COLLAB2021 – HQ – Stylized Fantasy Environment

[spikeyxxx]

@blanchsb I’ll have to refine this, but we could use the following idea…

Random per Island gives adifferent number between 0 and 1 for each instance of an Array:

Even simply adding those colors to the Location would already give some variation:

Haven’t updated the .blend file yet, I’ll try and improve this some more, but just add these 3 extra Nodes…

[Shawn Blanch]

Ok so I haven’t gotten to the part where I added the 3 extra nodes @spikeyxxx  but I did have a blast recreating your workflow as I followed along your tut video.

Then I figured out that instancing is definitely going to be a way to go. Tell me what you think of this as a follow-up?

I’ll play around with adding in the 3 nodes after work today. If I can figure this out I definitely want to tackle one of the repeating collections this way.

[Shawn Blanch]

@theluthier I have a REALLY BIG ask Kent (not that you are in charge of the code, but you do know peeps in high vistas)

Is there any way that we can get the linking to posts working again in the forums??? My notifications panel always takes me to the standard webpage on page 1 when I click on someone’s reply from my notifications bar.

We haven’t even started the Collab and are already 3 pages deep in excitement and knowledge. I imagine it will become harder to navigate peoples responses to posts on page 2 when we are always being sent to page 1.

Hopefully the request makes sense.

[Lynnette Adair]

Alrighty! Grandma’s IN…but I want to come out of this alive and still sane. I’m so new at blender I’m still in the incubator. Give me tiny goals – like a blade of grass. Deal?

[spikeyxxx]

Great video! You are so much better at this than I am. I guess I’ll just have to practice more 😉

One thing though:

There appears to be less variation between the boards along the ‘rows’ in the direction of the green lines.

My extra Nodes would of course solve that.

[Keith]

I’m glad you brought it up, cos I’ve got 89 notifications that don’t seem to take me direct to the relevant post! 😃

[Shawn Blanch]

You are so much better at this than I am.

Always so humble is spikeyxxx. I wouldn’t compare myself to your awesomeness. That would be folly, lol. I’ve just been on an array and curve mod trip for the past 6 months. I still have much to learn in this amazing thing we call Blender.

I’m looking forward to playing with the extra 3 nodes and seeing what comes from it.

[Kent Trammell]

Welcome to the team @isildu! I appreciate you being willing to contribute in various categories. From the looks of it we have a spread of interest 👍

[spikeyxxx]

Let’s stop being so old-fashioned, when you say Instancing, I am thinking :

[Kent Trammell]

You know I *FEEL* your pain 😣

I will put in a request to review and improve the forum’s quirks. Though past experience has taught me it’s an uphill battle: One webdev addressing multiple websites and tons of feature requests…it takes a mountain of advocacy for a molehill’s adjustment.

That’s to say I’m preparing myself to deal with the current state and all its annoyances – But try I shall!

[Shawn Blanch]

Crap does that mean that all of my dev work was replaced by 5 nodes?!?

[Shawn Blanch]

I really need to get up to speed on Geometry nodes.

[spikeyxxx]

…by 5 nodes?!?

I used the default Cube as it is. Should I have modeled it into a floorboard, it would be one Node less (the left green Point Scale Node).

[Kent Trammell]

Welcome to the team @lynnetteadair! You will be in good company as a beginner. Plenty of areas in this project of small scope and low-pressure. Don’t worry in the slightest: It will be fun and you’ll learn a lot 🤝

[Shawn Blanch]

I’ll roll with the punches too, just figured I would ask.

I imagine it will get better when we split up in to teams.

I just already know that I am spending quite a bit of time scanning this forum to keep up with posts and it’s already turning into a fun spider web haha.

It’s both a great thing and a bad thing lol.

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