the exact same thing
Make sure the top and bottom are selected, select the vertex groups and add them, then in the displacement modifiers (all 3) select the vertex group and click the little arrow to invert them.
If you're talking about proportional editing, use the scroll wheel to make the area of influence lower, otherwise, it'll move everything instead of just a few points.
NEW lightning video with geometry nodes here:
th-cam.com/video/r_J8i1eChBs/w-d-xo.html
Spent so long looking for lightning tutorials until I finally found yours, easily the best! Great work, subbed!
This is absolutely beautiful really well done
This is really true, i've seen people do 2h videos for much worse lighting 10/10
If you cant use ctrl+shift+left mouse at 7:26 , you need to enable addon "node wrangler"
u r a life saver man....thank u so much
thank you ☺️
just the best tutorial to make lightning bolts ...awesome + subscribed ! wohoo ! i am thor !!!
When I was connecting nodes, the panel display was different from yours. I found that adding nodes by linking can be the same as you. Very useful, thank you for sharing.
Used this to make some tesla coil arms
Thank you so much for this incredible tutorial
Pretty nice tutorial. Easy to understand and to follow along AND it works! Thanks!
I came here to learn about lighting. End up learning about a lot of really important awesome things. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
Wow, what an awesome tutorial. This is beautiful. Thank you so much!!
if anyone is having trouble with the lightning becoming a straight cylinder when you set the vertex groups to focus, make sure they are inverted AND go into edit mode, select the bottom vertex, and go into the object data tab, select the focus and hit apply.
thanks!!
gj
The myth the legend, the one making sure the tutorial still holds up.
Really good tutorial!
amazing tutorial man
Cool video, thank you. You have gained my sub for 2 reasons.
1) you use the correct term vertex to refer to a single vertex.
2) The obviously cool Spinal Tap reference
Superb Joey. The only complaint is your audio. I think a lavalier mic would improve your sound greatly.
Also, love the Spinal Tap references! I love Big Bottoms!
This is sooooo cool. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much
Thank you very sharing this knowledge with us :D
Cheers man I'm using this for a channel intro and it'll help big boy time
Good Job!
Thank you : )
Well done!
New to your channel
Making Moonshine lightning Next
Excellent video
With your tutorial I finally made these damn lightning bolts... Man, you deserve more follorwers ;-)
1-Select the Root Vertex
2-Hook to New Object
3-Select the vertex group it created
4-Weight-Paint
4-Profit- now you have a procural end point you can move anywhere and it deform perfectly.
Good work. This is the best looking and controllable lightning tutorial I have yet seen.
Excellent! I'm glad I subbed now. I'm expecting more cool stuff!
For me, in Jan 2022, i had to enable Proportinal editing, and then from there hit the drop down menu for it and check "Connected only"
otherwise it was just changing the width of the whole bolt all at once
thank u so much for sharing!
it's been said, but yes, you are a Wizard!
Great tutorial, thank you!!
Dude you are so epic. I know I found this super late but like still, the way you explain how to do everything, how and why it works is really cool! I really appreciate it because this has actually taught me more about blender. Additionally, you could've just shown us the way to do the one lightning bolt and keep the bridging one just on your gumroad to sell, but no, you didn't you showed us how to do it and why it works, and that's what I like about you.
Beautiful #cgelectricity . Thank you for showing your workflow. #blender
Subbed
Him: _enters __#frame__ into the position property_
Fascination? Immense!
_appends /50 nonchalantly_
Mind? Absolutely-hecking-Blown!
Hote- *gets killed before he can finish this terrible joke*
WONDERFULL!
This is great! Super helpful and inspiring. I want to adopt this method to animate a river meander/erosion cycle. If you felt like making a tutorial about animating rivers, that would be amazing. But no pressure. Thanks for the great content! You're a wizard.
Thanks Henry!
Okay, so everything was fine until I went to change the vertex group under the displacement modifiers to "focus". Not only did the tip not match up with the origin point, but the whole like butt/thicker end of the bolt straightened out so only the first vertex or two were wavy/wiggly. Does that make sense? I have no idea how to fix it.
It's hard to tell by your comment, but make sure the vertex group has the right name, you might need more vertices too, if you only have a few.
Or maybe you need to invert the vertex group. There should be a little arrow button next to it on the displacement modifier.
@@JoeyCarlino I'll try these when I can sit down at the computer again! Thank you so much! So far everything else is absolutely perfect and I learned a lot from this tutorial!
@@JoeyCarlino It was definitely that I needed to invert the vertex group! Thanks!
Just subscribed, keep up the good work!
That's a good one! Love the procedural stuff. You're a wizard. Keep up the great work!
Jacob's ladder, movie like this - they don't do anymore ;(
I'm having trouble exporting it with a transparent background, it's just the emmission that's not exporting, please help!
This "Toggle Stack" button is a addon? (i'm using 2.93.3)
can i export them with animations and import into UE5 ?
thank you sir
4:09 after hitting CTRLA then 0, hold shift and scroll to adjust proportional size
i came to learn lighting can't understand nothing, need to go slower , i am beginner
Spasibo!!! its that method what i looking.
When I extrude it always goes on a different axis, not z.
wow, 400 to 8.15k. I hope that's a good sign!
how do I make it disappear and appear again? I am very new to blender n I don't how how to animate it. Can someone help?
Now.. how do I import all of this into ue4 without messing up the material XD
My opacity isn't working for some reason. Any ideas?
how to get another top vertex also focus at a stable point
When scaling with proportional editing make sure that the transform pivot point is set to 3d cursor not individual origins.
you saved my ass, thanks
One way to get a super easy thunder bolt is by just using the ivy generator.
this is way to fast my reaction time is not 000000000000.1 seconds
01:43 in my new blender i don't have coordinate e t.c
ok bye
Thank you very much man! It's the best tutorial!
this is the best lightning tutorial ive seen. Thank you!!!
Is there a way to use vertex parents to be able to control where the lightning originates from and where it hits? like lightning coming from one point and striking another? Thanks!
I haven't tried it, but you could probably do this with a hook modifier or some bones and basic weight painting.
@@JoeyCarlino yeah I tried it myself after and using hooked you can animate it striking or just the position of the beginning and end. Thanks!
super, viewers can strike in the middle with that tips
this is absolutely awesome, thank you
Thank You Soo much for this tutorial
just amazing what i was looking for thanks man
Have you got a version of the lightning complete so everyone could download?
Not for free, but yeah, there's a file on Gumroad
great content man!!!
Hello! I'm having a problem Exporting the PNG sequence, as my goal is to take my bolt and composite it onto some real footage. Problem is, Rendering the sequence with a transparent background (which I kinda need for compositing), makes the emission / bloom disappear. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks
Thats a tough one. You might have better luck keeping the bloom if you export it with a black background and then add it on top of your other footage. Add might not be the best blending mode, but it would keep the bloom.
@@JoeyCarlino Well, it sort of works! As far as slapping the sequence onto regular footage, blending it on using add does keep the bolt and bloom. I don't know how different it would be if I could have rendered it out normally (with transparent background) or if it's the same. After hours of scouring for a solution last night, what I can gather is that Eevee doesn't really support emissions like that, and getting it to work is a pain. I would've happily used cycles but It didn't seem to work either. Oh well, the search continues but at least I have this Add blend in the meantime. Thanks!
To go out from the node group press Tab
It's nicely done but if it were completely procedural I would have expected geo nodes or so. Still nice tho 👌
This is my old video before geonodes were around. I actually have a few newer ones made with geonodes. I think I put a link in the description
@@JoeyCarlino ah nice. I didn't notice that 👌
Top tier video. Thank you.
This is a great tutorial so far but I am struggling with the part at 4 minutes where you use ctrl+A with proportional editing on sharp, when I select a single vertex it still changes everything and not proportionally, so setting the first vertex to 0 makes everything 0 and trying to tune it controlling the strength affects all of them equally not the way seen in the video, is there a setting I perhaps missed?
Your area of influence is probably very large. Use the scroll wheel while scaling to make it smaller
@@JoeyCarlino Oh I finally figured it out, did the tutorial 3 times and on the third try I selected 'Connected only' for the proportional editing and it works as intended now, sorry for the hassle
Super cool! Thank you!!
Really great tutorial thank u
Whatever keeps the Demon happy!
this is great thanks for teaching this
this is cool
where can i get like a very brief explanation of blender.. this sits so indepth it makes my mind boggle
Check the official blender TH-cam channel. There is a playlist about getting started with blender 2.8 that is a great introduction.
Wow, great channel, good tutorial! Thank you. Big like!
nice
thank you
fantastic!! thanks
when I made the node group, the factor slot was taken off my invert nodes so I can't plug anything into them, any tips to solve?
10:59 How does " Go Out" translate into what button to hit/where to click?
Tab, or the arrow in the top right
Genius! Thanks.
EXCELLENT across the board. Couldn't be easier to follow. Thank you for this!!!
Great tutorial!
Yes sir this content is very worth producing! Thanks a lot for your time and knowledge! You are great!
nice tutorial
Goodness that was amazing - I am just a beginner but I could follow along - thank you, great tutorial.
my emission strength doesnt make it glow like yours does, any help?
If you're using Eevee, bloom has to be turned on. You won't get it glowing in cycles unless you add it with the compositor.
@@JoeyCarlino you're a legend, thanks!
Could you export this? Like say apply modifiers and export it into a game engine?
Terrific, thank you!
I love it,.
thank you
it’s bonkers how many possibilities this can be applied to. mind. blown.
Clean!
I appreciate the emoji at 8:06 for "turn it to 11" lol, made me chuckle
14:18.....my top and bottom vertex does not stay in place....so when i move middle vertex the whole line moves......can u please help? i did exactly the way u did it....with like the proportional editing n smooth n connected only....i did the exact same thing
Make sure the top and bottom are selected, select the vertex groups and add them, then in the displacement modifiers (all 3) select the vertex group and click the little arrow to invert them.
If you're talking about proportional editing, use the scroll wheel to make the area of influence lower, otherwise, it'll move everything instead of just a few points.
tanks
SOLID
good
I learned a lot of useful stuff in this video on top of learning how to make lightning. Really good tutorial, man. Definitely gonna sub.