Blender Simulation Nodes for Beginners! 

Thank you for sahring, great tutorial, keep going!

short and clean, great video - thank you

Excellent, my Friend!! 👍 Thanks for everything 😊

Very Cool! Awesome video

Excellent tutorial process explanation thanks you

Thank you so much! This helps me immensely for what I need to do.

great video! Would be nice to add the velocity into the scale to get it squashing and stretching a bit :)

Very useful. Thank you!!! :)

Best and clear explanation for collider object in simulation nodes!! 💪🏻👍🏻 thank you!

Love how you explain things Robbie! I need to practice more geo-nodes on my own channel :D !

A fun next step is to use the hit normal to calculate the bounce angle then run it on a sloped plane or more complex surface. That, plus damping.

Great stuff thank you Robbie!

Great tutorial! & Thank you for the wish list! \o/ Coupled pendulum! Yeah, that's my wish!:)

This is the stuff that strains my brain the most so I'll need to watch multiple times before I digest the impact of each node in the logic. I am never satisfied just watching someone place the nodes without fully comprehending the variable, within the node tree, that each node or its value has a wide reaching effect upon. I feel I am most messed up by some of the socket names withing the realm of "true" and "false" in a switch node that is fed by a value from an inverse multiplication such as factors of less than zero . My weak brain wants to follow along like my eyes are doing but the: flipping conditional on false status of inversely factored values which equal a state which causes the addition of a velocity etc.......oh man ...lost. But I have a compelling case for the logic functioning fine because the simulation DOES run and I can see it. Being able to tinker with values and having their effect be immediately seen is one of the greatest parts of Blender geo-nodes.

yes

For anyone curious on how to add a texture to the bouncing balls here's how I did it. Add a "Set Material" node in between the "Simulation Output" and "Group Output". Then go into the "Material" settings to add a new material. Then go back to the "Set Material" node and assign it the material you added in the "Material" settings. That should do the trick.

I am trying to create a custom keyframe animation, then instance the animated geo, and trigger the animations (control the timing) based on the instance proximity to a controller object...is this achievable using simulation nodes?

are this technique can be applied on compressing any object?

Nice video. Do you know any way to make the instances place/stack them self in a natural way? i.e. like rigid bodies dropped in a container?

Nice! I tried here and sometimes depending on the distance or accumulated speed of the instance it just goes trough the floor. Why is that and how would you do to overcome this kind of limitation?

nice tutorial! Can I ask you how did you set the material to the spheres ? In my project I'm instancing a collection of objects on points extracted from the volume of the mesh and before the simulation every instance has his right material applied. If I put a viewer node after the simulation loop the materials are gone and the Set Material node applies the material to the entire geometry.

Nice job Robbie. Enjoyed the tut. One thing for me. When rendered, I only get white spheres. Not a coloured one that I have used. Strange. Any ideas?

somehow when I add ball they dont move when I set position....

The instances bounce higher each time, even though my vector math multiply is set to -1. Any idea why that is happening?