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Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

welcome to Nodevember 2021! a celebration of all things procedural.

the website: https://www.nodevember.io
the twitter: https://twitter.com/NodevemberIO

procedural is the fun thing everyone is doing and showing off on twitter, instagram, etc. its about creating things programmatically so you can create different versions of those things by just tweaking a few values

how about an example:
https://i.imgur.com/94j6Nj5.mp4

this is a dumb thing i whipped up in a few minutes, but it demonstrates the point. from a few primitives you can create many variations, and it can be spread across a surface without repetition

its called "node"-vember because popular visual design software such as blender, houdini, touch designer, and substance designer use node-based visual programming languages. of course its not just limited to these programs, and its not limited to nodes at all. some procedural software uses different paradigms, like quixel mixer which uses a stack flow. some people write scripts to integrate into thse programs. as long as its programmatic its good

nodevember is a chance to show off these procedural works. there will be a prompt for every two days of the month, 15 in total.

if you want to join in, great! no effort is too low, no hell fucker too idiotic to try it out. if you have no idea where to start, here is some software that people use

visual:
blender (free)
houdini (free for non-commercial usage)
quixel mixer (free)
touch designer (free for non-commercial usage)
substance designer (adobe :(, find it on steam for $150)
Notch (free trial, no saving)
Shade (iOS) (free trial, $16 after)

audio:
nodal (free trial for 30 days)
WolframTones (free, online)
Bitwig (free trial,no saving or export)

multimedia:
Pure Data (free)
Ofelia (pure data external) (free)

of course if you just download a program you probably won't have any idea what to do. so check out this website, "youtube.com", theyve got all sorts of tutorials over there. if you want to get started with blender i can't re\commend erindale enough, he has tutorials specific to nodevember.

a couple more examples:
https://i.imgur.com/MW6ccCd.mp4
infinitely random checkers boards. the previous video used the new geometry nodes, this is all done with old slow shader nodes

Houdini:
https://i.imgur.com/oUxgtU3.mp4
houdini's entire workflow is done in node networks, it takes just a couple minutes to make a spreading fire simulation like this one

post your nodevember works in this thread! ask for help in this thread! just post in this thread!

previous year's thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3946165

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Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

Prompts!

https://twitter.com/NodevemberIO/status/1454780193143406592?s=20

a bit more abstract this year, so go wild!

wild stuff

https://twitter.com/erindale_xyz/status/1456449211604549634?s=21

wtf

https://twitter.com/vjgegenlicht/status/1456423118977777671?s=21

lovely!

https://twitter.com/amcgi1/status/1456451161435873280?s=21

Jenny Agutter fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Nov 5, 2021

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

reserved

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

reserved

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

jk im hyped. ive been looking forward to nodevember all year. thanks jenny agutter for making the thread

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
:synpa:

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




retired.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

reloaded

Zlodo
Nov 25, 2006
Gonna try doing this. Posting so everyone can laugh at me if I'm my usual lazy gently caress and dont actually do it

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

preemptive 5

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

more like no-vember haha

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

every time i see the term nodevember i assume it's some nodejs hackathon event

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

carry on then posted:

every time i see the term nodevember i assume it's some nodejs hackathon event

i thought it was about doing no software development for a whole month at first

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

fart simpson posted:

i thought it was about doing no software development for a whole month at first

:hmmyes:

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Excited to once again start on a project, and give up 2 hours in.

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl
*kramers into thread*



:black101: the technology of p-

... :yikes:

procedural. the technology of procedural.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

fart simpson posted:

i thought it was about doing no software development for a whole month at first

no dev november. it’s the month we let the program managers figure it out on their own

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
initially read it as no-dev November (like no nut November) and was very supportive of everyone taking a month off from telling computers to do things

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
what happens if you combine no nut november and nodevember

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

carry on then posted:

every time i see the term nodevember i assume it's some nodejs hackathon event

That would be so awful

fart simpson posted:

i thought it was about doing no software development for a whole month at first

That would be so good

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

echinopsis posted:

what happens if you combine no nut november and nodevember

You still get nodes, but they're cancerous ones in your prostate

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
ew I hope they give me super powers

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

uhh, this is surprising imo

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

ive got no idea what to do for the "form" section. "3 sided" lol, all i can think of is a triangle

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

updated second post with prompts.

Jenny Agutter
Mar 18, 2009

fart simpson posted:

ive got no idea what to do for the "form" section. "3 sided" lol, all i can think of is a triangle

here's their explanation
https://twitter.com/LucaRood/status/1454786214259736579?s=20

time to vibe. also these should be much easier for people doing audio stuff

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

Jenny Agutter posted:

time to vibe. also these should be much easier for people doing audio stuff

lol

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

ok i think i have an idea for the first day, and it isn’t just a 2d triangle

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
a three sided chode

Truman Peyote
Oct 11, 2006



within every man there are three wolves. this tool generates NFTs for them

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I “wrote” the entirety of rodrocket with nodes, although I did design the meshes by hand, but other than that pure nodes. not a single texture either.


nodes are the god drat future. I can’t believe they aren’t in the big world of image manipulation yet. using layers in photoshop after using nodes feels like such antiquated technology. nodes make what is happening so obvious. they’re so intuitive. nodes nodes god drat nodes

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


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echinopsis posted:

I can’t believe they aren’t in the big world of image manipulation yet.

get a non-commercial license for nuke

mystes
May 31, 2006

fart simpson posted:

i thought it was about doing no software development for a whole month at first

animist
Aug 28, 2018
idk it might be a good way to avoid all the software development I get paid to do

Archduke Frantz Fanon
Sep 7, 2004


no net november

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

oh my, to go literal or figurative on these prompts.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

i think the intent is to go figurative

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

here’s some entries so far:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jimmygunawanapp/status/1454941130936635393

https://mobile.twitter.com/lateasusual_/status/1454996569174982660

https://mobile.twitter.com/Newmediasupply/status/1455005262079741955

refleks
Nov 21, 2006



can this help you procedurally generate some good posts?

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

this one was cool


I've done one for six sided, but have to wait a days until it can be revealed

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