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thats right folks its that time of the year again its nodevember! What is nodevember well I'm glad you asked, it’s a challenge to create 3d computer graphics (or animations, or sounds) procedurally, most commonly using blender or substance designer. These programs havce wat is known as a "node" interface thus the name nodevember. Look at what you can do with this https://youtu.be/JhLVzcCl1ug (check out the description of that video for some free resources to get you started) What are the rules? Check it out here https://nodevember.io/ everything has to be procedural. No sculpting, no image textures, only use basic primitive shapes (sphere, cube, plane) What is nodes? Nodes is basically a term for a graphical programming language. You use inputs like texture coordinates and time and manipulate them with operators. Here is a shader node tree I made in blender  it makes this https://i.imgur.com/XeBtHUl.mp4 That is applied to a basic sphere, no textures no modelling How to do that? Watch this https://youtu.be/8LD5UA_Zktg Ok here are basic concepts Shader: when you render something in a physical based renderer, the shader tells the renderer how light interacts with the object it is applied to. This can be how it is reflected, refracted, what color it is, whether it is emissive, metallic, has subsurface scattering, volumetric absorption, and much more Displacement: you can displace the surface of a mesh just using shaders, i.e. make bumps and creases. This isnt a bump or normal map, this is actual physical displacement. Even crazier now there is vector displacement, which lets you displace a point on the mesh to anywhere, so you can create i.e. overhangs which wouldn't be possible with normal displacement Texture coordinates: the point on a mesh surface that a shader gets mapped to. Its easy to envision on a plane, here are object coordinates  (this assumes some familiarity with blender interaction and navigation) So say we want to make a hill that goes down the middle of the plane, you take your object coordinates, split them into x-y-z components, and apply a mathematical function that's high around y=0 and low at y=+-1. there's no right way to do this, you could use a cos(y) function, or take the absolute value of the y-coordinate then take the fraction component of that and then invert it. Both are valid techniques and produce differeent profiles depending on what youre after  Important to remember: white=higher number, black=lower number. Here the texture is clamped between 0-1 (the little clamp checkbox), so if you apply this as a displacement map you get… nothing. To actually view displacement (you only have to do these steps once) you need to switch the renderer to cycles  Then apply a surface subdivision modifier to your mesh  Then in the material settings set surface displacement to displacement or displacement and bump  And be sure to set your viewport shading to render preview  then you will get your displacement  Awesome! A nice smooth curve with no modeling! Every math node applies a transformation to every point on the texture. If you wanted to make a hill in the middle of the plane, do the same thiung with the x coordinates, then multiply the outputs. The black is at zero so it will cancel out white parts, leaving just a hump in the middle  Where do I go from here? The sky's the limit friend. Want to add some high frequency noise for texture? Just add in a noise or cloud texture. Want irregularly spaced spots of roughness? Use a voronoi texture, clamp it with a map-range node, and feed it into the roughness input in your BSDF shader. Just playing around with stuff is a great way to learn, and ask in this thread and I'll try to help out, also here is a free example file to get you started https://mega.nz/folder/cANlGK7T#274JPM6rJ215srANK6F0gA
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Q: I'm a noob First download blender https://www.blender.org/, then watch this video series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILqOWe3zAbk Q: Do I have to use blendeR? No of course not, another free alternative is quixel mixer. I don’t really understand its paradigm of stacking nodes but it seems fast and fun. If you want to pay but get pro grade tools, substance designer is there for you. You can get the subscription from there website or a one-time paymend on steam. Its owned by adobe so buyer beware. Heck theres even node program for iOS, its called Shade and its free for 14 days or something and you can export your shaders to unity. Node on the go! Q: are there other types of nodes Yes there are, an up and coming node type is "animation nodes" which you can download and install as an blender addon here https://animation-nodes.com/ this is extremely powerful and I have only done some little projects with it so share your findings if you use it! Q: visualizing this stuff is hard Must have add-on: go to edit->preferences…->add-ons and search for and enable node wrangler. Now when you ctrl-shift-click on a node its output will be applied to the mesh so you can see what you're working on Q: I made a nice thing but I want to copy it across my mesh Look in the example file and find the coordinates of cells section. By scaling the UV coordinates and taking just the fractional part of them we get a grid of coordinate systems from 0 to 1. so then you simply subtract .5, multiply by two and blammo you got yourself a grid of coordinate systems from -1 to 1. If you plug this into the vector input for your thing its copied across the mesh! Q: randomization? Easy, again look in the example file at the cell randomizer. If you "snap" (math node) a coordinate system to a white noise texture it gives you a random value ! You can combine this with a grid of coordinates and get random inputs for every cell on the grid. Use multiple randomizers with different seeds for multiple parameters, just copy a 4D white noise texture and give it a new W (this is what they call the seed I don't know why)
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Oct 31, 2020 19:14
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didn't read any of the OP, but I'm glad that node.js is finally getting the recognition it deserves in the pos
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Oct 31, 2020 21:03
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I'm doing Nodvember and becoming addicted to oxycodone op
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Oct 31, 2020 21:05
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echi got hisself a fatty probe but he wanted me to post this https://twitter.com/rodtronics/status/1322645436406984705?s=20
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Oct 31, 2020 22:45
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first prompt wip actually using vector displacement to transform a sphere into a wafer shape, crazy stuff
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Oct 31, 2020 22:56
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I thought this was no dev November and was getting excited about not doing work
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Oct 31, 2020 22:57
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unban echi for his racist posting so that he may participate
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Oct 31, 2020 23:17
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free echi
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Oct 31, 2020 23:38
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The Management posted:I thought this was no dev November and was getting excited about not doing work
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Oct 31, 2020 23:44
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:free echi
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Oct 31, 2020 23:48
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second prompt wip more vector displacement, although I still have no idea what I'm doing with it. pure trial and error
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Oct 31, 2020 23:59
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my bitter bi rival posted:I'm doing Nodvember and becoming addicted to oxycodone op I'm doing Nodvember in the name of Kane! (Kane lives in death!)
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Nov 1, 2020 00:45
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This is cool. I take umbrage with Houdni and Touch designer not being mentioned by the OP but otherwise great idea!
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Nov 1, 2020 05:28
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jesus christ https://twitter.com/chiu_hans/status/1322759452194320386?s=21
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sigma 6 posted:This is cool. I take umbrage with Houdni and Touch designer not being mentioned by the OP but otherwise great idea! please post about your favorite programs! I don’t do this professionally so the pro programs are out of reach cost wise but I’m very interested in what they can do. Houdini has a node system for the entire effects pipeline right?
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Nov 1, 2020 07:33
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I'm glad you can still get the Quartz Composer experience somewhere, I still haven't forgiven Apple for killing off that framework instead of improving on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsxc0xtU_EU
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Nov 1, 2020 10:58
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think i'm going to call it for day 1  https://mega.nz/folder/oI1QVBqJ#wAetVbnFLVOQZLM_PxPK8Q i like the way the chocolate surface turned out, but the shape was pure luck from playing around with rgb curves
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Nov 1, 2020 17:00
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decided to take a different tack with the second prompt
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Nov 1, 2020 22:27
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:unban echi for his racist posting so that he may participate lol
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Nov 1, 2020 22:38
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Jenny Agutter posted:please post about your favorite programs! I don’t do this professionally so the pro programs are out of reach cost wise but I’m very interested in what they can do. Houdini has a node system for the entire effects pipeline right? Yes - they have "operators" / nodes for just about everthing and chaining them together is how VFX shots are created. Touchdesigner is the same - just in real time. In both cases, they have free versions, so cost isn't an issue if you just want to learn.
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Nov 2, 2020 03:55
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day 2 candy https://i.imgur.com/thtJKEC.mp4 https://mega.nz/folder/gdFynbaR#6uo_BCK7MaCmEEykByUJeQ
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Nov 2, 2020 15:35
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sigma 6 posted:Yes - they have "operators" / nodes for just about everthing and chaining them together is how VFX shots are created. innnteresting. might pick up houdini once i get my new computer built. i thought this was sick https://twitter.com/mumblinglewis/status/1323062931085512706?s=20
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Nov 2, 2020 15:38
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this is cool
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Nov 2, 2020 16:40
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prompt 3 wip
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Nov 2, 2020 17:47
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i have the "Write a raytracer" challenge book but recent life developments have put that on the backburner, i look forward to all of your creative works
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Nov 2, 2020 17:50
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vector displacement fun
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Nov 2, 2020 19:05
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Captain Foo posted:this is cool
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Nov 2, 2020 20:37
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Jenny Agutter posted:innnteresting. might pick up houdini once i get my new computer built. i thought this was sick Yeah - Houdni is the one stop shop when it comes to procedual stuff and it does just about everything well except for something like high poly sculpting. Which of course zbrush does better. Definitely nothing like it for particles / fluids and pyro FX. This is a friend of mine who does a lot of work with sound and Houdini. Music In Houdini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spuE1-CS1v0 https://vimeo.com/user36757003 Reel. https://vimeo.com/259748295 sigma 6 fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Nov 2, 2020 21:27
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how to turn a sphere into a banana https://i.imgur.com/kTzYGkK.mp4
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Nov 2, 2020 21:48
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Jenny Agutter posted:day 2 candy this owns
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day 3 fruit https://mega.nz/folder/VEUHyKZQ#jmS23Y22pTIghqvM51FmKg
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day 4 grain https://i.imgur.com/I07xzSt.mp4 https://mega.nz/folder/VRMgDLKJ#F1WWffCnUBqMka0BQ2pYbQ i do wonder if displacement vector shading is getting away from the spirit of nodevember, at some point you're practically modeling in a different form. all of this bread was made with math so i'm not going to lose too much sleep over it
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Nov 4, 2020 17:46
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:thinking: redoing the tutorial donut but entirely in shaders
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Nov 4, 2020 17:56
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this is cool stuff op
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Nov 4, 2020 21:17
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no shade for the shaders
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Nov 4, 2020 22:02
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Jenny Agutter posted::thinking: redoing the tutorial donut but entirely in shaders well I did it. this is a sphere mesh with vector displacement. you can tell where the seams are where a transparent shader is mixed in but I'm not sure how to get it cleaner  https://mega.nz/folder/dIcgUT7B#oNROAPTcvVrHZBBzqsmt8w
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Nov 5, 2020 15:44
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day 6 done. really reaching the limits of my understanding of vector displacement here, the texture coordinates of this sphere got extremely hosed up and I could only do the little bumps on the eraser holder as a bump map
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Day 7 print, didn't have a lot of time for this one so this is using animation nodes to print random letters. https://i.imgur.com/FO2PnPY.mp4
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