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This is because we have replaced our icing mesh with the output from “Distribute Points on Faces”. The icing also appears to have “disappeared”. We need to toggle the density to adjust this, which we will do later. You can see there’s a single enormous “point” sticking to the icing. Hit “Shift + A” to add a new node, then start searching using the search bar that opens: We now need to add a “Distribute Points On Faces” node. I now delete the Geometry Nodes I created for the Donut, and switch to the Icing instead: We don’t want to alter the donut, but rather the icing (we are adding sprinkles). For instance, if we add a “set position” node and add a Z offset, the donut now moves (the output mesh position has been changed): The node on the right is the final mesh, after any changes made by our geometry nodes.

The node on the left (Group Input) reads in the existing data for our mesh (for the donut, in this case). Note that if your nodes disappear, you can get them back by clicking on the “Geometry Nodes” modifier in the right-hand pane: Now, we click on “New” to create a new geometry node setup: We won’t be needing the window in the upper left that shows the positions of all our vertices, so we can close that:

Click on that, and choose “General -> Geometry Nodes”. If you don’t see this, look for a little down arrow near the top right corner of the top menu bar. We’ll create a new Workspace (tab) at the top of blender, which will allow us to see our geometry node setup alongside our donut: This enables all sorts of cool stuff, from the ability to dynamically generate frost or icicles on a surface, to the ability to create buildings whose height, window position, and number of floors are all procedurally controlled. Much like the nodes we’ve used so far to create texture, geometry nodes allow use to procedurally generate changes to the mesh (changes to our objects). In previous versions of the donut tutorial, “particles” were used, but “geometry nodes” are a better option in Blender 3.x. Next, we want to add some sprinkles to the donut. This file is the result of my work after following along with the steps in the YouTube video.

#BLENDER TUTORIAL DONUT DOWNLOAD#

You can download the associated “.blend” file here.

#BLENDER TUTORIAL DONUT PDF#

You can download a PDF copy of this post here.Notes below correspond to this YouTube video.I’ll be making additional notes for each of the videos in the series! It’s really good that you’re practicing a lot – it’s a complex tutorial and the more you explore and practice on your own the better what he’s teaching will stick in your memory so you can transfer the knowledge to making other objects.Just some notes I made while following along with this now-famous blender donut tutorial. I like that Blender has so many ways to do things, even though that can be confusing at the start. It’s always good to know more than one way to do things because sometimes one way works better and sometimes another way, and different workflows feel better to different people. Snapping is more of a thing that you’ll end up using all the time when modeling, especially if you come from the technical side of things and like things to fit together just so. I like the shrinkwrapped one slightly better in this case, just from an artistic point of view, but you had a lot of control over the drips in the second case.Īnd yes, shrinkwrapping will work for many other situations. Looking good – that second icing is a lot thinner, and I imagine you can see situations where that’s a better solution.

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