Procedural fantasy city creation using Geometry Nodes 

I think you also could start small and then expand the node system over time, so you can always have some procedural tools to work with instead of waiting for half a year b4 you can actually use it.

@@Voxavs Yes absolutely, and just to clarify, that's exactly the process I went through. Creating tools in a vacuum is too abstract for me, and I think it's best to have active goals and problems that you solve as you go along, building up the toolset in the process based on your needs.

5 years of reusability ??? Are you aware of the average time interested per game/creation of the average gamer?

@@zarodgaming1844 yes I am, what are you specifically trying to say? Your ambiguity doesnt bring your point across well .

and it's not even a new concept. Houdini is arround for quite a while and fairly adapted in the industry. The world of Farcry 5 was entirely made in houdini, games like the Ascend are almost completely done there and studios like embark use houdini for their entire artistical creation approach. Why mention houdini and not blender? well. Blender lacks every support by any software for anything possible to do with geometry nodes. The only thing possible to do is creating with geometry nodes in blender, which is a fracture of what's possible with houdini, let alone the nodes themselve.

"TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A KITCHEN, WITH A LAPTOP AND BLENDER "

I like that you have a bright red tomato as a profile pic. Nice.

@@MedievalShortStories Thanks :)

so self-deprecating lol.. super likeable dude :)

Would love to see that if you have a link, friend!

It helps reduce collisions in the namespace, where you anticipate a lot of mixing and cross pollination. In more structured programming settings, they’ll prefix with package names. I guess here, where it’s generally just one person noodling around on his own projects and reusing his own nodes, personal initials come most easily to mind

@@ronaldbell7429 exactly this, and the initial habit comes from working in studios where that's pretty common

Hehe, I hope I was not the only one looking for any ETK nodes there :D

@@taroxsplaylists7960 I couldn't see any either 😭

@@ronaldbell7429 that is all true and valid. I just find it surprising that this did not seem to be that much of a common practice before geometry nodes as it is now. At least from my perception and the people that I know from the blender / procedural community. Also I don’t think the namespace issue is really a thing since blender makes sure that all data blocks in a file have unique names, so there is no fear of overriding stuff (until we get into data linking and library overrides which I think still needs to get figured out properly)

I hated it when I first opened it up 😂 now whe I see my own progress I gotta love it❤

Humblebrag is a staple in these kinds of talks

He was a beginner, when he began. He's not a beginner anymore. And just because he didn't know the one tool doesn't mean he wasn't already familiar with node-based workflows for doing shaders, for example. A lot of those skills carry over. None of this is really that complicated, he just broke down the job into lots of small parts and then put a lot of work into it. His experience as an artist helped him to make good choices as he went.

Over time you can. Anything others have done, you can do better.

There are some great tutorials right here on RU-vid. Just search for Geometry Nodes and tons of videos will pop up. Erindale and Entagma are two great channels in particular. Entagma also does Houdini content, but the Blender stuff is really top notch. I believe both channels offer paid courses or stuff through Patreon, too, but I've managed to learn a lot of Geometry nodes without needing to spend any money so far.

Delete the cube, and add a plane. Then, go to the geometry nodes workspace and create a geometry nodes modifier. Disconnect the Group Input from the Group Output. Click Add > Mesh Primitives > Cube. Set the size to 2m for all three dimensions. Connect the Cube node's Mesh output to the Group Output. You now have a cube.

There are no assets, except a couple of things such as the courtyard and the trees. The top faces of the tower structures are inset/extruded/subdivided to generate the buildings and props from scratch in geometry nodes

the guy who understood nothing at all about he video he's been lookin'at...

if u want similar assets you can look into Kitbash etc.

Blender uses python as it's scripting language just like the UE editor, and I believe other game devs (can't remember which talk) have done auto sync between blend files/libraries and UE projects.

work.

@@hawkfreedom1700 helpfull tnks

The channel Entagma is one you should take a look at. They are Houdini pros who have been working with Blender's geometry nodes since that go introduced. Their assessments of Blender are tough, but quite fair, and come from a place of deep knowledge about node-based workflows. They've been talking about Blender's work in this area since the first version that had geometry nodes, through the redesign in 3.0, and they have been really pushing each version to its limits. But my personal view is that Houdini is definitely more powerful right now, but I'd argue that Blender's interface is a lot better, more intuitive, and frankly more artist-friendly in every possible way. And, Blender's capabilities are catching up quick.

Another John Doe that thinks power is the key to talent...

@@hawkfreedom1700 well i've paid a lot for my workstation 2 years ago and i'm not really satisfied render durations. I was wondering how people could do these kind of much more complex designs than i do and how their computers not blew up. Especially when i compare it with a laptop. power is not the key of talent of course, but blender needs it! thats all.

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