Getting Started with Goo Engine - Key Features 

For disambiguation, Goo Blender has been renamed to "Goo Engine" to protect the Blender trademark! www.gooengine.org Also I forgot to mention that you need Screenspace Refraction turned on for both the material and the scene for Screenspace Info to work! Hope that helps!

Just a little note, the terminator is actually the line separating light from shadow, what you refer to as "terminators" are terminator *artifacts* which are the result of a bug

Can't wait to see more small-scale animation creators/studios pop off from this on RU-vid or making being able to propose their series to streaming services (like Dragon Prince). I know it's probably a little ways a way, but I really look forward to it.

Please submit these code improvements to the official blender as well! Great work!!

It's awesome how much you're helping your fellow animators. Excellent work.

This is insane. Definitely checking it out (in fact I just joined your Patreon!) Looking forward to the other videos showing Goo Engine's features and how to use them! I personally would appreciate a video on how to go about working with textured meshes to get nice shading / lit areas, as well as how to Edit the Normals for an authentic look! Anyways, great presentation, you are very easy to follow and listen to :)

Wow! Trying it this week ! Really thankful for this.

God this shader is so COOL! I REALLY hope you guys will also make some modeling tutorials, assuming you're the guy who made the model you are using! It's really cool looking 🥺🥺🥺

Fantastic! Thanks so much for providing us with this gem of a build

The screenspace info node looks really powerful there !

Just discovered about Goo Engine and I'm really happy about it cuz it's just what I was looking for 😍😭. Keep up the good work!

Okay, this is just exactly what Eevee was missing. Thank you so much for this wonderful build !

I'm downloading this purely for the z-depth thing, I've been losing my mind in anticipation of multi-pass in realtime compositing but now I don't need to wait! Also really cool to see the refraction trick implemented, I use that trick often so it's nice to have it in quick node format.

I'm really glad that a lot of these nodes were added, especially the Set Depth (Z Index) node. A lot of these features used to be composite time only, despite being relatively easy to implement through Shaders directly in runtime. Though that might just be my perspective due to game development, which doesn't let composite on effects at a later point in time.

YOU NEVER GAVE ME A PART 2 TO YOUR "HOW TO RIG ANYTHING" SERIES!!

Omg this is incredible! We can finally make cleaner toon shaded models now, amazing work on this!

This is what many of us need. I don't want to spend hours trying to figure out normals for stylized shading. I want to create my character and then make my piece of still art or animation. I'll gladly pay for the privilege of having someone else do the heavy lifting for the shader so I can go on and create!

Very useful! Definitely be using this in the future!

Thank you so much for providing tutorials!!! 😃🤩💗✨️!

Just subbed on patreon, Imma use the fact I paid money for this as a way to keep trying to figure out how to not suck at animating lol. This fork of blender's looking really cool btw, well done.

Woooo amazing.... Thanks 🙏🏽🙏🏽 one small step for man, but one big step for animation...

It's the Goo man himself!!! I can't wait to learn!

This is absolutely amazing!

Dammit you made me download the whole video at 12:37 at night Btw great work Those shadows look beautiful 😍 🤩

This si the Best project to indie animators, Many successes in this development Professor Good

Gna use this for 3d environments, highlights are perfect and just wat i needed

Pretty cool features, i particularly liked the shapes node, the light groups and the screenspace info thing that works as a lens. The toon shading (sans terminator artifacts) can be done in a minute on default blender, and the world color not affecting things can be achieved easily using a light path node. Oh the "in front" node with a slider was also cool although i don't see myself using it much. I wish some of these were added into normal blender. I don't wanna have to jump back and forth between different builds... but i'll consider it as long as i'm not missing out on some new features that blender keeps putting out

Doing the lord's work

I'm really surprised by how responsive your avatar is. Looks really good!

Really, really amazing!! I know this question may have been asked before but I was wondering: could you perhaps showcase how to use the goo nodes on a model that comes with textures? For example, (for practise) on a Genshin Impact model? ^.^

this is legit such a great guide!!!!

LOVE THIS you just got a new sub

This is totally amazing!

I'm glad that someone made an Blender that allows me to do Anime Stylization to my animations! I'll be using this engine for my Uni Work and I can't wait ^^

Awesome stuff!

Heck yes a goo tutorial!!!

8:45 Yes!! This feature alone has sold me; world lighting was so frustrating to deal with!

This is BIG . Thank You

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro to Goo Engine and NPR (Non-Photorealistic Rendering) 1:24 4 New Major Nodes (Shader Info Node, Curvature Node, Screenspace Info Node, Set Depth Node) 1:54 Traditional Toon Shader vs Shader Info Node - Demo 3:05 Limtations of Traditional Toon Shader 4:10 Shader Info Node Intro 4:25 Shader Info Node - Diffuse Shading output 5:01 Shader Info Node - Cast Shadows output 5:45 Shader Info Node - Self Shadows output 7:18 Shader Info Node - Ambient Lighting output 9:32 Shader Info Node Disclaimers 10:43 Curvature Node Intro 11:15 Curvature Node Default Outputs 11:50 More on Curvature Node Use Cases 12:57 Default Curve Node Settings: Samples, Sample Radius, and Thickness 13:55 Curvatue Node Disclaimers 14:43 Set Depth Node Intro 16:13 Blender Material Settings to Enable Set Depth Node 16:55 Screenspace Info Node Intro 17:40 Screenspace Info Node - View Position Input 18:20 Screenspace Info Node Outputs: (Screen Color + Screen Depth) 20:00 Intro to SDFs 21:07 SDF primitives 22:22 Light Groups Intro 23:15 Light Groups - Create new 23:44 'Use Default Group' checkbox 26:13 Light Group Shadows 27:17 Removing Light Groups 28:30 Conclusion

this is sooooo cool. are you also planning to show how to basically make the shadows (for example for faces) ramp up step by step if this is even possible (I think you mentioned something like that in the tutorial)? I'm working with a lot of models with basically bad face normals and fixing them model by model is a lot of work (I think in UE5 you can add something like that to allow only a number of specifc base shadings for specific materials to remove stuff like weird cheek/nose shadows and just have the shadows step between those 5 shadows)

Cool stuff!

Simping for Goo 😍

This is awesome!

Thanks!

Man I love NPR Render, I also love software development. This is my dream right here taking form (by *not* me T.T )

I AM HERE, READY AND FANSCREAMING!!!

Amazing. It really is! Many of these things I'd love to see in vanila Blender. I'd love those SDF primitives for example - but I'm afraid it's not "basic" enough for the purist devs of Cycles. But mostly your lightgroups! I hope the devs adapt your solution OR follow the simplicity of your solution. (I'm personally a bit afraid that they will over-complicate it when once - in the next few years - they get there and implement it. Have you talked about this specific feature being adopted by them? BTW why did you decide to make it material dependent instead of object dependent? Does it happen often in your pipeline that you have an object with multiple materials and you need one of those materials to be affected by a different light source? For me this would be enough as an object property.

I'm broke, my bad, thought this was gonna be free, back to looking then Maybe one day I'll check it out, looks amazing though and hope people have fun using it

very cool

Amazing work 👍 you made your avatar with blender?

It's awesome

So cool

I’m back I finally finished all 43 videos of the blender fundamentals series it only took most of my day but I’m back.

It looks amazing 😮💫 The only thing in NPR rendering is when we convert diffuse to RGB, the material/object can not react with the color of the light. That reason pushes me to use Cycles toon shader. How can I make a police car have red/blue lights or an explosion with a specific color react to the environment and objects in Eevee? Is it possible with Goo Engine?

This light go-over of the key features of this... side... build I guess, of blender shows how much of a good showmen.... umm, Professor Goo is. Don't know how many takes this took, if any past one, but it felt like a great overview of the side build AND something entertaining to watch/listen to. The different nodes all felt more amazing as they where shown off, and even the light groups (which are just as awesome) had my mind spinning of possible uses. Like! Say you want to have and old Noir scene in your blender anime but making all the little bits and bobs for the shadow of the villain on the wall is too time consuming. NOW you just tie the character to one light group, make sure the wall is going to only cast the shadows from that character and the other lights, and BOOM you've got an eeriy scene that hints at the true ID of the bad...person, without a LOT of extra work. (To be fair I haven't tried doing it so I might be missing a lot of steps but that is the basic idea) I'm honestly going to try and add this build into my learning of blender so that I can either skip over, add in, or alter how I am doing things to allow my projects to flow easier. Also, side note, love how much work you all put into the Professor Goo Vtuber model.

For curiosity's sake, is it feasible to have a node that outputs the light direction? Does Eevee handle lighting in a way that would allow multipass lighting for custom effects, or would that require a new render engine?

Damn, from dillongootoo, to gootorials and now professor goo.

I would pay for a extremely detailed course on how to get the same results as Rukikuri.

Heyo, was trying to figure out how to download, is it with the 5 dollar a month subscription only?

this is cool

❤❤❤

really amazing! but! I'm more interested in how your cartoon character works, was it motion captured in Blender? From translation software, sorry

is there a way i can use your toon shader with cycle engine?

Found out about Goo Engine from the Nameless Road fan animation for Genshin. It looks too good not to try it for myself :)

what is the diffrence between diffuse shading and self shadows outputs in the shader info node ?

Long time no see

for some reason my screenspace info node is not working, but I set it up exactly like the video. Is there a bug and a fix for it? luv ur work

I'm having trouble recreating this. Running Goo 4.0.3. It might be helpful to have a tutorial where you set these up from just a blank slate. Like where did you get those math nodes that are specifically for color?

So if i pay for the pateron once do i get lifetime access to the engine?

do these nodes come with it or do i have to copy the video and set them up myself

These features are amazing!I know it's a little bit different, but will you have a tutorial on how to approach creating characters from Ruki? Or is this maybe something we can ask her in the discord?

How did you make the test character's hair. I tried it but I think the alpha channel is giving me a dark shading on that part of the hair

@Professor Goo What program do you do to automate your lip synch, Professor Goo?

So dumb question i got the goo blender file from git hub. But how do install or turn it on? Do i replace the current blend files with these files or is there a startup file in the goo blender master files

what is the WorldPosition in the Shader Info node used for?

How are you switching between the 2 node groups??

I wish there were more practical tutorials for Goo. Granted, this is most likely a skill issue on my end, but it is a gripe that me and many others have. I like the idea that theres a fork for Blender designed solely around anime artstyle. I think thats great and even have paid on patreon to support and also get access to it. But now that I have goo engine, I'm left stuck thinking....how exactly is this REALLY different from Blender? Like I'm sure it is, but as an intermediate Blender user, just showing me the nodes doesnt really do much in really understanding its potential. Its kinda like the difference between simply telling someone new to blender what the emission node does on paper and showing them that "hey, the emission shader, when combined with color ramp can be used to make a cool anime shading effect like this, in this anime scenery project". Very hard for me to type down the feeling, but I think the analogy may help get what I mean across. Ive been looking over utube for like a tutorial with someone using goo engine for a project and explaining their process and why they use certain nodes and what they do, and only really found 1 (shoutout to ApexOcity), and in the comments, theres people with similar gripes, that Goo engine is cool but there isn't much tutorials or guides, so its hard to transition from Blender to it, so I dont feel like its just me. I also know people in anime Blender discords that when asked about goo, say the same thing: looks powerful but not alot of guides for it so don't see why they should move to it from regular evee blender. I'm sorry for the long read, and I hope I dont seem disrespectful or anything of the sorts. I do respect your goals and your drive to make a version of Blender thats more geared towards NPR and anime style, especially as thats what I love doing on Blender. I just wish there were more useful resources that helps me and many others understand Goo engine and make it less difficult to use

Things Ive learned from this video 1.cast shadows

Can’t find the “add” under toonshader with default nodes. There’s a few adds but they don’t have the same attributes as the one on screen. Idk what to do.

I wonder if there is a way to replicate this same sort of shader technique or a similar method for Cel shading in unity or unreal engine.

How did you make the narration face animation realtime? Little guidance on that would also be great. Thanks!

hey do you think you could make a tutorial for doing hair highlights, like the one for your character model that shows up in the bottom left of the video?

quick question, can i use it for baking?

Question, does Goo Engine have the option of having 3 shades instead of 2? I'm looking for something similar, but for my project I need 3 shades of color rather than 2.

Why can't I see the object's material through perspective when I perform the 15:36 operation? All goo versions from 3.6-4.00

Amazing lipsyncing, Upvoted for just that :)) How did you do that?

hi prof. goo! Great content and nice engine btw. Just wondering if this is available on mobile?

How do you make the character and how did you make it work?

I have downloaded the pre-complied version on Patreon but I can't seem to get it to open in Blender. I have been going to preferences and installing it as an add-on but I never see any of the new nodes. I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Is there any way to use curvature as black outline? Can't find a way to make it black and mix it into a toon shader from the video.

Off topic but what do you use for your animated character here in video… animaze?

I wish there was something like light groups for volumetrics

Niceeeee

How do you install it from the github ? Thank's a lot

Heyo! I downloaded it, im just a bit confused because i don't really know how to install it, is it like an addon or do i have to do different steps?

Hello Mr Professor Goo ^^ i wanted to ask if that version is allredy for 4.0 in Blender avalible Best Reguards Herr Keks ^^

Would it possible to convert the shader information of this build to game engines like UE5?

This was on eevee right? also you should showcase an example on using lightgroups for hair so it doesnt cast shadows on the face but it shows corrct shadows on the ground.

I built the goo engine blender on M1 Mac, but as soon as I switch to sharing it crashes. Any solutions?

Hello Mr. I'm Rizuki. May i ask you something? How can you record with 3d Model? Can i do it for Livestream? Pls give me the answer, i need it for my Livestreaming as a Vtuber... Thank you 🙏🏻